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November 17, 2008
There's a first for everything, and subcomandante Markos Moulitsas Zuniga - the Kos in DailyKos - has finally got one thing right. From the article "Right-wing bloggers see their chance" (link): While conservative bloggers talk about making a difference for their party, they have yet to back up their talk...
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November 14, 2008
Youtube has made a couple of interesting changes for some reason or other. First, their "sites linking to this video" section is now loaded via Javascript; those links are no longer embedded in the page. Despite the fact that those HTML links had nofollow tags, apparently some people were using...
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November 10, 2008
I'm not going to go into much detail in this, but a while back I offered a plan about how to deal with the mainstream media, which is somewhat similar to this. Now, for an example of how many bloggers are like flickering 10W lightbulbs, see these searches for this...
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November 07, 2008
[Oops! While it looked like the comment I left had been posted immediately, Olson says that it - and dozens more comments - had been put into a moderation queue, and he then approved all of them including the one I left. So, ignore the following, which is being kept...
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October 26, 2008
Four years ago at this time, Instapundit was in full-on GOP shill mode, desperately doing his best to get Bush re-elected, such as by promoting obviously misleading stories. Now, the magic seems to be gone. Sure, Insty hasn't linked to anything pro-Obama that I've seen, and he's linked to plenty...
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October 24, 2008
Newspaperman Michael Malone takes to the esteemed web pages of Pajamas Media to offer "Editing Their Way to Oblivion: Journalism Sacrificed For Power and Pensions" (link). Rather than being sarcastic or anything, I'll just point out that it's a worthless and wordy rant against the mainstream media ("MSM"), claiming that...
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October 23, 2008
Earlier today, I conducted a completely spurious conversation with Scott from PowerLineBlog! (I think there's an exclamation point in their name, but if that's wrong it doesn't hurt). It went like this: 24AHEAD: Thanks for bringing the story about the guy who made bogus donations to the Obama campaign to...
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October 20, 2008
Some only sit on the sidelines in the battle to prevent Barack Obama from becoming president. Others are fully engaged, valiantly and intelligently fighting with all their force, fighting the good fight no matter what happens. For a perfect example of that, turn to this post: patterico.com/2008/10/20/evidence-of-obama-ayers-tie-sent-down-the-memory-hole-almost (hat tap: pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/026008.php)....
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October 06, 2008
Drudge is currently linking to this video of black teenagers at a Kansas City charter school - dressed in fancified paramilitary outfits - pledging allegiance to Barack Obama and describing how he's changed their lives. I linked to that video back on the second in the post about the then-previous...
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October 05, 2008
Earlier today, Dave Winer of Scripting News offered "I'd like to have a word with Republicans" (scripting.com/stories/2008/10/05/idLikeToHaveAWordWithRepub.html). Clamping his hands down over his ears just as hard as he could, he said: Barack Obama is an honorable person. You may not agree with him, or like where he would take...
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October 04, 2008
Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly has scored a hat trick: he or his helpers deleted three comments I left on his entries today. And, the deletions happened very shortly after I left the comments, so obviously they're very worried about their readers learning about the things that Steve Benen...
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September 28, 2008
UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge recently tried to debunk illegal immigration's role in the mortgage crisis. Along with issuing smears, his only data points in support of his position came from data that was over a decade old. Not only didn't he tell his readers that the data was incredibly...
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A few days ago, Michelle Malkin offered "Illegal immigration and the mortgage mess" (link). Now, if there's one thing that the corrupt on both the right and the left can agree on it's that illegal immigration is the best thing since 8ulova watches. Thus it is that UCLA Professor Stephen...
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September 26, 2008
Yesterday I posted to FreeRepublic exhorting people to visit Time's Swampland and discredit house hacks Joe Klein, Karen Tumulty, and Ana Marie Cox, saying in part (link): ...almost all of the posts read like something from DailyKos, and almost all of the comments do as well... But, there's something you...
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September 23, 2008
During the Kevin Drum years at Washington Monthly, several of my on-topic, non-abusive comments were deleted. As pointed out here a few times, that means you can't trust anything you read there: everything has to be double-checked because they're willing to delete fact-checking by their readers. (I also noted that...
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September 22, 2008
Back in October, I declared Blogwar against Naomi Wolf because she didn't approve a comment or two I left on the HuffPost. Now, I am rescinding that call, and instead am considering calling in a psychiatrist for her: Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for...
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September 02, 2008
The Washington Post recently published a blog post about Sarah Palin (in their words) "slash[ing]" funds to a non-profit group. Except, what they got from the state of Alaska alone was over three times what they got from all government sources combined in 2006. Let's take a look at the...
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August 30, 2008
The Orange County Register operates an "Issue Blog", and yesterday Erin Carlyle offered 'WSJ editorial writer attacks illegal immigration "myths"' (peekURL.com/z6xhh1s) all about the thoughts of open borders (literally) advocate Jason Riley. I left the comment that's in the extended entry; it hasn't appeared but four others have. I sent...
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August 16, 2008
"Yes, Guillaume, I am Lonewacko," I informed the key member of Team Lonewacko, now known as Team 24Ahead, who had rushed into my office in a tizzy. "I am simply in a new guise." "Bbbbut... the sign on our building has been changed! I thought that you had 'flown the...
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August 12, 2008
Perennial idiot Instapundit (aka "Glenn Reynolds", "Seasonal GOP Hack", "Insty") says (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/022837.php): DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE (CONT'D): Black bear attacks boy in Smokies; father also hurt. "A black bear repeatedly mauled an 8-year-old boy Monday evening near a popular motor trail on the outskirts of Gatlinburg, and an animal...
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August 06, 2008
Kevin Drum obviously doesn't want his readers to know how much of a hack he is, since either he or someone else at Washington Monthly keep deleting comments from me and apparently from others as well. The latest in this long line was left earlier today on a post about...
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July 29, 2008
The latest example of Max Blumenthal's abject stupidity is called "Toby Keith's Pro-Lynching Publicity Tour Hits Colbert, CBS and More" (huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/toby-keiths-pro-lynching_b_115526.html) and concerns the song "Beer For My Horses" which is apparently also a movie. Discussing all the ways it's wrong is left as an exercise (actually, don't bother), but:...
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A couple weeks back Alternet deleted a comment I left. Now, after having successfully left another comment, I've been banned. The comment that drove them over the edge is below. Alternet frequently posts articles supporting illegal immigration, and until the last two incidents I've been able to post a dozen...
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July 28, 2008
Back on the 22nd, "Bill Hawkins" started a blog at Barack Obama's site and posted an entry (my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/billhawkins) entitled "Which hate sites should be banned?" The post suggested that BHO take his push to drive hate off the airwaves to the Internet as well, and solicited BHO fans to list...
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Presented for your amusement is the diary entry from one "clammyc" called "John McCain, f#$%ing liar" (dailykos.com/story/2008/7/28/165138/698/993/558351): It's long past time for people to not only give McCain a total pass on his outright lies, smears, "McCain moments" and other absolute nonsense that comes from his mouth. And if he...
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July 23, 2008
I'll leave it to political scientists, political analysts, and psychologists to try to figure out why the Republican Party (GOP) is unable to use the internet to their advantage and I'll just point out one example of how the Democrats and Barack Obama are eating John McCain's lunch. In the...
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July 15, 2008
All rightthinking comrades will be in Austin, Texas this weekend for DailyKos' Netroots Nation, a convention formerly known as YearlyKos. A search of the site shows just one session relating to immigration, called nutrootsily enough "How to Win the Immigration Debate and Beat Back ICE's Emerging Police State" (netrootsnation.org/node/864). Put...
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I've left several comments on Alternet's immigration entries, and as far as I know none had been deleted until the last. That last comment was left on the entry "Minutemen Scream "F@$k You Brown Boy!" at Latinos Attending Obama Talk" by Kyle de Beausset (alternet.org/blogs/peek/91440). That post is just the...
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July 07, 2008
America's perkiest newsbabe, Katie Couric, informs us that the words "netroots" and "mondegreen" have been added to the dictionary. The second word is derived from a song lyric "laid him on the green"; in reference to Katie I'd prefer rondegreen (phwoar), but that's just me. And, of course, we know...
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July 06, 2008
Youtube's "Citizentube" (citizentube.com) apparently doesn't want to hear from citizens, because that blog where they post promos for Youtube's political ventures has stopped allowing comments on their entries. They used to allow comments, but they've even gone as far as deleting all comments which were left on their past entries....
