When I went to vote, I realized that this is the first TMD in 7 years that I have not been involved with a campaign or with political blogging.  Seven years ago, I actually ran for a city council seat myself.

Seeing all of the people standing outside with their signs, being greeted by the familiar faces of other Burlington pols, and, later, watching the election returns on our local government access channel, where I myself have appeared many times over the years to discuss politics, made me realize something.  I still love politics.  And now that I have taken a much – much! – needed break, I am so ready to get back into it.

So, I created a separate page here at Shatter Nicely, aptly called The Politics Page, where all political posts will show up.  They will not be in the regular RSS feed, nor will they appear on the front page of the regular blog, though they will show up in the archives.

I like what I am doing with Shatter Nicely and I still want to keep that going.  I don’t want to take away from that with the political posts.  But, as the saying goes, once a political blogger, always a political blogger.  No, really.  People say that.  Or, maybe not.

Anyway, head on over and check out The Politics Page.  There’s not much there yet for posts, and most of them are old, but I did some cool tweaks to the PHP to make it different than the main page.  It was fun and educational, and I was actually able to get it to look the way I wanted it to.