Bye-Bye, Google AdSense

We've removed the Google Ads from this blog because despite jumping through every hoop, we haven't received any payment (and yes, we reached the payment threshold many months ago and yes, there are no holds on the account).

Moreover, when trying to contact Google AdSense about payment we've discovered that there's no way to contact them -- no email address, no phone number, no request form, etc. There are Help Forums, but no actual Google AdSense person participates in those forums. Perhaps they sent a check and it got lost in the mail, but again,there's simply no way to contact them about it.

Also, Google AdSense gives you no way to delete their ads other than going into Blogger settings and deleting the code yourself. They claim that they do this so that you don't accidentally delete ads and only give you the option to "hide" the code.

I'm sure there are numerous people who actually get paid by Google AdSense. I am equally sure that there are numerous people who do not get their payments because I see their messages ignored in the Help Forums.

So, bye-bye, Google AdSense. You owe us money and we're tired of running your ads for free.
.

First on Google

Saw this over at Shakesville:

"[T]he premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we'll take the other country specific ones if need be), you'll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit."

So here's ours:

1. Absolut Corruption / Absolute Corruption
2. 2 Political Junkies / two political junkies
3. Lil Mayor Luke
4. Lil Ricky Santorum
5. Jack Kelly gets spanked

Also coming up #1:

"Ruth Ann Dailey spins" / "Ruth Ann Dailey boots" ("Boots" one comes up #1 for 2pj and #2 for Honsberger is a Liar. HA!)

Sadly, we only come in fourth for the phrase "Ron Paul Sucks."
.