Archives for the 'blogs' Category
Mountain Makeover
Published on 30 Sep 2009 at 8:30 am.
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Everybody’s favorite West Virginian savant, Don Surber, has hauled away the lawn ornament he had on blocks (thank you, Cash for Clunkers), straightened the shutters, propped up the porch, got all the chickens back in the coop and otherwise dressed up his site. Which is now decorated with conservative cheesecake.
All the righteous West By God Virginia [...]
Sullivanology Finals, With A Greenwald Pop Quiz
Published on 24 Jun 2009 at 7:14 am.
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I’ve dabbled a little in Sullivan mockery. Make way for a maestro. Professor of Sullivanology Christopher Badeaux, The New Ledger. It’s an academic, footnoted deconstruction of the unprincipled mountebank know as Andrew Sullivan, but like the best of modern scholarship, is highly readable:
Rarely in human history has a gay man been that obsessed with a married woman’s [...]
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Piece Of Work In Progress
Published on 17 Jun 2009 at 2:30 am.
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Filed under America, ancient mysteries, blogs.
Great name of the new blog of the funny and weird Dan Collins, a.k.a. Vermontaigne, because he lives in that state somewhat left and north of where I am currently located that was for some weird part of its history not even part of the United States. When every other state around it was.
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Nation Of Seventh Graders
Published on 9 Jun 2009 at 10:17 am.
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Filed under BS, blogs.
I’m a little late to this Whelan-Publius party, but as long as the great blogosphere is speaking, I’ll add my voice. I don’t understand why Whelan needs to apologize for identifying a law professor who thinks he can engage in public debate and orchestrate a targeted attack on Whelan under a false name. I think the law [...]
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The Meaning Of Life, The Universe & Everything
Published on 4 Jun 2009 at 7:10 am.
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Filed under blogs, deep thot, everything.
Get yours here.
I’m ranked No. 42 in the Top 100 Wikio political blogs, by an algorithm that “puts everyone in the same pot. The list has mainstream media blogs — from ABC News, CNN, The New York Times, and others — alongside well-known partisan bloggers — Michelle Malkin, FireDogLake — and even government-run bloggers, like [...]
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Top Ten
Published on 21 May 2009 at 12:13 pm.
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I just made Viralogy’s painstakingly scientific Top Ten Political Blogs list! Now, where’s my $4.95 so I can get a venti mocha latte?
Cheap Date
Published on 17 May 2009 at 10:35 pm.
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Filed under blogs, hacks, media.
Maureen Dowd rips off Josh Marshall. Pretty lame. She apparently claims inadvertence, but it looks kinda … I dunno … advertent. Advertently lame, that is. She claims didn’t know she was ripping off the Talking Points Memo blogger. She thought she was just letting a pal do the heavy lifting while she phoned it in. [...]
Marie Osmond’s Lesbian Daughter
Published on 7 May 2009 at 11:40 pm.
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Filed under McCain, blogs, science.
This post actually has nothing to do with Marie Osmond or her lesbian daughter. This is actually part of a serious blogological experiment proposed by my colleague, the Other McCain, to see measure our ability to influence the algorithm on one small part of the Googlesphere.
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Smarter Than The View
Published on 7 May 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Filed under blogs, boobs, butts, celeb, conservatism.
The Other McCain gives a shoutout to a new right-leaning news aggregator by a couple of guys who are probably smarter than the combined cast of The View minus Elizabeth Hasselback. Wow, that almost sounds like high praise. McCain calls it “Conservative Poltical Report,” but we don’t go to McCain for his spelling. We go there to ponder [...]
Site Of The Day
Published on 28 Apr 2009 at 10:34 am.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, blogs.
Thanks, Conservative Grapevine, much appreciated. It would have to be a day I slept in due to late duties … paying attention to Massachusetts legislators’ preference for dunning us rather than detaching their layabout relatives from the public tit, plus a couple of updates re this damned swine flu. Schweinflu if you ask me. Exactly what we [...]
Quid Pro Quo Sought
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 11:05 pm.
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Lefty bloggers tired of being saps for lefty PACs, non-profits and Dems, would rather be whores. Greg Sargent, WP’s The Plumline.
“They come to us, expecting us to give them free publicity, and we do, but it’s not a two way street,” Jane Hamsher, the founder of FiredogLake, said in an interview. “They won’t do anything [...]
