After a week of watching this thing unfold it became clear to me (mostly through the advice others) that it might have been overreaching to hope that this one blog would accomplish two very different things. On the one hand, I wanted a repository for quick links, brief observations and bare knuckles battling. On the other hand, I wanted to develop something of an online magazine with more long-form, thoughtful, original content. It is becoming apparent that this one limited format blog might not be capable of supporting both efforts.

So, things are going to change around here. First off, I would like to introduce you to America Held Hostage.

AHH is the new sister blog to Growth of the Soil. Feel like fighting? Want to post a link to an interesting new article? Head over to AHH. AHH will also feature a daily survey of interesting political content on the web.

Feel like writing or reading something with a little more meat? Growth of the Soil will now be exclusively dedicated to original content. In the coming weeks, I hope to work with some the current contributors, and the large number of people who have told me that they are interesting in posting but haven’t posted yet, to ensure that there are one or two new pieces on Growth of the Soil every day.

So, that’s that.

Right now on America Held Hostage: a completely random review of some of the more interesting takes on the inaugural address.

- posted by Simon Marcus @ Friday, January 21, 2005