So there is this thing called the "Blogosphere Eco-System' run by the NZ Bear. It measures the number of hits you get and delcares where you sit in the 'whole scheme of things'. I don't know where RNS sits, and frankly, I don't rightly care. We have some good folks who stop by and read and comment and that is just fine with me.

Well, it seems that there was a guy named Barry who had multiple blogs he listed under the auspice of 'The League of Liberals' and each of them had their own counter but also collected the hits off of all the other blogs. This gave him an unnaturally large amount of hits, you see. NZ Bear found out about this and became unhappy and stripped off all of Barry's other blogs, leaving only his main one "Rush Limbaughtomy".

I found all this out while visiting my favorite new left of center blog 'Speedkill'.

I have deduced that the left has come up with a new form of arithmetic called "Progressive Math" and have determined that the method Barry was using to count his hits is the say formula that International ANSWER uses to count the attendance of it's "Hate America" rallys.

What do you think?

I am currently trying to figure out the formula. As soon as I do I will update this post.

UPDATE: I believe that I have discovered the secret to 'Progressive Math'. Now, there are a number of differrent formulas out there that depend on the application. The 'Demonstration Formula' (which is what we will focus on today) is going to be different than say, the 'Blog Formula'.

But nevermind that, let's get down to the numbers. Now, I tried to be fair here, so no shooting the messenger. Besides, he shoots back.

Here is the basic formula:
A/BxC+D+ExF=G /(MxN/O+P/Q=R) = V

A = The number of people that you wanted to show up = 1,000,000
B = The number of people who actually showed up (this number is always rounded up to the nearest thousand) = 10,000
C = The number of speakers you had = 30
D = The number of times Bush was called a Nazi or Hitler by those speakers = 500
E = The number of signs declaring Bush is either a Nazi or Hitler = 6500
F = The number of speakers who included the name �Haliburton� in their speech = 20
G = The Whole number AKA the number of people who, if they had shown up, would have made you quite happy = 200,000

M = The average age of an ANSWER board member = 45
N = ANSWER board member�s self-appointed IQ = 200
O = The number of tables/stands that were selling �The Little Red Book� = 20
P = The number of �Little Red Books� the sold = 350
Q = The number of people who do not read past the first 10% of those books = 200
R = The Mean number (it is called this because it is mean to the Whole number) AKA The number of good looking women at the demonstration = 4

V = the number you tell the press

Please, if you feel that there is something I forgot to take into account, leave me a note in the comments. This is very important scientific research we are conducting here folks. All contributions will be taken into consideration.