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July 01, 2008
NewsHounds is a bargain-basement "liberal" site whose tagline is "We watch FOX so you don't have to": their contributors watch that network and then write up reports. No less than two comments I left on the thread "Ingraham criticizes Washington Post for report, but fails to disprove it" by contributor...
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June 30, 2008
[PBS re-posted my comment; see the update.] The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has a relatively new effort called "Engage" [1] in which they solicit feedback from their viewers. However, they only want the "right kind" of feedback and are willing to delete or ignore comments that are critical of their...
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June 21, 2008
Recently, Matt Yglesias of The Atlantic (matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com) has been posting a daily thread soliciting questions that he'll answer from his visitors ("requests"). I've posted a few comments to those threads without an answer, but that just means I'll keep trying. To be frank, the reason I do that is in...
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June 15, 2008
Notice anything interesting about this libertarian-themed "American Voices" feature from The Onion? Yes, that's right: by an odd coincidence, those last names are the same as the last names of several cherished staffers from Reason Magazine: reason.com/staff As pointed out here many times, it's often difficult to tell the difference...
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June 09, 2008
Glenn Reynolds (aka "Instapundit", "Insty", "seasonal GOP hack", etc.) sandwiches (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/020261.php) an excerpt to this article about Katrina victims still living in hotels between "KATRINA UPDATE: Some receiving FEMA assistance unwilling to help themselves:" and "Read the whole thing." Unfortunately, Insty doesn't appear to have covered the massive Katrina scandal...
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May 25, 2008
Washington Monthly has a habit of deleting comments I (and apparently others) leave there. Kevin Drum is apparently on vacation so I don't know whether he popped in just to delete the comment I left earlier today on this thread: washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_05/013790.php. The author is "Hilzoy" of the blog "Obsidian Wings"...
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May 15, 2008
Over thousands of posts, this site has had to make very few corrections, probably at most the same number as the NYT makes in a day. However, in the past some unnamed members of the team whose content appears here advanced the belief that "The Anchoress" (theanchoressonline.com, "TA") is actually...
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May 04, 2008
Nico Pitney is the Huffington Post's "National Editor". Until around August of last year he was Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and the Managing Editor of ThinkProgress. And, yes, those are very strong warning signs considering that CAP seems to screen its hires for childishness and...
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May 02, 2008
Xeni Jardin is a lightweight supporter of illegal immigration and pseudo-hipster (tech division) who blogs at BoingBoing. She offers "Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due process" (boingboing.net/2008/05/01/online-game-teaches.html) about a video game which portrays a superhuman ICE agent oppressing people of color (and one young lady from Poland)...
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April 30, 2008
In the near future, the following changes will be made in this general order: 1. I'm going to change this domain name to something that isn't stupid. I think I'm going to just redirect every current page to counterparts at the new site, so none of the URLs would 404,...
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April 28, 2008
The answer is somewhere in this picture: Unfortunately, it looks like a mole or other cylindrical beast from The Vast Patriarchical Conspiracy snuck into Amanda Marcotte's publishing house and caused them to insert (as into a book) highly questionable images: link. This has caused her to issue a completely voluntary...
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April 11, 2008
I have no idea what the heck is happening here because I'm laughing so hard. Apparently running joke in these parts Amanda Marcotte based in some way or other one of her screeds on a series of others' works. One of those affected has gone as far as shutting down...
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March 31, 2008
Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times offers "Blogger outreach boosts McCain" (link), an uncharacteristic attempt to blame the resurgence of John McCain on bloggers rather than where it mostly belongs: on constant MSM puffery: Even as talk radio was brutalizing Sen. John McCain in the Republican presidential primaries, conservative bloggers...
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March 25, 2008
Kevin Drum and/or the Washington Monthly have a habit of deleting perfectly reasonable comments; because of that you can't trust anything you read there. Comments sections serve as a form of check on the blogger or reporter; if they make a mistake someone will probably come along to point it...
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March 23, 2008
How sleazy is Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post? Sleazy enough to post this smear of Sean Hannity, linking him to white supremacist radio host Hal Turner. The latter apparently used to call in to Hannity's radio program; he claims he and Hannity were friends until Hannity's Program Director told...
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February 26, 2008
About a year ago, Youtube - apparently prompted by Google - added the anti-web nofollow tag to an increasing variety of their outbound links (except for some links, such as those which were on content provided by videomaker.com, something that would seem to violate Google's own rules). You can see...
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January 07, 2008
Our friends at RedState have issued an urgent plea [1] for $25,000 so they can upgrade their site from Drupal to Django. In the spirit of helpfulness, I urge everyone reading this to donate a penny if PayPal allows it. But, only if the transactions costs exceed the amount you...
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December 31, 2007
Thomas H. Crown [1] of RedState offers a roundup of the year's events [2] that mentions me: Second, Lonewacko Blog, if you're reading this -- and based on your obsessively repeated tirade across half the blogosphere and Wikipedia, you are: I banned you, you dirty little racist. I banned you...
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December 29, 2007
Radio host and co-star of the Hannity & Colmes show Alan Colmes has a blog here. Please go destroy his arguments. UPDATE: I thank Alan Colmes for sending some traffic my way. I note also that I learned about his site a few days ago and even started pointing out...
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December 27, 2007
Before the advent of the Huffington Post, the only way that Laurie David could get the word out about her adventures was through things like typing out articles for the monthly Brentwood Intelligencer. Nowadays, sharing her life with the world is just a click away, as she offers "Dispatch From...
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December 05, 2007
The site Crooks and Liars (Crooks & Liars, crooksandliars.com) has banned me from posting comments there. I've twice tried to comment on a recent entry, only to be confronted by a popup saying that I've been banned. I haven't left too many comments there, and a couple have been deleted...
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November 29, 2007
This is truly a watershed mark in my blogging commentary career. Instapundit points to this Howard Kurtz entry and says (instapundit.com/archives2/012323.php): Using Google for plane tickets is okay. But next time, try using them for . . . Googling. As a commenter at Kurtz's observes: "What should be noted about...
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November 19, 2007
Earlier today I left a comment on this post (blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/11/huckabees-first.html) from ABC News' Political Radar: If I didn't know better, I'd say the ad was great. And, if I were promoting Huck for some reason, I'd say it was great too! If that doesn't sound like me or make much...
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October 19, 2007
I am hereby declaring Blog War on Naomi Wolf. As discussed at that link, I left a comment on one of her Huffington Post entries. It should have been approved, but it was not. Now, it has happened again on this post; comment below. This time the address that visited...
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October 14, 2007
From this: On Thursday night, L.A. Times political blogger Andrew Malcolm wrote a post about John Edwards's denial of an extramarital affair. When some commenters complained that the story was unsupported tabloid trash, Malcolm replied in parenthetical remarks appended to the comments, saying that it was a legitimate topic because...
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September 29, 2007
The 22nd of this month marked the fifth anniversary of this site in its current form; everyone is invited to raise a styrofoam cup of Diet Shasta in commemoration of that momentous event. In early 2004 I listed some of this site's accomplishments and noteworthy achievements. I haven't really done...
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September 18, 2007
Naomi Wolf - who you may remember from the Al "Alpha Male" Gore episode - offers "A Shocking Moment for Society: Tasering at University of Florida" [1]. I left a comment which appears to have been disapproved, thus once again proving false the HuffPost claim that they don't disapprove comments...
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September 03, 2007
One of Arianna Huffington's minions offers "Bush Pays Surprise Visit to Reality": President George W. Bush departed from his planned itinerary on Labor Day to make a surprise visit to reality, later calling the two-hour stop in the real world "informative." ...For Mr. Bush, the visit to reality, while brief,...
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August 31, 2007
Ana Marie Cox (aka Wonkette) can be seen on the Keith Olbermann Show here saying the following: "I know Mitt Romney is not himself Christian.... or, that's a point of debate..."...
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August 20, 2007
Eric Stoner ("a writer based in New York, whose writings have appeared in many publications, including The Nation") and Bryan Farrell ("a researcher for Rolling Stone and an independent journalist in New York") offer "Fear and Loathing on the Jersey Shore". The (presumed) couple went abroad (i.e., left Manhattan) and...
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July 30, 2007
Unlike Bill O'Reilly, I don't want to see DailyKos destroyed. It would be nice, however, to see them twisting uncomfortably in a strong, very cold wind. O'Reilly's weapon of Kos destruction is the Photoshop of Joe Liberman and George Bush attached right. The URL of this photo is: images.dailykos.com/images/user/1054/lieberman.jpg...
