An executive decision

As of today, I will no longer be posting a Mark Madness segment to this blog.

It's not that I've stopped being a fan of Mark Steyn's. Far from it.

I started the Mark Madness segment during that whole 'BC Human Rights Tribunal' brouhaha a year or so back, as a way to keep up with all of the buzz surrounding the Macleans case and trial, and the coverage, although along the way I included videos of Mark speaking here or there, links to his writing, etc.

And as the days and weeks went by, the Mark Madness segment evolved, as most things do when you repeat them over and over again, and streamlined. I linked to anybody that I could find who was talking about Mark Steyn, in any context, concerning any topic, and I followed his website, linking to the writings posted there, to his blog, to NRO's The Corner, and so forth.

But, as you can imagine, while this didn't require a huge amount of effort on my part, it still took up its fair share of my blogging efforts and energies. And while I enjoyed putting together the segment, and having that segment linked over at the House of Binks, I think it's time that I put an end to this particular running segment, and this particular throwback to much earlier blogging days.

It wasn't terribly long ago, after all, when I was running three such segments: The Levant-Jaunt, the Iranian Fun, and the Mark Madness. I seem to have an affinity for just straight-up linking to other people, without adding any content of my own...

Iranian Fun was the first to go, followed, somewhat regretfully, by the Levant-Jaunt. Now it's time for the Mark Madness segment to go the way of its deceased brethren.

And I will still be posting on Mark Steyn, on this blog, and I will still be posting his latest material, and perhaps even some of the commentary directed his way, to the Mark Steyn Fan Page on Facebook, which I run ( yeah, I'm a fanboy - deal with it ). Not to mention that I'm still running the blog Defend Geert Wilders, which was essentially created to be a news aggregator for all things Geert Wilders.

So, anyway. I posted the last Mark Madness today, so...that's that. I hope y'all enjoyed it while it lasted. I know I did.

Cheers.