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i dislike posting about something just because it's the cable news outrage du jour, or the top whatever at memeorandum.are you kidding? i love linking to the top whatever @ memeorandum! then i click that link about a eleventy-million times, and fool the memeorandum bots into thinking a lot of people are clicking thru via my page, and voila! i get a link @ the top of memeorandum! and a lot of people click thru to my page!
it's almost like a microcosm of american journalism! always feeding off itself! and it sure inflates my traffic stats!
Rain Rich and Muddy to a War
I'm very cranky about the News Cycle -- that is to say, I dislike posting about something just because it's the cable news outrage du jour, or the top whatever at Memeorandum. This is because I dislike feeling like I have been stampeded. There is no question that one of the major problems with ...
maybe she knows she's a terrible gov. and is resigning because she knows the lt. gov. would be better for the state. she's a marvelous and paradoxical blend of dumb and smart. also.
pause.
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(loudly): naaaaah!
There's Something About This I Just Don't Understand ...
by hilzoy Anderson Cooper interviewed Sarah Palin's spokesperson tonight. He asked what Sarah Palin would be doing next. Here's her answer: "STAPLETON: OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of. And what she has said and what she did say in her speech was, just alone, getting o...
i need to go the johns, jasper.
Happy Fourth Everyone
by publius Open thread.
choke up on the bat a little more. also widen your stance.
A Note Going Forward
For the record, my post about burnout was not intended to signal a blog-stoppage. I'm not giving up on anything. I'm adjusting my swing is all.
which one is clinton?
Iron Out All the Creases
Bloggers that go to blogger conferences with Bill Clinton are total tit-having sellouts.
i'm w/those leaning w/tacitus. @ least on saturday cable news sucked on this.
Hooray Hooray for the Twittering Wingnuts
I admit that I used to be skeptical of the power of Twitter to Change the World, but now I am a convert. Anyone who doubts what this potent electronical communications medium can do when it's in the hands of Warriors for Justice needs to check out the Twitter feed of our old playmate Josh "Tac" ...
"which might really help letterman's ratings, at least that night, against his new late-night competition, conan o'brien."
he doesn't need any help. conan's been sinking since his first show & letterman beat him last nite.
http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2009/06/conan-bored-carrion.html
it's the hardly-ever-right wing (of whom the writer of this blog, andrew malcolm, former speech writer for laura bush, is a card-carrying member) that assumed letterman was talking about sex w/a 14 year old when the joke not only didn't talk about willow, but doesn't make any sense comedically if one assumes the subject was willow. it only works if the subject is bristol, the one who had a daughter out of wedlock while practicing abstinence.
Aging man, 62, jokes about girl, 14 (Letterman on Willow Palin) update
(UPDATE: This item has been updated below.) Maybe it's just the tempting ratings window of no longer going up against NBC's Juggernaut Jay and being the also-ran of late-night television. But CBS' David Letterman told a real howler on nationwide TV Monday night that drew gasps from some pare...
well you are all giving whelan way more credit than i would. of course it's up to publius to accept or not accept his apology, and publius has accepted it, so be it.
i, however, am not so quick to give whelan credit for acting in a civil manner, which, after all, is what we expect from everybody in the world. he wants props for acting well? get in line behind the 5 billion other people who are expected to behave.
it's a little too late for mea cuplas, imo. on john cole's blog, commentor forked tongue correctly points out the four parts of a real apology. the step that whelan has left out is reparations of even a symbolic kind (forked tongue recommends a donation to a charity, i assume of publius's choice). saying i'm sorry w/o any actions behind it is hollow.
"yeah, he ran over the four year old, but he was man enough to apologize for it."
as i said elsewhere, in other news, open barn door apologizes to runaway horses.
Moving On
by publius Ed Whelan has written both publicly and privately and apologized. I know it was not an easy thing to do, and it is of course accepted. I therefore consider the matter done, and don't intend on writing about it anymore. The real story here wasn't really about me anyway -- it's about ...
ps. my real name is duncan black.
Thanks All
by publius First, I just want to extend a most sincere thanks for all the comments both on this blog and via email. I wish I could thank you all individually, but I do appreciate the support. Second, I also want to thank the various bloggers who have criticized this action. Dylan Matthews wrot...
cough cough.
but i just pretty much linked to everyone else's posts, so no thanks necessary.
i actually did it for the memeorandum traffic.