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Earlier today, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had a seizure followed by a fall. He's been hospitalized, but apparently only for observation. For some very low-hanging fruit, here are some words of hope from Democratic Underground posters. Bear in mind that aside from "la la" (530 posts) all...
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July 24, 2007
I hate Perl. Hate, hate, hate. Absolutely hate it. Did I mention how much I hate it? Unfortunately, Moveable Type is written in Perl, although later versions also have some PHP. Also unfortunately, this site uses MT. So, when I was recently unable to login to my site, I ran...
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July 15, 2007
I like Youtube, but I feel a bit perturbed every time I link to or embed one of the videos from that site. I'd prefer not to give them any links at all, and I may at some future date convert the current links to them to bare links or...
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July 12, 2007
St. Cyndi Sheehan - America's favorite drama queen - has been ex-communicated (i.e., booted off DailyKos; I have been "warned"; dailykos.com/story/2007/7/12/91014/1295) due to apostasy: she's apparently going to run against Nancy Pelosi... and as an independent! See, DailyKos is a site for Democrats and designed to elect Democrats. Of course,...
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June 10, 2007
Reaching very, very low into the barrel, one of the comments I left on a post [1] by "Sister Toldjah" was edited, and another was deleted. Almost all comments forms have a box where you enter your URL, and I entered this site's URL in that field; she edited the...
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June 09, 2007
I think I was the first to point out that John Edwards hiring Amanda Marcotte as his Head Blogger showed how clueless he was. As Exhibit #84214592A-39124, I present to you her new post [1] called "If Paris Hilton makes you mad...". It links to a music video by some...
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May 31, 2007
Pictured right is a blogad currently running on the site (ezraklein.typepad.com) of Ezra Klein of TAPPED (The American Prospect). The ad is for cirnow.org, the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. I'm not going to hold someone responsible for the ads on their site... except blogads have to be approved by...
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May 23, 2007
John Edwards' former blogging star, Amanda Marcotte, offers [1] "Lou Dobbs really, really hates Mexicans": David Neiwert has a follow-up on the issue of Lou Dobbs trotting out numbers on national TV about Mexican nationals spreading leprosy that he got from a white supremacist group that pulled the numbers out...
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May 15, 2007
Here he is: In previous tool news: Fred Thompson: illegal alien amnesty supporter? Instapundit makes a shocking confession Tancredo may run for president; Chris Cannon begins smears? Sleazy Glenn Reynolds, John Podhoretz smear Pat Buchanan...
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May 07, 2007
I continue to be amazed that Time Magazine has stooped to the National Inquirer level of employing Ana Marie Cox - formerly with Wonkette - as their Washington Editor and a contributor to their blog Swampland. Now, there's something you can do about it! Simply use Firefox with the Greasemonkey...
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Yesterday, Carter Wood of the ShopFloor.org blog (run by the National Association of Manufacturers) posted a content-free anti-Lou Dobbs post entitled "Running for President on the Fist-Pounding Ticket". I left a couple comments which were moderated and which have not been approved, and I doubt whether they will be. First,...
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April 30, 2007
As in "dude ranch": Caption: Brooks Brothers suit jacket turns out not to go so well with hiking. Leaving the Great Liberal Northeast for seemingly the first time, pundit Matt Yglesias recently traveled to Taos, New Mexico. I spent a fair amount of time typing out an unheeded comment suggesting...
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April 20, 2007
The proposed "Blogger's Code of Conduct" [1] was once a simple affair, consisting of a few fairly broad provisions. Now, it's mushroomed into a multi-page, a al carte affair where you can "[c]reate your own code by selecting the modules you want". There are 10 modules, as well as a...
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April 16, 2007
Good ol' Andrew Sullivan links to the short article "Of Republicans and Banana-Republicans" [1] which is somewhat similar to what I was saying in September 2005's "Are we headed towards a Banana Republic?" I might link directly to the article instead of using the plain text version below, except I...
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April 09, 2007
Tim O'Reilly (publishes tech books; link) and Jimbo Wales (runs Wikipedia, "The Encyclopedia Only As Good As Its Last Edit"; blogging.wikia.com/wiki/Blogger%27s_Code_of_Conduct) are feverishly working on a "Blogging Code of Ethics", which may include blogging "badges" similar to those used with CC-licensed content. ("A Call for Manners in the World of...
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April 05, 2007
Please become slightly hyponatremic and slightly anemic and set the hair trigger on your Hypersensitivity Meter to 11 and read the following: ...In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Michael Chertoff, who arrives in Britain tomorrow for talks with John Reid, the Home Secretary, said the US was determined to...
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March 27, 2007
I thought long and hard about whether I want to do this or not. "Isn't it mean and low-class to do something like this?" I asked myself. "Yes, it is, but it's also just a light-hearted jab, plus, it's not like you're doing something like this, and furthermore it's not...
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March 25, 2007
A week ago I posted about Washington Monthly editing comments without noting they were edited. But, there's a completely selfish reason why every blogger should re-examine their links to both Washington Monthly and Calpundit.com (Kevin Drum of WM's former site): many of those entries are clogged with spammmm. That's OK...
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Instapundit linked to me a few times for my coverage of the "peace" protests, but his last link was to this October 5, 2003 entry. He subsequently ignored my entreaties to meet him while passing through Knoxville. It's been all downhill from there, including me calling him sleazy, pointing out...
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March 18, 2007
[Update here] Washington Monthly ("WM"; Kevin Drum/Political Animal, washingtonmonthly.com) used to have an open commenting policy, and I've been posting the occasional and almost always critical comment at that site since Drum moved there and at his previous location (calpundit.com) since 2002 or 2003. WM recently changed to some form...
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March 11, 2007
Yesterday I moved this site and boreamerica.com from their previous host (tronictech.com) to their new host (steadfast.net). They'd been at the first for almost two years, but recent visitors may have noticed long periods during which this site was suspended. Rather than dispensing information to an information-starved world, I was...
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March 04, 2007
Comments are currently disabled, because leaving them enabled led to my host shutting this site down temporarily on Friday and on Saturday. The commenting script was using a lot of CPU for a reason I haven't looked into yet, but it may be a bug, or a MovableType "feature", or...
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March 02, 2007
The blog fight is on! Yesterday, "Captain Ed" posted an interview with Mike Huckabee. In a vain attempt to get someone - anyone - attending CPAC to ask anything remotely approaching a difficult question, I responded ("NoMoreBlatherDotCom"), the "Captain" responded, and now I have the feeling I'm about to be...
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March 01, 2007
Several of our favorites have been selected as "credentialed bloggers" for this year's CPAC ("Conservative Political Action Conference"). I fully expect earth-shattering news to come from "Bloggers' Row", as these internet journalists use their new-found access to ask the tough questions that the MSM won't. Digging ever deeper for the...
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February 16, 2007
The communications director for Lieberman's 2006 general election campaign, Dan Gerstein, offers "Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says": ...Throughout the course of the controversy, the left's bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address the substance of what the Edwards bloggers actually wrote before joining the campaign... Instead, right...
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February 12, 2007
As soon as a door closes, a window opens or something, and recently-resigned John Edwards blogger Amanda Marcotte is learning that Edwards' loss might be B. Hussein Obama's gain. Or... Al Gore's or Bill Richardson's gain! Shortly after issuing her resignation, the plain-speaking blogger who's unafraid to use vulgar words...
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February 05, 2007
Dave Pierre offers "'Lib-pedia'? Anti-Conservative Bias Rampant At Wikipedia" (newsbusters.org/node/10615). He's definitely right about that, but I don't think he fully groks that the only way to correct that bias is for conservatives to be more tenacious than those on the other side who currently spend a lot of time...
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January 31, 2007
From our "it's the small things, ain't it" department comes the news that the John Edwards campaign has brought on Amanda Marcotte as their "Blogmaster". Marcotte is a contributor to the site pandagon.net, and has all the grasp of current events, rationality, and decorum of a schizophrenic, homeless, "History of...
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January 22, 2007
Based on a "directive" from Jimmy Wales [1], the English version of Wikipedia has started using the "nofollow" tag on all external links (the foreign language versions had been doing that for a while). That tag tells search engines to not pass any "search engine juice" (e.g., PageRank) from the...
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January 09, 2007
memeorandum.com is a tiny bit like the Drudgereport for blogs: it links to the supposed top stories of the day and the bloggers that are discussing those stories. And, it's posted several entries about immigration matters but, AFAIK, has only ever posted one link to this site. While most of...
