The Redel Traub Reports Celebrates its 1 Week Anniversary

If someone had told me on December 1st that a little more than a week later I would have the single most popular blog on the internet, I probably would have thought they were crazy. On further reflection, I'd realize they were crazy, crazy like a fox. All the ingredients were there, the internet was hungry for a change and conventional news sources were lacking. The NYTimes had recently set up a paywall, the Huffington Post had devolved into a source for nude Lindsey Lohan pictures, which coincidentally can be found here: http://www.holymoly.com/celebrity/pictures/lindsay-lohan-playboy-uncensored-pictures-are-here60808. Suffice it to say that the internet was in need of a ground breaking and uncensored voice.

Well after our first full week here at the Redel Traub Report, we would like to give thanks for our loyal readers who faithfully hang on our every word. We've had a lot of laughs, and some tears, at The Report, but fundamentally it is you, our loyal readers, who validate what we do here. Again I'll offer an analogy to the Buddhist Koan about a tree falling in an unmanned forest, if groundbreaking, insightful, and hilarious posts on the internet go unread does it make a difference? A week ago I felt as though I was destined to be a Van Gogh type, an undisputed genius, who is shamefully unrecognized in his own day. I'd been drinking a lot of absinthe and considered cutting off my ear, but instead I created a blog. One wonders what a lot of history's misunderstood geniuses would have done had they had the opportunity to blog. Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald would have been busy blogging about his disdain for JFK on that fateful November day in Dallas. Perhaps Thich Quang Doc, the Vietnamese monk who immolated himself on a crowded Saigon intersection, could have voiced his opposition to the Diem regime in a way that would've been just as heated, though not literally. We are truly blessed to live in a time when anyone can express themselves freely, though probably with less skill than your humble blogger.

So consider this a hearty 'thank you', from all of us here at the Redel Traub Report. And consider this an equally hearty 'You're welcome,' I've given you so many insights and witticisms in the span of just 11 short posts. So here's to looking back on a great week, and looking forward, in our minds eye, to the truly great future we believe we have.