Thanks All
by publius First, I just want to extend a most sincere thanks for all the comments both on this blog and via email. I wish I could thank you all individually, but I do appreciate the support. Second, I also want to thank the various bloggers who have criticized this action. Dylan Matthews wrot...
but obama doesn't pay attention to the 24-hour news cycle, and i'm starting to think that about 75% of the american public doesn't, either.
the only people that care about the 24-hour news cycle are those in the news business, and i use the term "news" quite lightly.
both the gop and the "news business" are stuck in last century's paradigm.
hopefully it will mean the demise of both.
Spoken Like a Traffic Cop
What Roy said; I don't think there's much precedent for running against the Speaker of the House as a winning national strategy. I mean, Gingrich made a good punching bag, but that was kind of an own goal, to not merely mix but perhaps viciously splice a sports metaphor. But the point is, who ca...
i've got nothin'.
CLOSED THREAD
Busy today. So this is a CLOSED THREAD. Nobody is allowed to comment on it. STAY OUT OF THIS COMMENTS THREAD. It is a CLOSED THREAD. This MEANS YOU. It is A THREAD FOR ME. MINE! MINE! CLOSED THREAD! If you post in this thread, I WILL TURN THIS BLOG AROUND RIGHT NOW AND GO HOME. IS THAT WHAT YOU ...
i am totally confused by this argument...
"putting the troops in danger."
what? you mean the war might get dangerous?
the troops are already in the most lethal human situation possible, a shooting war. how can it get any worse? the other side kills them twice?
the fundamentalists get really mad?
w/all due respect to our fighting men and women, it's time we stopped using them as an excuse for political agendas.
and, i can't vouche for the authenticity, but newshoggers claims to have found some of the pics (and i posted some @ skippy).
they are not pleasant to look at.
Response
Maha responds to my post the other day about the torture pics thing. I’m about to butt heads, and not with righties. I understand there’s a lot of anger at President Obama because he changed his mind about releasing more prisoner abuse photos. I respect a difference of opinion on this matter. B...
what a crass borish man we have as our president.
is that a man who bores people, as opposed to a boorish man?
or maybe the wingnut meant a boarish man, one who acts in the manner of a wild pig...
Like I Was Saying...
That I correctly predicted this sort of wanking may not exactly make me psychic, but what the hell, I'll take it. Contemptible persons get treated with contempt! Good Lord! Anyway, look, it's funny because it's true: Rush Limbaugh is awful and everyone sane hates him because he's awful, and Dick...
make that "archaic" slang.
it also helps your joke to work if you spell everything correctly.
The Finest Joke Is upon Us
So I just watched Jon Stewart making fun of Obama for grandstanding on the BCS, which just goes to show how much us Leftists enjoy taking hallucinogenic drugs, because in the real world, nobody ever tells Obama jokes! Well, that's a bit unfair. But, I mean, far be it from me to disagree with Bi...
lol! merl beat me to it! i was going to say, maher's joke would have been funny if sammy davis jr. was elected president, but when you use archais slang in a contemporary joke, you deserve to get the bum's rush! 23 skidoo!
The Finest Joke Is upon Us
So I just watched Jon Stewart making fun of Obama for grandstanding on the BCS, which just goes to show how much us Leftists enjoy taking hallucinogenic drugs, because in the real world, nobody ever tells Obama jokes! Well, that's a bit unfair. But, I mean, far be it from me to disagree with Bi...
thx, jb, i'll add it to my netflix queue, which also is backed up.
we waited for 3 months for vicky christina barcelona, which we finally watched last nite.
not worth the wait, i can assure you.
China Moon
by JB My Netflix queue is backed up at least two years. Sometimes this means I'm surprised by movies I forgot I was interested in. Other times it means they send me a movie I just watched on cable the week before. This week's selection, China Moon, is one of the former. When I saw the title I ...
she did not attack those who believe otherwise. she did not insult them. she did not call them names. she merely offered her opinion.
so, if she had said that negros shouldn't be allowed to vote, she'd still be ethically protected by those same caveats?
Oh Dear Lord
Comment would be superfluous: this is the funniest blog post have ever read. Here is "Gay Patriot" on how the Left is being very very mean to Carrie Prejean, the beauty-pageant champion of "opposite marriage." Wait for the last paragraph especially. To see just how far discourse on controversial...
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