Archives for the 'blogs' Category
Party Down
Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 1:09 am.
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Lileks on Facebook 1977. I know I’m not the only one who’s glad none of this existed then. But then, I guess that makes me officially an old fart.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 15 Jul 2007 at 9:22 am.
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So crazy, Crittenden goes straight to the top of Dr. Sanity’s list. Meanwhile, in other Sunday reads:
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Important Reader Poll
Published on 10 Jul 2007 at 12:07 pm.
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Totty-obsessed British reprobate Theo Spark, the Austin Powers of the Blogosphere, needs to know:
Is there too much totty on this blog?
Regrettably SFW, no totty whatsoever at that link. In the interest of a better-informed electorate, past totty here, here, here, here, here and here.
In case you think Theo’s just about totty, click here, here, here and here. [...]
Crazy Week
Published on 8 Jul 2007 at 9:35 am.
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Say yes to lunacy. Sanity check on the week that was.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 1 Jul 2007 at 10:01 am.
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Need to come back down to Earth after Roswell? It isn’t any saner down here.
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Fully Documented
Published on 30 Jun 2007 at 1:00 am.
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Surber’s totally legal Week That Was.
Dr. Helen in Her Pajamas
Published on 27 Jun 2007 at 8:57 am.
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Here. And here. No, it isn’t totty, you perv.
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Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 24 Jun 2007 at 12:11 pm.
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Crazy is as crazy does.
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Week That Was
Published on 23 Jun 2007 at 10:24 am.
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At Surber’s.
Surber’s Week That Was
Published on 16 Jun 2007 at 1:01 am.
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Seven days you’ll never get back. In case you missed them, here’s Surber’s quick take.
The Oxford Medievalist
Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 8:45 pm.
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Filed under academia, blogs.
… just called me “incomparable.” Never been called incomparable by an Oxford medievalist before. Go take his poll on “Which figure had the greatest influence on Western civilization.” It’s a stumper.
Great Blog
Published on 14 Jun 2007 at 11:25 pm.
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Libertyblog. Appears to know his or her Massachusetts legislature, among other things. Somewhat minimalist, or to the point.
h/t on this, which I don’t know how I managed to live this long without ever once contemplating.
And The Winner Is …
Published on 14 Jun 2007 at 11:52 am.
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Filed under Britain, blogs.
… thanks to you, the very naughty Theo Spark, Austin Powers of the Blogosphere, “Most Non-Politically Correct.” Oh, behave!
Hey, that half-naked chick has a Star of David on her chest and American flag trousers! Whose embassy do we burn!?!*
* Unclear whether there’s a semi-serious political point or just some gratuitously inflammatory iconclasty here. I was looking into [...]
Super Totty Tuesday
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 11:06 pm.
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Theo Spark’s dirty tricks campaign for every last vote.
His Toniness
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:34 am.
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Filed under Britain, blogs.
Look for Tony Blair to show up with the Clintons, predicts Theo Spark. Why not, Bush’s dad can’t seem to get enough of Bill. Only Tony will be doing it for cash, not charity, Spark predicts. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to vote for the Austin Powers of the Blogosphere here.
Talibnet
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:05 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, blogs.
Jawa helpfully points out what he says is a Georgia company providing webhosting for the Taliban and provides contact information. Special bonus, purported Taliban email and satphone numbers.
Undefeated Whack-a-Mole Champion
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 8:33 am.
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Don’t mess with the lovely, talented and sagaciously blonde Ala.
More sagacity here.
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Some Quick Sunday Evening Deepthink
Published on 10 Jun 2007 at 9:10 pm.
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For the modern deepthinker on the go, over at Driscoll’s:
Where Displacement Theory Can Lead.
The Demassified Future and Its Enemies.
The Straussian Remnant.
Driscoll uses big words that I don’t understand and yet I come away feeling ensmartened.
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Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 10 Jun 2007 at 8:49 am.
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Watch out, it’s like a minefield of craziness out there.
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The Austin Powers of the Blogosphere
Published on 9 Jun 2007 at 11:42 am.
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… is running neck-and-neck with Devil’s Kitchen for “Most Politically Incorrect.” Study the issues here. Vote here. Then, you can go back and study the issues some more, you perv.
My considered endorsement: There may well be more politically incorrect blogs in this competition, and I invite you to rate and comment on them. Like all good [...]
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Combative, Influential
Published on 6 Jun 2007 at 7:42 am.
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NYT respectfully obits Mr. Gilliard, “combative and influential blogger on the left,” who informed his readers with a “blunt and passionate take on the events of the day.”
Passionately profane, puerile, and often pointless. I like this part:
Capitol Makeover
Published on 4 Jun 2007 at 11:14 am.
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TMV sports a new look. I used to believe in moderation in some things, have dispensed with most of them, notable exception to include my sometimes immoderate pals at the Moderate Voice.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 3 Jun 2007 at 10:29 am.
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Gets crazy.
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Great Voice Silent
Published on 3 Jun 2007 at 10:20 am.
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Steve Gilliard is dead. Here are some of the tributes to one of the great American thinkers of our day. An eloquent and inspiring voice. “Powerful words,” usually beginning with “F,” constituting an “unrelenting moral insistence.”
And here’s some of the eloquence and deep thinking. And his inspirational signature moment.
Insulting him was pointless. The point, of course, was insulting others.
So [...]
Jungle Trader
Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 11:32 pm.
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Filed under asia, blogs.
If you’ve spent any time in the expatriate life, you need to check this guy out. If you haven’t spent any time in the Heart of Darkness or the Great Sandpile or the Fleshpots of Asia, you still need to check out Jungle Trader. Kipling and Maugham teamed up, started blogging. Flashman may be sitting in now [...]