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December 20, 2006
I'm a big fan of the Huffington Post for many reasons: unlike other sites it has a look that's immediately recognizable and one always knows where one is, they occasionally have Harry Reid on there and two of my very scathing comments have ended up on the first page of...
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December 14, 2006
ThinkProgress - adjust your credibility indicators accordingly - sounds the alarm about new legislation from Senator John McCain (R-Lechuga). Based on this CNET article, they provide these handy bullet points: - Commercial websites and personal blogs "would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or...
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December 07, 2006
The 2006 Weblog awards start today. I nominated this site in a few categories, but the only one it was selected for was "Best of the 6751-8750". I ask everyone to vote for this site, and note that you can vote once every 24 hour period. If you aren't familiar...
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November 27, 2006
Pat Buchanan offers "Is Putin Being Set Up?" about the recent apparent murder-by-plutonium of the former KGB spy, Alexander Litvinenko. He offers an explanation other than the most obvious: that the case was an attempt to discredit Putin, rather than attempts by Putin to silence his critics. Considering the trail...
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November 21, 2006
Judd Legum of Think Progress (run by the Clinton-linked joke known as the Center for American Progress) discusses a recent segment of the Neil Cavuto show here. Cavuto claims that the movie "Happy Feet" is "far-left" propaganda: Cavuto saw the movie with his sons and found it "offensive." Cavuto objected...
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November 13, 2006
Here's something citizen journalists, media critics, or bloggers could look into: How did the media's coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2006 reelection campaign differ from the coverage he received in his two previous campaigns (the recall and the campaign for his propositions)?...
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November 12, 2006
"Duke1676" blogs about immigration matters at his own site and other places including DailyKos. He's on the other side, and he recently offered a standard smear piece on Tom Tancredo. However, while his "suggestions on the upcoming immigration debate" does include his own misguided views, it does have some advice...
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November 07, 2006
The latest example of the mainstream reaching out to bloggers is CNN's "BlogStock", aka a "blog party" (1). They've invited a couple dozen mainstream bloggers to blog live from an internet cafe in Washington DC. Apparently this is supposed to be cutting edge, but most of those involved are partisan...
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October 18, 2006
Each YouTube video page has a "Links to this video" section and, even when there are assuredly a large number of such links that have generated massive amounts of traffic to that video, there may be no links at all or the links that are shown seem a bit funky....
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September 28, 2006
These Free Republic threads have at least two things in common: freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709042/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709051/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709076/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709036/posts The first commonality is that they're all in FR's "f-chat" section, which, as it sounds, is for "chatty" things rather than the supposedly hard news section at "f-news". And, all of them appear to...
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September 25, 2006
My fellow trolls: David Horton - one of Arianna's nobody contributors at the HuffPost - has finally cracked under our pressure: ...So the Right have gone back to the tactic of employing Thought Police. Not on the streets now, don't need them there, but on the progressive blogs. We call...
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September 22, 2006
Arkansas Family Coalition is a blog that supports the candidacy of Asa Hutchinson for governor of Arkansas. They deleted a comment I left there on the 9/19/06 thread "Beebe and illegal immigration" that was critical of that former DHS undersecretary: Oddly enough, these links I tried placing in Asa's Wikipedia...
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Today, this site notes its fourth anniversary: four years of providing some information and analysis not available elsewhere. A true blogging innovator, Lonewacko is, unlike 98% or so of other political bloggers, not a partisan hack. Nor does he - or the entire Lonewacko team - curry the favor of...
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September 19, 2006
As can be seen in the image below, a page at this site was recently linked to by Reason Magazine. That's a link to this page at the word "gripe" (hopefully he meant definition #3, "to be ardent"). In any case, I am deeply honored and humbled to have caught...
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September 11, 2006
Way-far-out-there but not-as-far-as-Alex-Jones American-turned-British-"investigative"-journalist Greg Palast claims to have been charged with "unauthorized filming" of "critical infrastructure" after shooting the outside of an Exxon plant a hundred miles from New Orleans, Louisiana. This was apparently part of a documentary about Katrina refugees. It would be nice to read a straight...
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Eric Alterman has been fired by MSNBC. But, don't cheer just yet: he's been hired by Media Matters for America, a group that admits to having received money from George Soros. He will be joining "Hatrios", aka Duncan B. Black, as a Senior Fellow at the organization....
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August 27, 2006
Air America Radio co-founder Sheldon Drobny is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and he's posted several threads lately where he criticizes Bill Maher for apparently planning to have Ann Coulter on his show. In one post he called him a "sell out", and supposedly Arianna herself gave him a...
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August 16, 2006
Zack Exley of MoveOn and New Organizing has a Wiki: neworganizing.com/wiki You need to sign up to edit pages, and I don't want to encourage any sort of defacement or anything like that. But, I do note that the site could do with something like a section not just praising...
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August 08, 2006
NRO Contributing Editor James S. Robbins offers "Hooray for Global Warming", which I presume to be a satire: ...A population distribution map of Canada shows most people live in a belt running along the southern border with the United States. But add global warming and vast regions would become comfortably...
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August 07, 2006
Well, it looks like I'm still out of town, so a question: have you ever considered the work of a florist? UPDATE: A word of explanation. The title is a take-off on a question from the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory); a purported copy of which can be found here....
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August 05, 2006
Since it looks like I'm out of town for a couple days, what's your favorite color? How does it make you feel? As for myself, I tend to prefer red. I don't like orange or yellow that much because they're a bit wishy-washy and seem a bit garish, especially orange....
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August 02, 2006
Maybe I'm just not attuned to her special wavelength, but Jane Hamsher strikes me as just a tad - just a tad - incoherent. The same goes for her blog. Once again, maybe it's just me. However, her latest post is truly the lowest in a long string of low...
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August 01, 2006
All thoughts must be sanitized and correct in the fine sparkling world of Think Progress, and the latest example comes from the thread "Malkin: Outrage About Qana 'Manufactured,' 'If It's Not Qana, It's Something Else... It's Beauty Pageants'". As you might expect, a firestorm of witty "liberal" comments and jokes...
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July 31, 2006
Sen. Rick Santorum is apparently trying to promulgate an endorsement of his rival (Bobby Casey Jr.) made by al-Jazeera. Santorum even mentioned this on Thursday's Bill O'Reilly show. Only one problem: the endorsement is from al-jazeerah.info, which is not related to the infamous network (and is in fact located in...
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July 24, 2006
In some ways, Hugh Hewitt is the person that I wish I was. He is a true renaissance man: an author, a radio host, an attorney, a public speaker, a blogger, a virulent BushBot, and now the editor of Townhall.com. He's reportedly able to update his blog... while doing...
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July 19, 2006
A housekeeping message: this site's posts dealing with the North American Union have been moved into that category....
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July 10, 2006
John C. Dvorak's "Uncensored" site deleted two of my comments I left on the thread "Ah, Mexico? Can You Send More Illegal Aliens To Pick Florida Oranges? What BS!" The following backstory is a bit long, but the bottom line is this: if you want in-depth information on immigration matters,...
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July 07, 2006
I left two comments on the entry "Greg Mankiw Explains Why Economists Favor Immigration" from UC Berkeley professor Brad DeLong. Both were deleted. Since both comments have a bit more heft than some other comments which were not deleted, and neither comment is abusive, I have to wonder what's going...
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July 06, 2006
A data point in support of one of my favorite theories....
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July 02, 2006
The obscure blog "Brothers Judd" - run by Orrin Judd with the technical assistance of his brother Stephen - has deleted the last four comments I left there. Since none of the comments were more abusive than usual and all were on-topic and I daresay informative, I'm left with the...
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June 22, 2006
The difference is often difficult to discern, but here's a real-world example. Huffington Post: Arianna has booted contributer Dr. Peter Rost: "Setting the Record Straight: On Trolls, Moles, and Dis-Invited Bloggers": Dear HuffPost Readers, Commenters, and Bloggers, Here's the bottom line on the issues raised by Peter Rost: We disabled...
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June 19, 2006
To keep you up-to-date with my bannings: 1. I'm blocked from leaving comments at ThinkProgress. Here's the last comment I left there, which was removed (twice!): Interesting factoid: Nativo "Larry" Lopez - one of the organizers of the recent illegal immigration boycott - was booted off the Santa Ana schoolboard...
