The secret of attracting traffic to your website? Don't update it for a while, then hope that political events produce a demand that only your neglected Internet presence can provide!

Thanks to the expected addition of James Carville to the Kerry/Edwards catastrophe campaign team, the right-wing troublemakers at Free Republic and other discussion forums brought over 2,000 hits yesterday to this entry. They're only posting the image, of course, not headlining their message with "Michael Genrich is the most striking political satirist of our time, and this picture proves it!" Which, by the way, I really don't think is too much to ask them to do.

Note to the Kerry campaign: bringing Carville and Begala onboard at this stage of the campaign will be about as helpful as ordering another pitcher of Pabst Blue Ribbon after you've already retched the last three into the bushes. It reeks of bad judgement and bad taste.