Doing My Part for the USofA

This is a screenshot from the website that monitors the traffic to my blog. This is a slice of how most people end up there. I would like to say that most people that go to AOTL are adoring fans, and there are adoring fans, but they do not make up the majority of click-throughs. Most people who visit AOTL end up there as a result of image searches. It has therefore become key that I keep my posts picture rich.


I know a little something about image searches on the Internet because that is how I get the great majority of photos for my posts. That is how I got the picture for this post here about newly anointed Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (shouldn't his name be Kim Jong Dos?). It turns out I'm not alone in my web search for photos of the Jonger. According to the last entry in the log above, the U.S. State Department did a little search of their own. Or should I say U.s. Department of State, as it registers on statcounter.com. 


This State Department entry opened up the rolodex of questions in my mind. Why would the State Department need to trawl the net for pics of the Jonger? Can't they get some from the CIA? Is the CIA tired of giving pictures of world leaders to the State Department? Isn't the State Department in D.C. as opposed to Arlington, VA as indicated in the log? Is this some fraudulent outfit instead of the real State Department? If it was the real State Department, did they use the picture from my blog? Did they read the post? Did they like it? Did they read other posts? Will they become regular readers? Was it Hillary Clinton?


These questions ran through my mind in the span of a second. I don't want to seem as though I was obsessed. It did inspire this post though. I'm grateful to anything that can add a little levity. Between the deferred justice for a gunned down black teen, and rich Republicans who are beside themselves that they got richer while there was a black Democrat in the White House, levity helps. It's all about the funny, and the State Department checking out my blog for pictures of the Jonger is pretty funny... to me.