LJ vs. Facebook

I tend to post mostly to LJ, with Facebook automatically picking up my LJ posts as "Notes." I prefer LJ to FB for posting since, well, I'm long-winded -- I suppose it comes from being a novelist. The character restrictions on FB I find too limiting, especially since some subjects demand more than just a surface examination. (It was the even more restrictive character limitations that drove me rather quickly from Twitter -- that and the inanity of most of the tweets I was reading.)

But... I'm noticing an interesting trend and am wondering if other LJ/FB users are noticing the same: I'm getting more responses to my posts from FB than from LJ now. I don't know if it's the 'immediacy' of FB, or that I have a slightly different set of people watching FB rather than LJ. But even my 'friends' on LJ who are also on FB are tending to post more to FB than to LJ.

Anyone else seeing the same tendency?

Words Just Fail Me...

Came across this on CNN: Tea Party Nation, the group that sponsored the "Tea Party" anti-tax and anti-health care gatherings recently, is going to have a Tea Party National Convention this February in Nashville. Headline speaker: Sarah Palin. Also speaking: Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.

Now, if they only form a political party and run the Palin/Bachmann ticket...