Crittenden’s Boutique Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop & General Store
Published on 1 Apr 2009 at 12:28 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, blogs, books, literary, money, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
You’ll notice the Pajamas Media ads at top and at left have been replaced by Amazon widgets. This is because PJM has discontinued its blog advertising network, of which I was an arm’s length member.
My non-exclusive contract paid less than the usual deal, but allowed me to pursue other advertising relationships. I never did the math to figure out whether [...]
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Froggy Sighting
Published on 20 Mar 2009 at 8:14 pm.
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The Dissident Frogman comes up for air. Last seen dispensing bear-country survival tips for chicks, we were concerned something untoward might have befallen everyone’s favorite Gaul. Turns out he was just in a bigger funk than most of us over … recent events. The necessary adjustment to mocking and hurling abuse at a sitting U.S. president, [...]
I, Teleprompter
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:13 pm.
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Filed under Obama, blogs.
Obama’s eliminates the middle man. Or bypasses, for the moment, to put it more diplomatically, in order to speak for himself. Tired of taking the fall. Chalk up another for Isaac Asimov, who pretty much predicted this would happen. I think we may have a Law 1 violation here:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through [...]
Just Ask Don
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:15 am.
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You’ll be glad you did. He’s got most of the questions, and all the answers.
Dawn Over Firedoglake?
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 1:40 pm.
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Not exactly, but it’s a start. Lefty blog* rails “Who stole our country and how are we going to get it back?” positing our democracy is seriously broken. It’s an odd statement considering the source. We just had an election, your side won, and your guy appointed the two people you’re complaining about, Geithner and Summers, the [...]
Righteous, Gentile
Published on 23 Feb 2009 at 11:26 pm.
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This site makes the Jewish Press Media Monitor’s list of worthwhile websites … twice. That’s 100 percent more approval than Instapundit, Powerline, LGF, RCP and a bunch of other great sites got, though I see Israpundit’s up for double honors, too. But before any of us get to congratulating ourselves, The New Republic, Huffington Post and Media Matters are also on [...]
We Have Seen The Enemy And He Is Us
Published on 28 Jan 2009 at 1:25 pm.
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Filed under blogs, military.
US Naval Institute Blog espies the Jolly Roger.* Officers seen muttering amongst themselves on the quarter deck, petty officers shouting, swabs scurrying about, gunports opening:
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Employment Sought
Published on 27 Jan 2009 at 11:45 am.
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Filed under Hollywood, blogs, celeb, illegals.
Iowahawk kindly allows Rosa Ortiz to guestblog her job search. No end to the civic-mindedness as the expanding Iowahawk franchise offers some green advice to Hollywood at yet another gig, Big Hollywood.
Responsible, Professional, Fact-Based, Emotion-Free Blogging
Published on 26 Jan 2009 at 7:20 am.
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Advocated by Navy big who, like me, appreciates Small Wars Journal, where you’ll find him holding forth on blogspecs and the correct attitude and approach to blogification. A career spent in nuclear propulsion and personnel may have left Vice Adm. John C. Harvey underequipped to fully appreciate the ethereal technicolor beauty of the collective societal hurl [...]
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Your Great Support And Readership
Published on 18 Jan 2009 at 8:27 am.
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Filed under blogs, money, shameless opportunism.
Always appreciated. Received a complaint about the site’s loading speed, apparently bogged down by the recent addition of several Amazon widgets. They are a great form of lucrative expression, allowing me to run the boutique armchair warmonger’s bookshop/historical obsessive compulsive disorder clinic I’ve always dreamed of, while making some additional income off an effort that occupies a fair amount of [...]
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“Out Standing In His Field”
Published on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:32 am.
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Filed under blogs, shameless self-promotion.
It’s that time of year and the accolades are piling up like so many horse puckies. But this is among the finest awards this blog has ever received: “Best Armchair Warrior” in the 75th Annual Maggie’s Farm Blog Awards.
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International Blog of the Year
Published on 10 Jan 2009 at 11:08 am.
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Regular readers know I have spitefully rejected my nomination as Weblog Awards Best Individual Blog of 2008, due a long-held, petty grudge over the meaninglessness of a contrived popularity contest that doesn’t adhere to its own rules. I am not opposed to all contests, however, and will proudly accept the 2008 International Blog of the Year Legion de [...]
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Righteous Jihad!
Published on 7 Jan 2009 at 11:08 pm.
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Filed under Jihad, blogs, dhimmi, hated Crusaders.
As you know I don’t support the Weblog Awards and have asked for your non-votes* due to an old grudge I am nursing and the fact that it is a pointless popularity contest that doesn’t follow its own rules. However, I wholeheartedly support Michael Totten’s jihad on the academic more terrorists trust, Juan Cole.
