Trying To Connect The Dots

I suspect that one of my greatest blogging flaws might be my tendency to eschew very limited-scope and highly-focused blogposts.

I submit that this is an area where, for example, Texas Fred absolutely excels, hence his great popularity. He has found a blogging formula that is sharp, focused, logical and popular: identify a specific topic or individual story, feature its source, provide the requisite links, then weigh in with salient commentary that either supports or negates the primary point.

It is, frankly, an excellent model for a blog. You may not realize it, but that's precisely what Texas Fred does on a daily basis. That's his model.

I admit my flaws up front: I wish I could do this. Focus like a laser beam. But the way my brain is patterned, I find myself primarily unable to strictly limit my posts in a Texas Fred kind of way. And therein I have to publicly recognize the success of TF as opposed to the "hit-and-miss" nature of my own microscopic address in the Blogosphere.

I just find it so damned difficult to narrow my focus whilst my brain literally explodes into any number of -- what I consider to be -- tangents from an original theme.

I guess I just can't lock in on a limited topic. Perhaps it's what people now call ADD. Back "then," it was called "just being a boy." Perhaps I am simply undisciplined.

Which brings me to now:

It's time that I try to identify how there are so many national and global "dots to connect."

In DC, the Demorats are like "girls gone wild." One party Demorat said, literally, "fuck the president"; another (Rep. Jerrold Nadler of N.Y.) said "we can't trust him."

House Demorats completely rejected out of hand Mr Obama's tax deal with the GOP (Whip Count here).

Further, Demorats decided to shelve -- at least for a while -- the DREAM act.

On the other hand, what was the final GOP count from the November midterms?

Final House Race Decided; GOP Net Gain: 63 Seats.

These are truly tumultuous times, America. . .

And they are, in my opinion, about to get bloodily violent.

BZ

P.S.
Question for my dearest readers:

Should I take a tip from Texas Fred and other bloggers who more closely focus their blogposts? Are my individual posts too wide and too unfocused -- as to my current themes?

Is it time to abandon my scattershot model and more narrowly focus my posts?

Would you want to read more narrowly-focused posts?