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Ed Driscoll, Glenn Reynolds, Headlines, Journalism, The Blogosphere, Wit
Glenn Reynolds: John Galt was unavailable for comment.
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Ed Driscoll: The Road to Perdition is Becoming Increasingly Rather Bumpy.
Category Archive 'The Blogosphere'
19 Jul 2010
Best Headlines of the DayEd Driscoll, Glenn Reynolds, Headlines, Journalism, The Blogosphere, WitGlenn Reynolds: John Galt was unavailable for comment. ——————————— 20 Jun 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010$10 a pack, Barack Obama, Baseball, Bizarre, Books, Chicago, Cigarettes, Conservative Talk Radio, Culture11, Darwin Awards, Law Suits, Life Experience, Litigation, New York, Taxes, The Blogosphere, The Law, The Notes, TobaccoOuch! I don’t get to type this often…: “He had acetylene torch injury to the penis.” ——————————————— John Hinderaker from Power-Line, respects Obama’s behavior. ——————————————— Conservative cultural commentary venues The Notes and Culture11 went under. (link 1 & link 2). Some people think they were not populist enough, but I am inclined to believe that the fact I never previously heard of either one of them could be part of the problem. ——————————————— Cigarettes $10 a pack in NYC. New Yorkers ought to take up chewing tobacco. ——————————————— Write fiction based on your own life experience and they’ll sue you. Hat tip to Walter Olson. 02 Mar 2010
Mickey Kaus To Run For Senate Seat From California2010 Election, Barbara Boxer, California, Democrats, Mickey Kaus, Senate, The Blogosphere
Relatively rational liberal commentator Robert Michael “Mickey” Kaus has filed his nomination papers to run against Barbara Boxer in the democrat primary in California for that party’s nomination to the US Senate. Kaus went to Harvard and has been a prominent blogger since 1999. Although he’s a liberal, he fairly frequently posts well-reasoned analyses I agree with and link. Investor’s Business Daily describes his politics as follows:
I’m not sure that Mickey Kaus is any worse than Carly Fiorina overall, and either of the two would be a definite improvement over Barbara Boxer. I think Kaus has a chance of winning the primary, and is bound to make it an interesting race. 18 Feb 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010Auction Sales, Blogosphere, Carnival, Christie's, Covert Actions, Dubai, Hot Air, Israel, Mahmoud-al-Mabhouh, Mossad, Photography, Skull and Bones, Stratfor, The Blogosphere, YaleThat Skull and Bones balloting box was not actually sold. Apparently, Christie’s withdrew it from the sale late last month, IvyGate reports, after receiving a mysterious “title claim.†The Russell Trust has plenty of lawyers. —————————————— Hot Air (one of the most important conservative blogs) has been sold to Salem Communications. Congratulations and good luck. ——————————————
—————————————— Stratfor: Tradecraft in Dubai Assassination 08 Feb 2010
Palin Turns Palm Notes into a JokeHuffington Post, Humor, Sarah Palin, Satire, The Blogosphere, The Huffington PostThe big news of the day (from the perspective of the left blogosphere) was the HuffPo photo taken during her speech at the Tea Party Convention revealing some talking points jotted on the palm of Sarah Palin’s left hand. This one did not impress many people outside the left, but it did provoke derision from Ann Althouse and a humorous response (see photo above) from Sarah Palin herself. 06 Feb 2010
Blogging No Longer CoolBlogging, Fashion, Modern Living, The BlogosphereNicholas Carr has the bad news.
30 Jan 2010
Unhappy HipstersAmusement, Architecture, Design, Dwell, Humor, Minimalism, Modern Living, Satire, The Blogosphere, Unhappy Hipsters
The blog Unhappy Hipsters exists to mock the spare and alienated modern architectural and interior design aesthetic celebrated by très, très chic Dwell Magazine simply by captioning some of its photos of the sophisticated “at home in the modern world.” My wife, who brought this one to my attention, is naturally sympathetic to Unhappy Hipsters’ jaundiced viewpoint on expensive moderne minimalism. Our preferred houses tend to be old, and thoroughly cluttered with books, weapons, natural history specimens, Orientalia, and sporting prints. A friend from Yale once described our native habitat as “decorated by Stalky & Co.” Our design aesthetic might be described as Addams Family Excess. Where do those hipsters keep their books? one always wonders. Hat tip to Karen L. Myers. 23 Jan 2010
Charles Johnson Makes the NewsCharles Johnson, Little Green Footballs, Pajamas Media, Pam Geller, The Blogosphere
Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson sold his share of Pajamas Media in 2007. (I didn’t know that! How come PJM, Glenn Reynolds, and Roger Simon never reported it? Could I possibly have somehow missed reading about it?) Johnson is teaming up with Barrett Brown at Vanity Fair to start a new blogging consortium described as intended to expose the failures of establishment news outlets. Charles Johnson seems to me to have gone off the deep end recently, devoting his blogging activities principally toward a crusade to enforce some particular notions of political correctness of his own, and a return to criticizing targets of wider interest strikes me as potentially a positive development, but Vanity Fair, home of the self-important windbag James Wolcott, is an unlikely venue for objective and intelligent news correction in the old LGF manner. Still, let’s hope for the best. ———————————- This New York Times magazine article describes Johnson’s rupture with the Right Blogosphere supplying some details that even those of us who followed all this had missed. It notes that Johnson changed sides on Global Warming just in time to get blindsided by the Climategate scandal, which seems to have permanently tarnished the appeal of that particular delusion, and it even reveals the disturbing behavior pattern that puzzled and depressed those of us who had long admired Charles Johnson.
