Good morning!

Since Harvey retired — oh, here’s a reminder to hit the “Helping Out Harvey” button in the sidebar — we’ve been trying to come up with a way of keeping content available to you, the Loyal Reader and Most Exalted Member of the Society for the Nuking of the Moon.

For the last several years, Harvey carried almost the entire load at IMAO. Frank’s family life — and his jobs to actually put food on the table for his family — have taken most of his time away from this blog that he started so many years ago. Harvey did the heavy lifting.

Along the way, I came along and contributed a thing or two here and there. Most of my work with IMAO has been behind the scenes, keeping updates in place, and solving issues such as countering hackers and the like. My own personal blog has gone to practically nothing, and my online contributions here are slight.

Oppo has taken up the challenge of writing the most posts, and it’s been quite a challenge for him. He came on board as an occasional contributor, but with Harvey’s retirement, he has stepped up and kept the posts coming. He had to go from “how do you log in to WordPress” to being the primary face of IMAO in practically no time at all. He has my respect and utmost thanks. He deserves yours, too.

Not wanting to leave Oppo with the load that Harvey pulled over the years, I’ve tried to contribute some more. Of course, with my life and work — I have a life, believe it or not, and yes, somebody actually pays me for showing up; go figure — it’s difficult. I don’t have quite the responsibilities Frank has — all of my children are grown — but I don’t have anywhere near the talent Frank has either.

I’ve continued to post nightly Open Thread posts. They’re not as popular as they used to be and I’m uncertain how much longer we’ll keep them. I’ll talk more about those some time during an Open Thread post.

I’ve added a daily Time Machine post. A blast from the past, if you will. Harvey wanted to share some of the older posts, and I’ve been doing that.

And, I’ve added these morning posts. Which I finally get around to talking about.

On special days — there’s one coming up next week, for instance — I’ve often posted something about that day. I’m just posting stuff to open the day. If I have something to talk about, I intended to do it there. But, when I don’t have something to talk about, or if I’m in a hurry or just don’t have much time, I decided to post something about the day in history. Well, it’s turned into pretty much just that. It wasn’t the intent going in, but it’s become that.

The downside is that there’s no funny stuff most of the time. It’s just historical stuff. Which is cool, but doesn’t really fit the whole theme of the blog: conservative humor. Yes, most conservatives have a love and appreciation of history, but there’s not a lot of humor in many things from history. Jerry Lewis tried with the holocaust, and that didn’t work well. (Okay, it wasn’t a comedy film, but it did have Jerry Lewis as a clown, so I’m counting it.)

Anyway, I’m not certain if I should keep doing history stuff in the morning. I’m taking this morning to talk about stuff here on the blog, and despite all that background stuff at the beginning, isn’t really history. I didn’t even mention that it’s the anniversary of the end of the Apollo program.

I just wanted you to be aware that I’m not really sure how to start the day. There’s not a lot to be said for waking up with me in the morning. Just ask my ex-wife.