Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:50:52 PM
I reluctantly announce that I am moving. From now until further notice, the new posts of The Playful Walrus will be at
http://playfulwalrus.blogspot.com Please join me there and bookmark, follow, etc. and comment. I will continue to contribute at
The Opine Editorials, too.
I did not make this decision lightly. I like Townhall. I was the original Townhall.com user blogger, posting the
first entry Wednesday, July 05, 2006 at 12:42:34 PM. It was exciting to be part of the new Townhall.com, which was energizing people with conservative ideas. One of my entries was published in the first or second issue of
Townhall Magazine. Some of my stuff was read on top national talk radio shows (including what was the #3 show at the time). I was featured on
the page dedicated to the user blogs. That page hasn't been updated in ages, which is a symptom of why I am moving. I have also garnered the attention of Leftists, gender confusion types, and marriage neutering advocates, who have cited me as they wailed and gnashed their teeth. I even got an award from one.
As I said, the page dedicated to user blogs hasn't been updated in ages. This is a symptom of why I am leaving: a lack of support for the user blogs. There used to be someone on staff dedicated to us, but I don't think that has been the case in a long time. My e-mails through the
Contact page have gone unanswered. I have wanted to make changes to this blog and haven't been able to due to some technical issues. A change in format on the Tipsheet, the columns, and other content no longer means when we comment, someone can click on our username to see our blog. So traffic suffers.
It looks as those most of my fellow bloggers here have abandoned their Townhall blogs for other venues. I am on
Facebook and
Twitter, and I'd hoped that changes would be made here so as to connect our blogs to such sites. Since it hasn't happened yet, I'm going to a venue that does.
Please join me at the
new location, and on Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you for reading, and thanks to Townhall for giving me a soapbox for all of these years.