Friday, December 23, 2016

And Then I Discovered Silas Scarborovnik is the Reason

The basis for the enormous numbers of hits to Ithaka has never been clear but there will periodically  be huge numbers of them originating in Russia.  Those hits didn't much affect the individual read counts for articles so it seemed they were always using a generic link to Ithaka which will accept whatever comes (i.e. http://searchingforithaka.blogspot.com).

Note:  that is the best way to do it since otherwise you will only see the articles which others pop to the top via What's Hot and that's essentially the Ithaka Mainstream.  You already know the best stuff is hardly ever what the mainstream chooses.  Mystery Lady has known that from the start and blows straight past anything political while those ones almost always go to the top.


It turned out there was a purpose to reading the entire blog every time since it was all being translated to Russian and being uploaded to Moscow's own Searching for Ithakanov and it's being prepared by Silas Scarborovnik.

Yes, now the world knows:  the Russians invented me.


Ed:  you know some Trumpadoodle will believe this bullshit, right?

I care.  Really.  Trust me on this (larfs).

Actually, the Bush drones are more likely to take it since they will spout crap about Russia even when they know it's false and often the most when they know it's false.  The Trumpadumpers are fairly hip to it and they made it clear there's no future for those ones except as cling-ons.  As to generic racism, Trump doesn't even approach Mitt Romney.  When you have the entire Mormon religion committed to their overt racism, you couldn't find worse monsters if you fetched prison guards from Angola in Louisiana.

In fact, the Trumpadumpers humiliated the Old Guard Republicans about the much as the Democrats who threw Clinton into the dumper ... and it was just fine to watch.  Bush was another who thought he was the Once and Future King but it was clear after that trouncing he now couldn't even get a gig as a judge for the Westminster Dog Show.

Ed:  Westminster is a difficult and prestigious contest!

Yah, so what makes you think Bush would be any more qualified for that than he has been for anything else.


So that explains why all the hits from Russia and why they are, at least for now, relatively quiet.

Ed:  they will need your music if they will go live with Searching for Ithakanov!

Well, comrade, no-one (sob) really needs my music.


That doesn't explain the diminution of reads of Ithaka overall so the working hypothesis is we lost the Clintonistas as well.  Maybe they were hanging about either to get the last I Told You So when the Electoral College was turned around in favor of Clinton or they just wanted to see Ithaka relent / repent / accept Jesus into its heart.

Ed:  the Clintonistas split?

Maybe so, comrade.

Ed:  this isn't a lament, is it?

Nah, they come, they go.  I don't get paid by the hit.

Ed:  you don't get paid at all!

Ain't dat a sad fact, Jack.

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