by Randal Matheny

I was checking our visitor stats and saw that we had not a few hits from people querying the search engines for "W magazine Lauren Bush." Apparently some relative of Pres. George has made her 15-minute splash on the media.

I have no idea what W Magazine is, but on the old Forthright site, I had posted a kind remark about the magazine from a Lauren Bush from Florida. She is almost certainly not the same of the frenzied search. So take away the "W" from the search query, and Forthright showed up in the list.

I hope people found what they weren't looking for.

by Randal Matheny

Okay, it's confession time. I can't keep up with everything there is to do. So here goes a renewed effort to keep Forthright alive.

If it weren't for Barry Newton, I'd have thrown in the towel. In the midst of an ill-fated fund-raising effort, he has still managed to faithfully send articles, not all of which I have gotten sent through the email list.

So we're going on-line.

Just in time, too. Topica is forcing ads on everybody.

Each author will be responsible for posting in his column on his day of publication.

We'll try to keep you informed by the Topica email list of new articles. But don't let that keep you from checking in regularly and adding your two bits here or on the Encouragement Forum.

The content is as good as ever. But now it's more dynamic, sharper, quicker. Like a two-edged sword.

For a straight path,

Randal