Readership Statistics

Total number of readers: 27,815 as of February 10, 2020.

This blog does not have as much readership as my other blogs, but I want my readers to know the names of the most popular essays so that they can find them with the help of these links, read them, and send links to these essays to their friends.

When I started this blog, I intended it to have shorter essays that could be read easily on "mobile devices", including personal digital assistants like the Blackberry, shown on the left, which was very popular at that time.  I tried to accomplish this goal by copying some of my most popular blog pages on my other blogs, while reducing the number of photos and videos that were on these pages.

As a blog author, I have access to some analytical information about my blogs.  That information includes the names of the operating systems that are being used to read these pages.  When I looked at the analytical information for this page, I discovered that "mobile devices" weren't being used by a majority of the readers of this blog, so I "rededicated" this blog to shorter, more "lightweight" essays.

I have a separate page on this blog that lists the 20 most popular essays on all six of my blogs combined, but this page is dedicated to the essays on this blog.

This update was made on February 10, 2020.  The last update was made on June 22, 2018.

The ten most well-read essays on this blog

Name of Essay	Readers
My 20 most popular essays	2,801
Two of my seven blogs have most of the essays, and
those two blogs also get most of the readership.
This blog page lists the 20 essays, on all of my 7 blogs,
that have the largest number of readers.  However,
this page also lists the four most well-read pages
on the other five blogs, including this one.
Boycott the National Football League on Veteran's Day	2,016
This page mentions Alejandro Villanueva, who was an
Army Ranger and until recently, a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers.  Because he stood for the National
Anthem prior to a September 2017 game, when his
teammates were all in the locker room, the sales of
his football jersey skyrocketed.  I quoted one story
and linked to 16 other stories about this event.
My Twitter information	1,437
This page includes a statement of my standards for
retweeting messages, and it also includes a list of some
of the people who follow my Twitter account, including
members of Congress and past presidential candidates.
Voter identification prevents voter fraud	1,115
This essay compares voters in the United States with
voters in other countries, including India and Mexico,
that must show identification when they vote.  India
has over a billion people, yet their voters all have an
identification card, and Mexican voters also have them.
Now you know why college is so expensive	744
This blog page was inspired by a photo of a U.S. Senator
who is a hypocrite.  The photo, with the caption on it,
was spotted on my Twitter account.  I copied and pasted it
onto an empty blog page and added a short explanation.
Summary of the Sample Articles of Impeachment	643
This is a summary of another essay on another blog.
That essay is a long list of President Obama's impeachable
offenses, which is one of the most popular pages on any
of my blogs.  This essay includes a clickable link to that essay.
Boycott the National Football League - updates	553
This page mentions the N.F.L. Player's Association, the
2017 meeting attended by owners and the Commissioner,
Colin Kapernick,and various well-known people who agree
with the fans that players should stand for the Anthem.
The economics of the N.F.L. boycott	511
This page has information about the revenue of the
teams and the league.  It mentions sponsors who have
decided to stop sponsoring teams.  Colin Kapernick's
lawsuit is discussed.  I also include news stories about
half-empty football stadiums and slow sales at stores
that sell N.F.L.-licensed clothing.
Why I am a Republican	255
This page includes a YouTube video of a state legislator
named Elbert Guillory.  He is a State Senator in Louisiana.
He says why he switched from the Democrat Party.
His reasoning is hard to disagree with, partly because
he talks in a calm, quiet voice without strong emotion.
Seeing racism and sexism where it doesn't exist	432
This essay is based on my personal experience attending
a chess club at a public library many years ago.

Also worth reading on this blog

This gun saved lives. This page includes a 2013 news story about a woman who successfully defended herself and two small children when a man broke into her home.

Richard Nixon's second impeachment article. There are similarities to actions taken by President Obama.  There is a detailed explanation of those similarities in this page on another blog, that shows how Obama committed every one of the impeachable offenses that President Nixon did in his two abbreviated terms, which ended when he resigned as President in August 1974.


Why I am a Republican.  This page has been read 311 times as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2013.  At that time, a man named Elbert Guillory, a member of the Louisiana State Senate, had just switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.  He recorded a video of himself stating his reasons why he made the switch.  Since then, he has retired from the Louisiana Senate, but he is now part of the executive team in the Louisiana Republican Party.

Race for Dummies

Starting in the late 1990s, a company published a series of popular books that helped people with limited skills in certain areas improve their skills by reading these "How To" books.  One sample book is shown on the left.  My essay, written in March 2015, explained the basic principles of social color-blindness that had been discussed in much more detail in the third essay I had ever written for any of my blogs, The End of Racism.

In its' most simple form, the concept of color-blindness is the natural result of an inconsistency in the concept of race.  If you believe in race, and if two people from two different races become the parents of a biological child together, then the child cannot be a member of either of its' parent's races because it shares the DNA of both parents.  The definition of those two races is instantly unusable as a way to define the race of the child.

Water Economics for Students, 328 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written on July 26, 2016.  At that time, my essay "Water Economics" on my main blog was receiving thousands of readers daily, and from many different countries around the world.  I wrote this page for students in elementary schools and middle schools, so that they would understand how the scientific principles that they were learning in school could be applied to the problem of the drought in California.  This same concept, using science to solve a problem that affects a large economy, is the basic concept of the original 2012 blog page "Water Economics'.

This page uses many more graphics than my original 2012 page, meant for adult readers.  It uses some animated graphics, and it also uses colored text for everything but quotes of other people's words.  The page has a different feel, too.  It copies the style of some children's literature, which encourages them to take a "hands-on" approach to the task of learning the science concepts that give them the tools to understand the other ideas.  I even included two versions of a diagram that explained something called a Water Cycle.

Both diagrams show the same science principles.

A message for Kevin, 252 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2015 when I saw a cartoon drawing about a soldier with an amputated leg inside of a public school classroom that included one student, named Kevin, who didn't want to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  I added more information later, including some information about a Major General in the Army who had been killed in Afghanistan in 2014.  Many people were outraged because three high-ranking officials went to a funeral for Michael Brown, who had been killed by a police officer after robbing a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, yet no high-ranking people in Obama's White House attended the military funeral for an Army general.  I also added some photos of the funeral for some soldiers who served at Fort Hood, Texas, and who were murdered by a jihadi who was a psychiatrist at that base.

The ten countries that have sent the most visitors to this blog

These are the names and the numbers since I began writing this blog on December 10, 2012.

The names of these countries and their readership numbers have been verified by Google.  The number of readers from Brunei hasn't changed since the last update in June 2018, but that number is still high enough to qualify that country for this list.  Ireland only added two readers to this list since the last update.

Another piece of analytical information that I can see as a blog author is the number of readers during the past 30 days.  During the past 30 days up to the date of this update (February 10, 2020), there were 9 readers in Turkey, 5 readers in Argentina, 5 readers in Indonesia, and 5 readers in Mexico.

The June 2018 update of this page included 107 readers from Poland, but the number of readers from unknown countries (probably using virtual private networks) is now more than that number, so Poland is no longer on this list.
 

This part of this page will be updated whenever I update the list of the ten most popular essays.

Country	Visitors
United States	17,723
Russia	1,966
Germany	1,631
France	1,179
India	664
Ukraine	614
Canada	255
Brunei	236
Ireland	188
"unknown region"	154