Coming soon, maybe: a new Swina?

So I've come to the conclusion that this website has turned to crap. Not just because of my neglect as a webmaster and blogger but because the content management system on which it's built is held together with pony spit and wishes.

Some time ago I mentioned a new Swina offshoot, and it's currently up and running but a work in progress.

It's Open Road's Best of Las Vegas Blog, the online companion to the travek guide I'm co-authoring with gambling expert Avery Cardoza.

On the Best of Las Vegas blog, you'll find bonus reviews, updates, and information on casino promotions and all the other juicy Las Vegas gossip that my editor would have nixed out of the print edition. He did however let my dead hooker buried in the desert joke slide through.

Viva Las Vegas.

So this brings me back to Swina...

At the suggestion of Jathan, I implemented WordPress as the CMS behind the new blog, and so far I love it. I haven't started adding on the plugins or customizing the look and feel the way I want it, but so far it's a simple system and a joy to work with.

Once I get the BOLV Blog up and running, I will evaluate whether I can in turn rebuild Swina.com using that as the engine for the site. I've already got headaches aplenty with just the idea of the migration, but it's better than this piece of crap.

On the Foley scandal, aka Masturgate...

I had a whole big long enraged post written up about the failure of leadership in the Republican party through this cover-up, and how this scandal has legs because while Americans don't grasp the nuances of Jack Abramoff and are tuning out Iraq, but everyone knows what underage boy-fucking is, and unless you're Debra LaFave, there really isn't any way to put a pretty face on it.

...but this damn faltering piece of shit content management system pretty much ate it.

So instead I leave you with a joke.

Q. Why don't Republican congressmen use bookmarks?

A. They just bend over the pages.