Welcome to Free Republic.
Now, to the business of being a good Freeper...
Don’t excerpt your own blogs. Others on this site will accuse you of blog-pimping, which none of us like, nor is it necessary.
If you are going to excerpt, perhaps you could include enough to at least start getting to the point of the headline - and I would think that you should be able to do that within the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.
I’m just saying...
I used to admire you greatly, but that was from a long distance away.