My Dear Mogslopper,

I've noticed a decline in our communications as of late. Thoughtfully, Our Power Below has allowed us to adopt some of the more ingenious methods of our patients in the ongoing effort to more efficiently deceive, bother, and consume them. Perhaps now I can convince you of the importance of keeping your Dear Old Uncle in-the-loop, as they say. You should have noticed (and if not, I'll point it out to you presently) that this weblogging medium is especially helpful to our cause as it suggests to the humans an onion's skin of personal interaction and relationship whilst at the same time denying the vermin those infuriating subtleties of voice and eye-contact and non-verbal communication used so disgustingly by our Enemy on his widely misunderstood sojourn here eons ago. Like anything, it is neither good nor evil in its essence. But treated gingerly, we might be able to evince that special habit of non-committal voyerism from a few of them. Or at least we can continue to persuade our patients to drag themselves and others into nuanced discussions of their favorite political figures and flavors of ice cream, specious judgments against this or that, polemics on lofty issues they hardly grasp. For, you must remember, and I will remind you frequently as I did my Dearly Departed Nephew Wormwood, that it is far less important how or with what topic you distract these miserable naked apes. What counts is that you distract. The moment we are trying to avoid at all costs is the one in which they begin to first hear and then look for Him. We have never had so many weapons of Ultimate Distraction at our disposal as we do presently. I dare not even go into detail about the technological developments of the Infernal Workshops--of which this pornography-laden internet phenomenon is just one. But you know as well as any Junior Tempter that the question we want to turn them from is the Why? Question. Of course even the Why Question is useful in circumstances where your patient has no intention of truly asking the question. If you sense a level of sincerity in their questioning, however.... Introduce something alluring. Tempt them! There is always the television. The news is particularly effective in these instances--they somehow feel that if they hear the up-to-the-minute report about something that they obtain knowledge. And if these buggers treasure anything, it's the ability to spout off a piece of news faster and more emphatically than their neighbor. But this is merely a suggestion. Surely a creative Tempter like yourself can think of a dozen ways to distract them from questioning anything faster than I can say Icravetheirsweetmeats. I wish you well in this new assignment. Fatten this one up on his own self-importance and I fancy we'll both be sharing a dainty morsel in none-too-long. With anticipation, Your Uncle