We are well into the morning on Christmas Day. Presents opened, coffee or hot chocolate copiously consumed, joy, etc, and I wanted to thank you for the gift of your time and attention.
Many of you read GraniteGrok every day. You share the content, praise the authors, and use emails and comments to share your thoughts, especially when we don’t agree on every point. That is the point.
We want to get ideas out there so they can be fisked, debated, or even beaten like a broken storm door in a hurricane.
I want to thank all the local podcasters who create content for allowing us to share it, and all the meme hunters who find and send in the memes you see three times a week on our pages.
Special thanks to the growing number of op-ed contributors, some of whom have grown significant libraries on these pages.
Thank you, email brigade – you who send me links, tips, insights, stories, and provide input that not always but often find its way onto these pages.
I need to thank my wife and family, who allow me the time to take all of that and turn it into what you see every day, 365 days a year. And let’s not forget Cosmo, my Labrador, who waits patiently when I tell him, No, I’m serious, we’ll go out in a minute. I need to do [insert name of thing here] first, as twenty minutes slip past while I chase something, write something, edit something, or make notes – I can take calls and walk him at the same time. We got that process down.
I want to thank my “real job” employer, who, even after my department was outsourced and my job went away, gave me some part-time remote work so that I could do this and still make ends meet.
And we can’t leave out the donors, big and small. Without your yearly or ongoing contributions, this website wouldn’t be here to share those podcasts, op-eds, and the thoughts of our official GraniteGrok authors to whom I offer my appreciation and thanks.
I know, isn’t this something you do on Thanksgiving?
Actually, it’s something I do every day. I give thanks for the blessings, big and small, the tests, the challenges, the drive, desire, opportunity, support, and passion from those around me. There are plenty of things you might do with your time, and I don’t want anyone to think that I ever stop appreciating that you spend some of it here, as a contributor, consumer, or supporter of GraniteGrok.com and Grok Media LLC.
Together, we make a difference, and 2026 is GraniteGrok’s 20th year of shaking up the political landscape, regardless of politics or party, every day, even if it’s just a little bit.
So, thank you, and get ready for more of that.
I’ll follow up next week with a brief review of some of the improvements and changes in 2025, along with a few new things coming in 2026.
Merry Christmas!