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Irrepressible BushBot Mark Noonan offers "President Bush Riding High", which links to Michael Barone's "Stronger Than He Seems". (Insty would link to both analyses, but he's on vacation.) On the other hand, I note that PardonMyEnglish no longer features a big picture of Bush as the background of their site....
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June 07, 2006
Subcommandante Markos "Kos" Zuniga has finally nailed down his exact political orientation: he's a "Libertarian Democrat". Now, that doesn't mean that he embraces the full lunatic/libertarian agenda, nor does it mean that the lunatics/libertarians have embraced the Lunatic World of Kos. However, as for the latter, we can pretend. And,...
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May 24, 2006
Believe it or not, there are still KoolAid-besotted bloggers out there who believe in Our Leader. One of them is "MacsMind", which was previously featured here giving Bush's critics a piece of his mind: "Shut up whiners" He's back with this: No one is above criticism, yet of all the...
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May 22, 2006
Kevin Drum informs us that Sully is asking his readers to send in pictures from the windows of the cubicle whence they encumber the world with their thoughts. Rather than provide my own, I decided to make a slight modification to the picture that Drum is good enough to provide....
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April 17, 2006
Insty directs our attention to Hugh Hewitt, who's conducting a straw poll for the 2008 presidential race. The lucky choices are: George Allen Sam Brownback Bill Frist Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee John McCain Mitt Romney Isn't the omission of Rep. Tom Tancredo rather curious? Well, not if you know how...
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March 26, 2006
ODub comes out against illegal immigration, although he can't help but get his digs in at those evil conservatives....
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This was highly predictable. Yesterday, Insty posted the following: I'VE GENERALLY FAVORED OPEN IMMIGRATION, but I find myself feeling less and less that way in the face of mass rallies by illegal immigrants like this one... Now, he's got an update with an email putting the bestest spin possible on...
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March 16, 2006
Arianna Huffington stands accused of posting a post that claimed to be from George Clooney but was actually cobbled together from bits and pieces of overheard conversations, blogospheric duck tape, random statements from Clooney's publicist, and swear words allegedly provided to the HuffPost by Gov. Dr. Howard Dean M.D. RCVS....
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March 13, 2006
In a desperate attempt to increase the readership to this blog, I recently placed a blogad on the Liberty News Forum highlighting this site's immigration coverage. Here are the stats: page views: 112132 clicks: 5 CTR: 0.004% CPC: $2.40 Now, obviously, that CPC would be acceptable if I was selling...
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March 09, 2006
I've been posting entries and comments at RedState since July 2004. [1] A few days ago my last entry there was deleted and my posting privileges were revoked. [2] And, despite sending two emails to RS co-founder Mike Krempasky and one to another moderator there, no one has seen fit...
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Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (DailyKos) and Michael Krempasky (RedState) have sent a letter to Congress urging them to support H.R. 1606, the Online Freedom of Speech Act. Just as a small bit of irony, back in 2003 I was banned from leaving comments at DailyKos, after I pointed out that Kos'...
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March 07, 2006
It might just be a technical problem, or I might have finally been banned by RedState.org. Yesterday around this time I re-posted the entry Bush "Gold Card" would open borders to cheap labor at RedState, and it still shows up in news.google.com: The URL in that picture goes to a...
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February 28, 2006
Apparently various countries block access to BoingBoing. There are ways to get around the censorship, but the problem is they're listed at BB itself! So, those who are censored might not be able to read it. Thankfully, Insty has stepped into the breach. In addition, here are some tips if...
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February 17, 2006
Did you know that the Denver Post has a blog? In fact, you're ordered to think of it "as a funky old apartment building where a lot of different personalities live and hang out". Cool! Is one of those "different personalities" the Denver Mexican consul? Remember that in 2002 the...
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February 12, 2006
Speaking on the Chris Matthews show, the NYT's David Brooks said the following: Whoever the Democratic candidate, that is the weakness of the Democratic party, they’ve got the blogs and the netroots who are semi-nuts and they insist on a Stalinist line of discipline. Obviously, that's completely false. Liberal bloggers...
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February 01, 2006
In the recent entry "Central Valley orange growers look to Thailand for labor" I alluded to a "shocking revelation", and now's the time to reveal what that meant. The "Jobs for South Asia Coalition" - which you probably never heard of - was a Swiftian satire on guest worker programs....
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Who really cares?...
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The DUmmies report here. The underlying news article link is bad, but his myspace "blog" - apparently what they're referring to - is here, with his explanation here....
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January 05, 2006
Dear Technorati: I have absolutely no idea why you removed the numbers next to each citation showing that blog's Technorati rank, i.e., the number of inbound links that you say that blog has. For various reasons this information is invaluable and it needs to be visible in each blog's citation....
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December 31, 2005
Is the Huffington Post trying to tell us something? Is Bill Maher the secret brains behind the operation, with Arianna just a foxy front person? If that's not true, then why is Arianna's picture a modest 39 by 46 pixels, whereas Maher's weighs in at a whopping 45 by...
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December 29, 2005
Kathleen Parker has a column called "Lord of the blogs". I only have one thing to say about her "column": go to the hot place, you idiotarian asshat. IMPORTANT UPDATE: It has come to this site's attention that Parker had been including this site in the list of "many brilliant...
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December 15, 2005
First of all, I'd like to thank the 150 or so people who voted for this site in its Weblog Awards category. Unfortunately, this site ended up in seventh place with 5.42% of the vote. Obviously, that's not that good, especially considering that I've been a bit of a pioneer...
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December 10, 2005
I may have to shut down my Huffington Post satire site because what's going on at the HuffPost itself is an even better satire than even I could come up with. To wit: Arbitrary Justice by... Bianca Jagger. She's supporting clemency for Tookie Williams. On the other hand, Arianna herself...
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December 06, 2005
I can't believe how far behind this site is in the Weblogs Awards. Please vote each day as described here....
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December 05, 2005
Please vote for this site here. And, please also vote for our sister site BoreAmerica.com in this category. I note that those sites in the Best "Humor"/Comics Blog (quotes added) category are a bit... broad in their humor. For something quite a bit more subtle, check out my Huffington Post...
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December 04, 2005
If I were going to create a fake blog that represented many of the things that are wrong with the medium, it might look something like this. She's pretty hot even if that's not her body, but... c'mon. Note also that her page contains around 130 various graphical doodads which...
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December 03, 2005
The LAT has promulgated "Blogging L.A.", and, no, it's not as bad as you would think: it's even worse. They give the shout out to several recommended sites: Finding the jewels among Los Angeles' thousands of blogs can take some doing. This is a highly selective list of some of...
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December 01, 2005
The page "What Your Blog is Worth" has an interesting scatterplot attempting to show how much traffic you need in order to make some amount of money with blogging. He bases that solely on annualized income from BlogAds, using the prices various bloggers charge and how many ads they have...
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November 21, 2005
Dear blogger: If trackbacks at your site have the nofollow tag on them, and I send you a trackback, I will put a nofollow tag on my link. Otherwise, I'd be giving you a good link, and you'd be giving me nothing in return. This is just an attempt to...
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November 06, 2005
The Huffington Post is trying out a new tactic in order to stifle political debate and silence the other side. Unlike other similar leftie attempts, it doesn't involve violence or coersion. In fact, those who choose to remain silent will do so voluntarily. For the preview of this tactic, see...
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November 01, 2005
MediaMatters for America has set its "always"-accurate eye on perky Katie: On the October 31 edition of NBC's Today, co-host Katie Couric baselessly suggested that newly named Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is "a strict constructionist" who "will interpret the Constitution literally." Couric's comment marked at least the...
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October 28, 2005
While struggling to understand this web thingy, sexy Greek siren/Web entrepreneuse Arianna Huffington seems to have put part of her site behind a secret, members-only wall. If you go to their Newswire Archive, at the present time you'll see links to this week's coverage and a search box. What you...
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October 23, 2005
Because America needs strong, capable leadership. I am, of course, kidding, but feel free to buy a button or a T-shirt from that store....
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The last thing we need is a Bush family crony on the United States Supreme Court. (This is here for obscure blogospheric reasons.)...
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October 19, 2005
Wow! This is big news! Several bloggers - led by Matt Margolis of Blogs for Bush - will be blogging live from "Bloggers' Row" at the Capitol on 10/20! According to the invitation he received from the House Republican Conference: For the first time ever, Bloggers are invited to meet...
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October 13, 2005
Now, where else do you think you'd find a thread with that title but here? Au revoir, ma DUmmette....
