Last Saturday, Shout Bits passed the one year milestone, and this blog would like to thank everyone who has read and commented on the work. About 7500 people read the blog over this time – not too shabby for a fledgling effort from a no-name author.
Interestingly, the most popular entries were not the ones reporting new information (like the banned books http://www.shoutbits.com/2008/07/read-banned-books-if-you-can-find-them.html, or DNC http://www.shoutbits.com/2008/08/liberal-lies-in-mile-high-city.html entries). Comments on current topics were far more popular (the GM boycott was the most popular by far http://www.shoutbits.com/2009/05/boycott-gm.html).
Popular or not, the goal was to offer the libertarian free market perspective. Even when Shout Bits agreed with the conservative position, it was often for a different reason than given by GOP mouthpieces (like the blue law entry http://www.shoutbits.com/2009/03/blue-laws-kill-jobs.html). Unlike fellow pundits that only sought to fight the cultural battle, Shout Bits offers a different viewpoint from the Red / Blue framework.
Some people have asked whether Shout Bits will run out of ideas for its blogs. Considering the many thousands of people who work each day to formulate new ways to destroy the system that has created the America we know, there no lack of new topics on the horizon.
Even though the evil and stupidity coming out of Washington lately is worse than the evil and stupidity of the past, there is always reason to hope. The free market grows around the barriers to freedom imposed by the unproductive political class. Even though Obama may kill off entire industries like drugs, finance, manufacturing, and anything dependent on energy, the US has often reinvented itself and thrived. Furthermore, by attempting to do more, Obama may achieve less of his evil agenda (http://www.shoutbits.com/2009/06/will-senate-be-obamas-waterloo.html).
Finally, a few people have asked about the image at the top of the blog. It is titled “White Wedge,” and is a takeoff of the 1919 Lazar Lissitzky lithograph “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red_Wedge. Back then, the prevailing opinion was of classical liberalism, signified by white. The red wedge was meant to signify the unity of the Bolshevik minority. Today, most of the socialist agenda has been achieved through Democrat activism and Republican complicity, making the majority red. Free market thinkers are now the unified opposition, or “white wedge.” Shout Bits works to be part of the white wedge disrupting and fighting the socialist assumptions common in politics, the media, and education. Wish us luck.