The Smallest Minority

I was going to say that reading your site in Red China sounds like a good way to wind up in prison.

Which means you're doing something right :)

The search words of "crave coeur post office" caught my eye. Perhaps he meant "Creve Coeur Post Office"?

Creve Coeur is one of a great many municipalities in the St. Louis area, where I lived for way too many years. Why would he be searching for a Post Office there?

From my personal experience, sometimes I remember only some keywords about info I want to retrieve, and thus end up using weird search strings.

I always hope in a viral spreading of the ideas of liberty around the world (we need more of that in Europe too), but it seems to be a hard struggle - especially among Arabs/Muslims.

The Chinese I've known adapt pretty rapidly instead.

"Nice to know that TSM has a small, but international audience."

Small? With 600,000+ visitors?

I haven't made 600 yet, and I always thought the English were the masters of the understatement.

It's not 600,000+ visitors. It's the same 3-400 over and over and over again, with a couple hundred-thousand once-only's.

A repeat audience of 3-400 isn't exactly Newsweak's circulation.

That's a fair point, but 3-4000 repeat visitors is still very good.

It might not be amongst the top ranking sites by numbers (but I really don't know), but I find your writing and argument to be excellent quality. I think though that in general (and it's a pity) the average reader isn't too bothered about such writing.

Also remember you are writing on your own and writing part-time and whilst this doesn't detract from the quality, it does mean you might not offer a range of differing articles in a day to attract different types of reader.

Anyway I still think it's good going.

Small Minor;

Hey, maybe you should get a translator so you can give the homeys in China a "shout out!" in their native tongue.

Regards;

Considering how badly translation engines handle closely related languages, I'm guessing that all you did was confusing the poor fellow :)

Regards from Iceland, where reading TSM is still legal...

Greetings to Iceland, where I'm really glad you grok English and don't have to depend on Babelfish!

I travel to China often, and that's kind of interesting, since the entire Blogspot domain is banned in China. I wonder how he did that?

Apparently if it's translated by Google, it doesn't count as a Blogspot hit, best I can figure.

I wonder if that shows a chink in the armor. After all, they have that special Google over there now, so if the special Google can even return a hit on a banned domain (also owned by Google)there's something not right.