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October 09, 2005
Our favorite BushBot is back with a shocking column: I was chatting with an administration insider over the weekend. During a sidebar in the conversation, it was intimated to me that President Bush's favorite late-night snack was a "shit sandwich" with tartar sauce on the side. That encouraged me to...
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October 01, 2005
Did you think the low-point of Huffington Post came when Randall Robinson uttered these memorable words? It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Well, you're only part right. While it's extremely difficult to find an actual low point of the sexy...
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September 29, 2005
I'm going to spell this site's name out since I don't want to link to bad neighborhoods: rent - a - d i l d o.com. If you remove the spaces from that string, you'll find a nicely designed site that might fool a fair number of people. It appears...
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September 27, 2005
A few days ago, this site quietly celebrated its third anniversary. Very shortly thereafter, traffic picked up markedly, due to a bit of a fluke involving people searching for the picture provided here. Slightly good for my gigantic ego, but a) this is a news and politics blog, and...
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September 15, 2005
It used to be that the Huffington Post approved almost every comment I left on the blog side of things. Then, after they started their Katrina coverage, there were very few comments on the blog side, and what there were were complimentary. While some brave souls appeared to let most...
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September 10, 2005
The loony libertarians at Reason Magazine's Hit & Run are now using the braindead nofollow tag on links in comments. See this for just some of the reasons why that's an idiotic idea. Pending clarification, I'm going to put Reason's decision in the "psychological affliction/what else do you expect libertarians...
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August 31, 2005
"cthrumatrix" offers us We need "one dot connected for MIHOP" New Orleans disaster & impeachment. "MIHOP" stands for "made it happen on purpose". The case for MIHOP consists of four points: 1. "Bush received a 2001 national disaster update." One of those concerned NOLA. 2. A 2004 report to Bush...
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August 30, 2005
For "just" $25, I can get a text link (javascript, not a direct 'a href', not that a week would do me much good if it were) on MotherJones.com for a week. Considering the CTR, it's not such a bad deal, but even so... I'm seriously considering it in order...
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August 27, 2005
The Southern Poverty Law Center has responded to a post from her about the Ranch Rescue controversy. You really need to read their reply to believe it. Her post and their email are in Gaza in Arizona: How "Civil Rights" Lawyer Morris Dees Seized American Land For Illegal Aliens. (I...
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Today in DUmmy News: The poll question "Is Hugo Chavez is the greatest world leader so far in the 21st century?" [sic] has the following results: Yes, 32 votes. No, 24 votes. And, they respond to the news that the Dallas school board has voted to require bilingual principals in...
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August 25, 2005
A trip to wacky DUmmyland is always a treat, and the thread "Chavez Dismisses Robertson Death Wish, Offers 'Medical Aid' to U.S. Poor!" is an extra special treat. Our friend in Venezuela has made a most generous offer: ...Chavez said what did concern him was the level of poverty of...
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August 19, 2005
[UPDATE: In the comments, Matt Welch says this was a technical glitch. The last time this happened I sent an email to Tim Cavanaugh and my second email with my screen name didn't get a reply and the comment never showed up. The comment in this case has not shown...
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August 17, 2005
The HuffPo has a new look. They've also added a bunch of ads to their news side: a top banner, a skyscraper in the upper right, a google skyscraper further down, a big fastclick square after the third post, and yet another fastclick square between each individual post and its...
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August 14, 2005
The purported secret project designed to completely discredit any libertarian form of thought, otherwise known as Reason Magazine, has banned fellow blogger Xrlq from commenting there. This blog stands in solidarity with comrade Xrlq against the loony libertarians....
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August 08, 2005
I'm really sick of blogs. So, please take this opportunity to herein list your favorite - or least favorite - sites which are not blogs. These must be sites that never use the word "blog", "blogger", "blogosphere", or any of the other sickeningly cutesy words those odious people use....
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August 07, 2005
Yes, you can! In fact, you can comment on the posts made by Insty, Sully, Josh, Mickey, and all the rest over at BigMediaBlog. It's like a forum, except it's just designed for one thing: to provide (unauthorized of course!) comments for sites that don't have comments. Every day there's...
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August 06, 2005
Have you ever thought about just how weird it is to see people posing with giant sea creatures? Well, you might not have done that, but I have. And, that's why I started a new site: fishosaur.com. Check it out and let me know what you think....
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August 05, 2005
Why do I waste my time trying to help people who are apparently unable to appreciate my (more or less) worthwhile advice? A recent example comes from radio host Phil Hendrie. You'd think that if a famous blogger such as myself starts offering not just advice but a link, Hendrie...
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August 04, 2005
Fulfilling his quota of discussing vitally important matters once every month or two, Insty informs us about a new blog covering immigration matters: Beyond Borders. Scroll down to the bottom or peel back the URL and what do we find? A Special Report on Immigration by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin...
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August 03, 2005
Their message control is getting pretty funny. Perhaps I should start a new category just for my comments that they've deleted. The latest is the comment I left in "In NY Times book review, Posner rehashed tired "liberal media" claims". Yes, of course I saved my comment: If you go...
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August 01, 2005
Earlier I had a post here in which I said some rather unfortunate things about Andrew Sullivan. I used some strong language and some scurillous innuendo. I have removed that post and I deeply regret making those statements, most of which I believe are not completely true. I do, however,...
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July 28, 2005
And, Phil Hendrie might be about to learn his first major web lesson: don't announce your future URL until you've registered that URL and possible variations. I believe his blog is going to be at georgewbushisgod.com. At post time that has a NetSol Coming Soon page. However, over at georgebushisgod.com...
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July 20, 2005
This should come in handy, especially since they allow comments....
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Let's say you create an entry on your blog that comments on this post. You give a link to this post and send a trackback*. That's the way trackbacks are supposed to work: they create a reciprocal link between two posts, each referring to the other. But, let's say I...
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July 17, 2005
In past episodes, we've covered tattooing your URL on your forehead, balloon drops, engaging in a high-speed chase with your URL painted on the roof of your car, and putting your pet in a T-shirt with your blog's URL on it and parading it around town. Todays tip is inserting...
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July 16, 2005
Rather than a tip jar, I just want each of my readers to buy several Rejuvenique RJV10KIT Facial Toning Mask Kits. Note that that fine kit is currently or formerly endorsed by Linda Evans, TV Megastar. Whatever you do, pay no attention to this page, this page, this page...
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July 15, 2005
To the best of my knowledge, even the Huffington Post has published and not deleted the several comments I've left there, even on their moderated threads. However, MediaMatters for America - the outfit that receives funding from George Soros - has deleted my comments in the past, and it looks...
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July 14, 2005
I don't want to disturb their fragile attempts to come to their senses, so don't everyone click on the following link. Maybe, copy and paste it instead of just clicking on it. The DUmmyland thread "Non-Mexicans arrested at U.S. border nearly doubled" has a few of the usual kneejerk comments,...
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July 12, 2005
I haven't had any of those nagging 500 Internal Server Errors today, so perhaps the author of DBD::mysql has finally fixed the problem and done so in a way that cPanel can automatically update itself with the new version. I also have a plea that's driving me wacky. Did you...
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June 30, 2005
There are so very many angles with which to approach this, but let's try this one. Which of these do you think has a post at the HP? 1. Dr. Phil 2. John Edward (the spiritualist, not the VP candidate) 3. Deepak Chopra 4. the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi If you...
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Once every month or two, America's favorite blogger turns his attention to the most critical issue facing this nation. This time around he links to a Mickey Kaus blurb about Bush's "Amnesty" Magnet, which discusses the story we posted here two days ago about the Border Patrol survey showing 45%...
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June 29, 2005
Because you believe in personally enforced diversity, even if it's not 100% accurate....
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June 22, 2005
Please, please burst, little bubble, burst! From "AO/Technorati Open Media 100": AlwaysOn and Technorati are pleased to present the first annual "Open Media 100," the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution... The purpose of this list is to provide an initial,...
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June 19, 2005
Once you achieve a certain level of "liberal" eliteness, you can do things like the following: I'm sure one of Arianna's manservants will be along presently to rectify this situation. In the meantime, visit Huff and Blow. If I start getting visitors I might update it....
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June 17, 2005
Let's turn that question on its head: should you link to discoverthenetwork.com, or should you link to the version with www? Wait, there are even more choices ahead. You can also link to either version in the .net and .org TLDs. And, it gets even better, because you can link...