11 Jan 2010
DC Launches TodayCharles Johnson, Daily Caller, Huffington Post, Pajamas Media, Roger L. Simon, The Blogosphere, The Huffington Post, Tucker CarlsonRoger Simon and Charles Johnson never got those Ferraris everyone thought they’d soon be driving back when Pajamas Media launched. PJM, at least, survived, but nobody got rich. Heck, Charles Johnson even lost his good sense, changed sides, and now devotes his blogging activity to defending Warmism, enforcing political correctness, and bashing conservatives. Sad, very sad. Let’s hope Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, launching today, proves more fortunate. DC has been described as intended to represent “a conservative answer to Huffington Post.” Arianna Huffington responded to the launch with a gracious post, observing amusingly that her own Huffpo was founded as “the progressive answer to Drudge.” 09 Jan 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010Blog Administration, CIA, Democrats, Global Warming, Health Care Reform, John O. Brennan, Kubrick, Media Bias, Michael Scheuer, NPR, Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Ladin, Republicans, The Blogosphere, WordPressYour tax dollars at work. NPR uploaded a 1:24 propaganda cartoon last November which has recently been noticed and is attracting criticism. ————————————- Peggy Noonan says passage of the Health Care Bill is going to be a catastrophic victory for democrats. Republicans are currently simply waiting for democrats to finish destroying themselves, and she warns them that, with respect to their own coming political accendancy, they should take a cue from the film Saving Private Ryan (1998) and: “Earn this” ————————————-
————————————- WordPress is retiring the much-admired Kubrick as its default format theme. Never Yet Melted started out briefly using Kubrick, like just about everybody else. ————————————- Michael Scheuer says Obama Counter Terrorism Czar John O. Brennan in 1998 blocked a CIA operation that could have klilled or captured Bin Ladin. 04 Jan 2010
In the Eye of the BeholderAmusement, Andrew Sullivan, Ann Althouse, Barack Obama, Glenn Reynolds, Joe Biden, Joseph Biden, Photography, The BlogosphereGlenn Reynolds yesterday found the above photo on the White Houses’s Flicker page and posted it (along with the enlarged detail below) inviting readers to “interpret the body language.” Barack Obama has always been a mirror, reflecting back to individual members of the American public their own preconceptions, and the Instapundit selection provides a perfect opportunity for a wide range of interpretation. I, for instance, thought Obama looked like the Godfather contemptuously rebuking an incompetent consigliere. Over on Flicker, MCarrier1 thought Obama looked like James Bond. Hot Air immediately launched a caption contest, where FishGov offered:
Ann Althouse, on the other hand, just thought The man is tired and it’s a way to get above it all. And that’s the other thing I see in that face: He’s tired and he’s floating above it all. Andrew Sullivan had to puzzle for a while over what exactly Glenn Reynolds was trying to pull posting this cryptic photo, (a)nd then I realized why this photo immediately strikes some people are damning. Obama is a black man who looks as if he is condescending to a white man. That’s political gold. 18 Dec 2009
Ghost BloggingAndrew Sullivan, Blogosphere, Ghost Blogging, Hypocrisy, The BlogosphereBlogging is surprisingly time consuming. It really does take a few hours to put out a respectable day’s worth of postings, and it has long been obvious to me that super-bloggers who deliver truckloads of articles daily without fail have to be relying on assistance. There’s nothing wrong with having a support staff (if one’s blog’s revenues support that kind of thing), but in Andrew Sullivan’s case, there seems to be a certain inconsistency, even hypocrisy. Lachlan Markay blows the whistle on Sullivan.
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