Now in Pajamas
Published on 30 May 2007 at 9:18 pm.
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You may have noticed something different. I’ve joined the Pajamas Media network. In fact we’ve been fellow travellers for some time, as I’ve been writing rants for them for several months now. It’s a mutual kind of thing. You iron my pajamas, I’ll crumple yours. That sounds a little weird. Never mind about that.
The thing about blogging, which [...]
Illegration
Published on 30 May 2007 at 9:11 am.
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Right Wing News blogger poll on illegal border crossing:
5) Do you believe that the bill in the Senate would, if passed, secure
the border and stop the influx of significant numbers of illegal
aliens into the United States?
Yes: (0%)
No: 49 (100%)
Make that 50.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 27 May 2007 at 8:57 am.
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In a world gone mad, you’d have to be crazy to be sane.
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Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 20 May 2007 at 9:30 am.
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As if it wasn’t crazy enough out there.
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Take A Right At The Sand Dune
Published on 15 May 2007 at 8:15 pm.
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Can’t miss it. It’s the one with a camel next to it. Thunder Run opens a Gulf bureau.
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I Did Not Know That
Published on 9 May 2007 at 9:54 am.
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John of Argghhh!!! in addition to running a superlative blog with lots of soldiers’ stories, tributes, news links, technical details and historical gun porn, has the distinction of being ranked No. 1 at Google on a search of “I bayoneted myself.” He was also the “comic relief” at the weekend’s milbloggers conference. I presume Goldfarb meant that [...]
Terror Yuks
Published on 9 May 2007 at 9:14 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, blogs.
Forget fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. Apparently we don’t need to fight them over here, either. At least I think that’s what this ridiculous bit of dog vomit of a post is trying to say.
Lizzie Palmer
Published on 7 May 2007 at 8:46 am.
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Wildly popular vid reportedly by a 15-year-old girl from Ohio, if you haven’t seen it yet. Kleenex alert.
And Robert Stokely on his son Sgt. Mike Stokely. Vid with a roundup from the Milbloggers Conference at Blackfive
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 6 May 2007 at 5:17 pm.
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Monkey crazy.
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“Tales of Curge and Sackerfice in the War on Turr”
Published on 5 May 2007 at 11:13 am.
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Our fearless chickenhawk leader, Chimpy McHitlerburton, invokes God in support of rightwing nutjob Milblog conference! Let us follow him blindly!
Milblog conf site here.
Gateway liveblogging.
Mudville’s livefeed
Sorry I couldn’t make it, would have enjoyed meeting you all.
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Sandmonkey Speaks Again
Published on 2 May 2007 at 10:37 am.
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Briefly, to clarify. The Egyptian Sandmonkey, who knows better than most of us the difference between a river back home and that other thing, is not running from those who would intimidate him. He wants to do something bigger: “Let’s light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.” Read the whole thing.
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Scanning the Sphere
Published on 2 May 2007 at 12:18 am.
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The Anchoress was under the weather, but she’s back up and looking around.
Seeing John Malkovich
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 10:38 pm.
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Not a lot of money, fame or honor in this blogging business, but every now and then John Malkovich shows up at your house.
Sandmonkey Speaks
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 8:37 am.
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The Egyptian Sandmonkey, who signed off the other day, describes what happens when you speak out for freedom in Egypt, one of our allies of convenience.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 11:09 am.
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It’s crazy enough as it is out there, folks. Let’s try to keep it sane.
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“This All for Masters in Tel Aviv”
Published on 24 Apr 2007 at 8:50 am.
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Thunder Run posted this, Soldiers Attacked from Mosque, Two Insurgents Killed, and got the following delightful reply from some guy who’s apparently on board with this program:
mullah cimoc say ameriki dying the slow and cruel death. so many other soldier come home and take the rope of suicide for the ashamed.
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Stop Reporting News …
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 11:47 pm.
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… maybe it will go away. Andrew Sullivan (Megan) thinks if the media ignored the demand for massive coverage of a major news event that ordinary people were horrified and transfixed by, then other people might not be goaded into suicidal mass murder. According to this theory, the anti-war media needs to stop reporting on death and [...]
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 8:42 am.
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It’s a mad, mad world.
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Now Surrender
Published on 20 Apr 2007 at 10:08 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, blogs.
I believe Andrew Sullivan (Ross) has lost this paragraph:
Pulitzer
Published on 19 Apr 2007 at 9:19 am.
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for vile, childish diatribes, Sherwood Ross at Counterpunch:
… Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech?
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 12:02 pm.
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Straightjackets all around.
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BOTW is Dead, Long Live BOTW
Published on 12 Apr 2007 at 11:42 am.
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Our three-month reign as Blog of the Week at Powerline sadly comes to an end. Discover the new Blog of the ??? here.
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Fatwas All Around!
Published on 10 Apr 2007 at 10:56 am.
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Filed under Islam, blogs.
Rusty gets a fatwa!
Hey, I got one of those. Me and Tim. We got ours with a hot Aussie.
So, what you gotta ask yourself is … are you Fatwa-worthy?
You know you wanna be.
Carnival of the Insanities
Published on 8 Apr 2007 at 11:29 am.
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In the land of the crazy, you’ve gotta be nuts to be sane.
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Battle Cry of Freedom (from Pols)!
Published on 6 Apr 2007 at 4:23 pm.
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The Anchoress has had it with pols. Her Protest Manifesto here. Her credo:
“Your Endless Campaign Stops Here!”