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June 13, 2005
If you go to G00g|e and search for $pr|nger rad|o (as in Jerry $pr|nger, of course: replace $ and | with letters), you'll find that another Lonewacko project, BoreAmerica.com is currently #6. Wow, I've finally made the Big Time. Except, as I discuss in "Jerry Springer radio career questioned", it's...
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June 11, 2005
How DUmb are the DUmmies when it comes to illegal immigration? About as DUmb as they are about other things. To see how sheep-like and gullible some DUmmies are, check out the MSNBC story "'Minutemen' gear up for mainstream movement". Notice anything interesting about the accompanying photo by Robert King...
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May 27, 2005
Yes, you read it here first. "Dr. Nate Obaseki" just left a comment, and he wants you to know that his group deals on raw materials and export into Europe/America. They want representatives who can "help us establish a medium of getting to our clients in America/Europe as well as...
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May 25, 2005
Media Matters - which admits it receives money from George Soros - appears to have deleted several comments from this thread about Bill O'Reilly discussing Harvard's plan to spend $50 million to promote "faculty diversity." O'Reilly said: "Any woman who signs on to work at Harvard gets 100 pair of...
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May 23, 2005
How does Insty post all those informative posts? AutoBlogger! AutoBlogger is a powerful content-authoring software tool designed for online columnists and bloggers. Upon installation, AutoBlogger uses a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithm to 'read' the public entries of your journal/blog to triangulate a sense of your writing style. From that point...
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May 17, 2005
If you're wearing glasses, could you misadjust them so your vision is slightly blurred? Or, if you aren't could you blink your eyes or do something else to achieve the same blurred effect? Then, read the following: I recently flew from Boston to Oakland on AmericaWest airlines. This is the...
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May 12, 2005
A few days ago, Blogs For Bush, aka "Kool-Aid Central", announced the winners of their... stamp contest. I kid you not. The emotionally immature, ideologically insecure fanboys at B4B had a contest to design a George W. Bush stamp. The winner's at the link. The picture to the right...
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Mon bleu! Un bloggeur est sous attaque par les forces de Puteaux! Donatez vous tout de suite, mon cheries. J'attends le couverature de mon ami l'hack d'instant. L'UPDATE: Oouups: je m'ai fait realizer que le blogge Boing Boing a deja couvrit cette affaire, donc ceci n'est pas un scoup. Mon...
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May 11, 2005
Over at Huff And Blow, I've been trying to satirize the concept of Arianna Huffington's new site. Unfortunately, I'm having a bit of an identity crisis here. But, it's more than that. I fear I'm having trouble with reality itself. I know that Ariadne Huffanan, Zeke Whittle, and Cudahy Patel...
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May 09, 2005
I see that Ariadne Huffanan - the famous columnist, thinker, author, educator, activist, and former candidate for honorary mayor of Brentwood - has started a new blog: HuffAndBlow.com One of this blog's favorite "video stars" has joined her as well. None other than socialite and motel heiress Cudahy Patel will...
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April 15, 2005
The blog BoingBoing usually concentrates on semi-interesting but ultimately worthless junk. However, they occasionally swerve into politics, and it's usually about as funny as watching your average celebrity with their average IQ discussing something like farm subsidies. Their latest attempt at commentary is a post on the Minuteman Project from...
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April 13, 2005
I'm still getting the occasional hit at BoreAmerica.com from a year-old Wonkette entry about Air America. Curious about the numbers at the end of that last URL, I visited Wonkette's home page and looked at the last five entries. These are the numbers at the end of their URLs: 039802...
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April 05, 2005
The DUmmies have had and have currently several threads on the Minuteman Project. Here are a few of the recent ones: A POLL: Will You Be Joining The "Minutemen" To Defend The Fatherland? ("liberal" humor with a tip o' the hat to Godwin, gotta love it!) About the latest immigration...
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April 04, 2005
I provide yet another reason to distrust Wikipedia in this post at BoreAmerica. Previous coverage of Wikipedia starts here....
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March 28, 2005
I posted an entry entitled Welcome to "North America" over at Michelle Malkin's new group blog The Immigration Blog. It concerns the recent meeting in Waco between Bush, Fox, and Martin to announce the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and what Fox - and perhaps Bush - are...
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March 26, 2005
I want to set up a blog at tolstoy.com. I currently have three MovableType blogs, all of which fit under MT's non-commercial banner: this one, BigMediaBlog.com, and BoreAmerica.com. Since the blog at tolstoy.com would be construed as commercial and it would put me over my three blogs/person limit anyway, I...
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March 25, 2005
Over at BoreAmerica, a surprising number of comments (9!) have been left about Air America radio coming to Dallas and Austin. Feel free to join in....
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March 22, 2005
While searching for something else, I came across this year-old thread all about comments being deleted from KoolAid Central, a.k.a. BlogsForBush.com. Matt Margolis responds with this comment: It's interesting how a few people have wasted a decent amount their time and energy accusing B4B of censoring opposing views. It comes...
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March 21, 2005
If blogging has been light these past few days, it's because I've been obsessively working on a new site: food312.com. The regular blogging schedule shall resume later today....
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March 14, 2005
Here, I just made them a nifty graphic they can proudly display on their web sites: (In case you don't know what this is about, see "The George Soros/Media Matters/David Brock network discovered")...
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March 07, 2005
Insty directs our attention to the an article in the Tennessean entitled "World-wide recipe swap". In the following excerpt, see if you can notice the slight change I've made to their text in order to elevate this blog above the rest: ...Blog is a shortened version of "Web log," which...
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Just as long as they aren't "spiritual" polygamists or from Utah, that is....
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Today's low hanging fruit watch discusses a thread that tries to call FreeRepublic a hate group and, in the process, reveals a bit more about DU than they might have expected. Read all about it in today's DU thread at BigMediaBlog.com. By the way, each day BigMediaBlog.com posts threads where...
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March 04, 2005
What's that you say? You disagree? Well, then have I got a site for you: BigMediaBlog. Every day, BigMediaBlog posts threads where you can comment on mistakes made by Big Media bloggers like Instapundit and DailyKos. Even if you just disagree with something they said, post a comment. Or, leave...
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March 02, 2005
Those of you who remember the old green/white monstrosity will no doubt welcome the new look of The Lonewacko Blog. I took the three-column stylesheet from here, combined it with the existing MovableType stylesheet and templates, et voila. I was going for a desert look, but it's not quite there...
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March 01, 2005
Yeah, she's hot but it's clearly a staged shot. (Also posted in today's Instapundit post at BigMediaBlog)...
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What does this guy do? Driving from Idaho to Minnesota, hobnobbing with BushBots, getting smashed with "Hitch", printing propaganda pictures, and now he's just back from Puerto Rico. Does anyone know what exactly this guy does? Is he CIA or something?...
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In the mood for some entertainment? Head on over to today's DU thread at BigMediaBlog where this hour's wackiest "liberal" comments have been captured for your enjoyment....
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February 27, 2005
There are so many entertaining Democratic Underground threads I posted all of them over in today's DU entry at BigMediaBlog. The titular comment about Ward Churchill, the DUmmies trying to portray the BTK killer as a Republican, a fun poll, and even a call to remove "hate speech" (such as...
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February 26, 2005
Other than resource issues related to DOS-style spam attacks, comment spam isn't that big of a problem around here because: 1. I've installed MT-Blacklist. 2. I use MySQL to quickly delete large numbers of spam comments. Regarding #2, here are some common commands. You'll need to connect to your server...
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February 25, 2005
If you're reading this, you're at the right location. Those who are accessing this blog as tolstoy.com/lonewacko will be forever stuck in time. The correct address is just lonewacko.com. The tolstoy.com/lonewacko pages will stay as a backup, but they won't be updated. Likewise, BigMediaBlog is just BigMediaBlog.com and BoreAmerica.com is...
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Some of the DUmmies are voluntarily shipping themselves off to the gulags: "I'm kind of sick of this homophobia on DU" and "How I know Ann Coulter is not a man"...
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February 23, 2005
I'm moving both sites to another host, and it will take 24 to 48 hours for the new DNS information to propagate. If you can reach them and they don't look normal, that's because they haven't been setup yet. They both should be back online Friday or Saturday. This blog...
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[The following is a guest commentary from guest blogger "RedAmerika"] First, I'd like to thank Lonewacko for allowing me here, reactionary running dog that he is. Now, to the subject of my post. I see that the corporate lackey bourgeoisie at "Wampum" have selected the winners of the Koufax Awards...
