A note to my "faithful readers"

The Ant has been dormant for a variety of reasons recently, some of them "logistical". A major factor in this is that the premier blog lister of China blogs, http://www.chinablogs.com/, has still not provided Ant Farm with a slot on its site, thus leaving me a mere voice in the wilderness. (I satisfied their listing criteria some time ago; a blog over a month in existence consisting of at least 20 postings, but for some reason they have not seen fit to enroll me as of yet). Consequently, after a little over two months of running this blog, the lack of traffic that has come Ant Farm's way has been less than overwhelming. I intend to gut it out.

All the same, I have to admit, it's taken a little steam away from my initiative. Nevertheless, I am willing to be patient and slog through the tunnels of the Farm with this blog. One more item should be added to this, and that is that Blogspot.com is a victim of Operation Golden Shield: the CPC firewalls Blogspot. I am looking into finding a different blog provider that can get me into the Middle Kingdom (preferably for free). In light of that, I will change the URL to simply Ant Farm(something I have been wanting to do for a while); no longer will it be known as Chinese Ant Farm. I am going to tone down the rhetoric here in order to be a fair and decent sort, like I really would like to be someday. Further, I will also being taking aim, as promised, at America. It's hard, and always has been, to be self-righteous toward China when my own country is hell-bent.

The second reason I have been laying back is that things are generally going slowly in China. Of course, the tainted baby formula fiasco has been an international issue, but things like that are pretty much par for the course with China. Seemingly, the only "internal innovation" that they can acheive is to have a couple of bonehead factory owners determine that it's possible to beef up the protein content of baby formula by adding melamine. Rather apparently, the same was true of pet food. You gotta tap your forehead and say, "smart, real smart that". Sincere condolences to all the families in China that have suffered from this unconsciounable stupidity.

Lastly, the U.S. finacial crisis and the election is simply front and center on the world stage at this time. Although the above is somewhat out of the purview of this blog, I am going to be weighing in on it in my next posting.

Forward Ant, March!