Early Non-Voter Turn-In High
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 9:09 am.
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BREAKING: The British are with us in this one. One of my closest allies, Theo Spark, assures me he won’t vote for this site and is counseling his readers not to do the same.* Thanks Theo! He’s the kind of guy you can count on when you need him, always with a cheery smile, we will fight [...]
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Best Individual Blog 2008 Finalist
Published on 30 Dec 2008 at 1:43 pm.
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Filed under BS, blogs.
Very flattering, and thanks are in order to those of you who kindly nominated this site. However …
(IMPORTANT NON-VOTE RUNNING TALLY BELOW)
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Fifth Estate
Published on 27 Dec 2008 at 10:14 pm.
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Filed under blogs, media.
Reynolds, lacking fire, has a typically dispassionate sneaker party all over a Star-Ledger scribbler who can’t tell punditry from reporting and apparently isn’t aware how indispensible Internet freelancers have become to people who actually want to know what is happening in war zones. For example.
¿Como Se Dice …
Published on 20 Dec 2008 at 3:47 pm.
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.. blog en castellano? La blogista magnífica Fausta ha comenzado su blog latinoamericano en MundoMuyClaro. What, no Chavez jokes? Very informative, could stand to crank up the snark a tad though. OK, so there are these three Russian swabs on shore leave in Havana …
Managing Your Greenwald Relationship
Published on 19 Dec 2008 at 8:50 am.
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The Other McCain has been graced with a Greenwald citation. High honor. If you wish to continue to be mentioned by the (throughly self-documented) great one, it is important that you avoid a few pitfalls. No references to that unfortunate “sockpuppet” affair. Greenwald has an ego so big, the extensive self-adulation of his “about” and [...]
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The Mechanic
Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 9:35 am.
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Filed under blogs, deep thot.
That’s what type of blogger I am, according to the Typealyzer. Independent, problem-solving. Master of the response to the spontaneous challenge.
You Know You’ve Arrived
Published on 23 Nov 2008 at 11:17 am.
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Filed under blogs, free speech.
And you’ve got them scared when they want to regulate you. And/or shut you up. Protein Wisdom on moves to regulate bloggers. Gateway on Holder’s call for “reasonable restrictions” on Internet speech. Meanwhile, Adam Reilly at the Boston Phoenix allows the frothing rightwingers aren’t entirely wrong on the Fairness Doctrine and how that plays into net neutrality. In [...]
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Man Up
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 10:38 am.
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Filed under blogs, men, women.
When your name is Jules, things happen. You get mail addressed to “Ms. Jules Crittenden.” Or, when you’re moonlighting in an alarm call center in a bad part of a rundown New England milltown because your newspaper there didn’t pay enough, and a freight train goes by and sets off every alarm in the building, [...]
Why Palin Matters
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 9:58 pm.
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Filed under blogs, moronocy, pols.
To Andrew Sullivan. It’s an interesting question, because aside from Prop. 8, Palin is almost all you find on his site these days. Blah blah blah, Palin this, Palin that. McCain, GOP in disarray. Obama, post for post, line for line, expended emotion for expended emotion, barely rates, even though it’s his job for the next [...]
Cred
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:18 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.
For Castle Argghhh!!! as a Canadian COIN researcher snags his tale of Hussayn.
Sullivan Watch
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 10:59 am.
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Filed under blogs, pols.
Andrew Sullivan was understandably distraught over the blow to gay marriage in California … Oh No You Don’t. He joins Drum in bemoaning the failure of his guy Obama to take a courageous stand in its defense. In fact, Obama is against it, or says he is, so advocacy would have complicated his message and possibly his [...]
Infidel Blogger Awards
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 8:47 am.
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Filed under Canada, blogs, hated Crusaders.
Important new Canadian blogger award. Note hurtful Anglophilic, pro-Crusader use of St. George’s Cross, not a maple leaf in sight. Obviously Steyn is this year’s big winner, but I am sure there must be a lot of other Canadians hurting people’s feelings out there. I’m a big fan of Small Dead Animals … a woman who speaks her mind and drives [...]
Grand Old Party
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 10:52 pm.
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Filed under Australia, Obama, blogs, mockery.
Sounds like what Iowahawk and Tim Blair have in mind in Obamatown. iHawk:
Award-winning Australian journalist Tim Blair of the Sydney Daily Telegraph is currently en route to Chicago where he will make base camp at my shack to cover Chicago election night folderol for readers back Down Under …. will be joining Tim on assignment Tuesday [...]
