Those Pesky Counters

'We' here at the Eagle's Nest get alot of mail regarding the traffic to The Southeast Texas Political Review. One reader wrote:

Sam, how come Website Outlook says that only about 120 people visit Philip Klein's site a day but his counter shows that thousands read it daily?

To answer this question, 'we' sent our own Beavis to Philip Klein's house over the weekend. After a sordid encounter with Philip's pomeranian, Lucy, Beavis crawled into the computer that is the brain (and I use that term loosely) behind the mouth.

Philip uses a program called STATCOUNTER to log the traffic to his site as is evidenced by the counter button in the top left corner (though I strongly suspect that he will remove it after he reads this):

A quick trip to the STATCOUNTER website shows that the user can easily manipulate the traffic numbers:

For an accurate account of the daily traffic to The Southeast Texas Political Review, log onto WEBSITE OUTLOOK
Sam T. Eagle editor