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"Sabra", a 1000+ poster over at DU, asks "Has Gannon found a date yet for this years WHCA Dinner?" To their slight credit, the "liberals" don't join in on a jolly good round of Gannon jokes: the thread only got one reply. That reply suggests Ann Coulter as a potential...
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February 22, 2005
From the leftie wall of shame at DiscoverTheNetwork: (Note that the top and bottom halves are from different sections of the wall, and that Horowitz responds to critics of the wall here. Berresford is the head of the Ford Foundation, so maybe in her case as well.)...
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FYI: KoolAidCentral is no longer blueberry flavor, it now comes in the KoolAid Clear variety....
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10 out of 17 DUmmies expressing an opinion want a Spanish-language section of their website. One wonders why they would want such a section. In other DU poll news, 126 DUmmies voted on the question "Is the b**sh administration fascist?" The results were quite surprising: ten of those voted "no."...
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February 19, 2005
She's a special dog, and you love her. That's why her jewelry is important. Sure, you could buy cheap costume jewelry, but what if it causes all her hair to fall off or something? No, what you want is the "Small Crystal Dog Collar, 15" by Paris Hilton". This...
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February 17, 2005
The two best DU threads of the day are highlighted over at BigMediaBlog.com in today's DU thread. Each day, BigMediaBlog.com has over a dozen threads where you can comment on what Insty, DailyKos, DU, BlogsForBush, the NYT, the LAT, and many more are writing about. If one of those sources...
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I've moved BigMediaBlog.com to a new host, but that might just be a temporary move because I'm not too happy with that host. More on that later. In the meantime, visit BigMediaBlog.com and comment on today's posts by over a dozen big media outlets and bloggers: Insty, DailyKos, DemocraticUnderground, etc....
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February 16, 2005
Since BigMediaBlog is still down during its move to a new host, we're conducting today's DU thread here. When you see a post at DU with the title My son was called a "cracker" at school today you might expect a few people to be shocked at the racism. However,...
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Live! Tonight's fights are being broadcast live from the Rand Center in beautiful Manorland, New Hampshire! Tonight's feature fight is doughty libertarian Cathy Young vs. sprightly liberal Eric Alterman! In the undercard, Michael Young faces off against Justin Raimondo. Let's get ready to rumble..... zzzzzzzzzzz.........
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February 15, 2005
UPDATE: BigMediaBlog.com is back....
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OK, well maybe that's over selling it. But, judge for yourself over in today's DU category at BigMediaBlog. Each day, BigMediaBlog has over a dozen threads where you can comment on posts at sites that don't have comments or that have restrictive comments policies: Insty, DailyKos, DU, TPM, Kausfiles, Sully,...
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February 13, 2005
They're highlighted in today's DU post at BigMediaBlog. Leave your own comments about the day's posts from Insty, DailyKos, and a dozen more....
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February 11, 2005
Live coverage of Ward Churchill on Air America's Mike Malloy show commences at 10pm Pacific here....
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February 08, 2005
Here are even more pictures of KCAL's weathergal Jackie Johnson....
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February 07, 2005
While other bloggers are cashing in with fluff spin-offs, The Lonewacko Blog concentrates on doing good and keepin' it real. In addition to this blog, visit BoreAmerica to keep up with the latest news about Air America. And, every day BigMediaBlog posts threads where you can comment on mistakes made...
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I don't know how long this trackback will be allowed to stay here, but if you're reading this please let me know whether this blog is real or not. I went to lincolnfry.com, and at the bottom it says it was produced by the McDonald's Corporation, which I'm pretty sure...
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Everything Instapundit and DailyKos post is 100% correct. If you disagree, go find something they're wrong about and post about it on BigMediaBlog.com. Every day there are open threads for over a dozen big bloggers and big media outlets, including Instapundit, DailyKos, the NYT, the LAT, the WaPo, and many...
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February 05, 2005
John S. Bolton comments on NYT's drive for diversity in the NYT category over at BigMediaBlog. Each day, BigMediaBlog tries to keep the Big Media honest. But, we need your help. If you spot a post at Instapundit or DailyKos or one of a dozen other sites and it's just...
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February 03, 2005
Here it is. BigMediaBlog is the site for your comments. Did a major blogger make a mistake? Do you disagree with one of their posts? Leave your comments about it in one of the posts over at BigMediaBlog. If you blogged about it, leave a link there. Here are the...
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February 01, 2005
And that's saying something. Here it is: hal fishman, ktla news, divorced? I'm sure even Hal has "fans" who'd like to get a "ride" in his plane. I just don't want to know about it....
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January 28, 2005
I debated a bit before deleting this comment: Its the second time I visited your web site. Looks interesting. However, Id recommend you thought of a new design. Since the provided URL goes to a sports betting site and this was left on a year-old post, I decided that, despite...
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January 27, 2005
Yesterday, Instapundit linked to a post about Rep. David Dreier's social security card proposal. That post is at a group blog known as Liberty & Power which is part of the "History News Network", which doesn't appear to be a cable TV network, just a web site spun off from...
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January 22, 2005
The latest blogospheric craze is the "nofollow" tag. This is added to the HTML of links left in comments on blogs. The hoped-for use is to make leaving spam comments unprofitable: google and other search engines will not use links so marked to compute a site's PageRank. The upsides, downsides,...
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January 21, 2005
Controversy opens Harvard blog meet: WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - An invited group of bloggers and journalists began a two-day conference Friday morning at Harvard University amid cold weather (3 degrees) and controversy. Alex Jones, head of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, acknowledged "contentious" comments have been...
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January 20, 2005
Say hello to gopbloggers.com, or as they shall be henceforth noted here, GahpBlawgerz.com. Yes, two slightly disgusting series of phonemes that sound even worse together. GahpBlawgerz.com is from blogsforbush.com, the same site that frequently deletes my comments, the last one noted here and one of their more wacky posts noted...
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Welcome doughty visitors who are using [the old address] rather than lonewacko.com! It appears that I let the lonewacko.com domain name expire. Fortunately, it had entered the redemption period. Unfortunately, I had to pay a $50 restoral fee to re-register it, in addition to the normal registration fee. My registrar...
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January 18, 2005
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January 12, 2005
I've never used this tent but for $127 it certainly seems like a bargain. See the four reviews here, and note that this is a three-season tent and that sometimes tent designs and manufacturing conditions change from year to year. Amazon has several other tents, including Biblers in case...
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January 10, 2005
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" looks like an interesting book: From a reader's review: ...Although not a substitute for a comprehensive U.S. history, it effectively refutes many of the more common claims by leftists, such as the Puritans were racists and the U.S. Constitution was meant to prohibit...
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January 08, 2005
OK, so there's reportedly a stridency problem, and smoking, meat, and smoking meat are right out. And, she purports to have never heard of National Review. Does it really matter? My recommendation: buy both The Wishing Chair (link) and Hope Chest (link), and compare and contrast at leisure: ...
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On the other hand: The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating is a certified "foodie" classic. In it, Fergus Henderson -- whose London restaurant, St. John, is a world-renowned destination for people who love to eat "on the wild side" -- presents the recipes that have marked him out...
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January 07, 2005
Some pesky little nerd who has administrative privileges at Wikipedia has twice deleted an entry I placed there. Here's more on the nerd ("Neutrality"): My name is Neutrality (real name: Ben). I have been a Wikipedian since I was first welcomed by Meelar on May 15, 2004. On October 12,...
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I don't know if that relatively easy Simpson's trivia question is in "The Trivial Simpsons 2005 365-Day Box Calendar", but I'm sure with 365 trivia questions there's enough to keep you busy....
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due for release on July 16, 2005. But, you can preorder it now and avoid the rush!...
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January 06, 2005
Remember the series that ran on PBS? ...
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January 05, 2005
Do you know how to punctuate? I mean, really know how to punctuate? Very few people have that skill, and if you want to improve your punctuation skills, buy "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation": "You don't need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy...
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Could "liberals" use NLP or perhaps involuntary hypnotism to convince people that their arguments have some slight merit? I don't know if "Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives" answers that question, but it was written by a linguist: In...
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January 04, 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due for release on July 16, 2005. But, you can preorder it now and avoid the rush! I haven't read any Harry Potter books, but if you're a fan click the image above and order it. Please....
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December 30, 2004
Here's mine: 1. Post more cheesecake photos like the women's Olympics beach volleyball pics available in this category. 2. Cont