Dean Barnett 1967-2008
Published on 27 Oct 2008 at 8:54 pm.
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A good guy. Hewitt has an appreciation at Town Hall, where he had been a house blogger prior to going to the Weekly Standard. He was local, but the couple of times we planned to link up it didn’t work out. You always figure maybe next time, so I only knew him through emails and blogging.
Reynolds’ Rage
Published on 11 Oct 2008 at 9:51 pm.
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Filed under Bush, McCain, blogs, media.
He doesn’t let it out much, but when he does …
McCain Bash
Published on 27 Sep 2008 at 2:28 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under McCain, blogs, moronocy.
Turns out to be a pile. Andrew Sullivan is compelled to do a grab-back on his claim that McCain spat out a terse “horseshit” as Obama made some ridiculous misrepresentation during the debate. Turns out he said, “‘Course not.” Tragically, in his eagerness for a good McCain tripwire vet rage hit, Sullivan stepped in it:
The Meaning of It All
Published on 18 Jun 2008 at 11:33 pm.
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Apparently it’s going around. Here’s a local regular, Bloodthirsty Liberal, wondering what it all means. He takes a gander at his navel, sees more than lint, will press on. UPDATED:
Theo-Palooza
Published on 2 Jun 2008 at 10:46 pm.
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Filed under Britain, blogs, boobs, history, pols.
Theo shows his deep understanding of the American political situation:
And other important stuff:
Saying Never
Published on 23 May 2008 at 9:31 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under blogs, illegals, pols.
John Hawkins gets exercised over what we always knew about John McCain. He’s soft as an egg on illegal border crossing.
Dawn Patrol
Published on 20 May 2008 at 10:29 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, blogs.
The always great Mudville Gazette goes deep with views into all aspects of the world of war we live in, as seen by those who are in it deeper than most of us. Scroll through today’s here. Interesting piece on Jude Law, not reading from a script, all kinds of good vid and a bad prisoner swap, [...]
US Bashers Wanted
Published on 20 May 2008 at 9:21 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, blogs.
And found! The ACLU lines up the sock puppet and other lefty bloggers to “kick off” their new “Blog of Rights” with a sneaker party all over the Department of Justice re torture. via Stop the ACLU.
Funny, I was mocking the ACLU’s U.S.-bashing bias, distorted sense of proportion and selective reporting just this morning. This new [...]
Blair is Dead, Long Live Blair
Published on 12 May 2008 at 10:36 am.
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Filed under Australia, blogs.
Farewell to www.timblair.net Great Australian blog of which this one is a pale spinoff has shifted digs. Ignore the cruel remarks about selling out, Tim … I’m confident that great Australian-American entrepreneur, Rupert Murdoch, doesn’t needlessly toss around the manhole covers for blog duty.
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Back Again
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 10:47 pm.
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New York is the greatest city on Earth, even if the Yankees play there. Many thanks to this diverse crowd of guestbloggers for allowing me to enjoy it with the wife and kids, while keeping all of us informed, outraged, titillated and in stitches. It wasn’t exactly last year’s wild housesitting bash. Thank God … a lot [...]
Sometimes the Internet stinks…
Published on 23 Apr 2008 at 4:19 am.
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Filed under Hollywood, blogs, culture.
… And sometimes it shines.
Finding Victor Davis Hanson, Frank Miller and Bill Whittle discussing actors and the movie industry in the same thread.
Now I could definitely find worse ways to start the day.
(Scroll down the comments for Miller and Whittle)
UPDATE:
Oh and, if by any chance Frank Miller was to read this: please Sir, drop the [...]
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Buenas noches from an un-lonely room
Published on 22 Apr 2008 at 5:56 pm.
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Filed under assorted shit, blogs, everything, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
…and the bartender says, “Get outta here!”
Oh, wait, is this thing on? Ahem. Greetings. Greyhawk here. Some of you may know me as a long-time milblogger, part time singer/songwriter, or (now) professional book reviewer.
Fewer of you may know that I’m the crack dealer that originally helped pull Jules Crittenden into the blogosphere. Then we went after [...]
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Abouts
Published on 19 Apr 2008 at 9:36 am.
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If you are a blogger, you may well be subject to the delusion that there is no one more fascinating than yourself, no one more astute or clever, and it’s a mystery why the rest of the blogosphere doesn’t get this. I know I am. Nothing like a good “about” to underscore the point and [...]
