tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63323452011-04-21T17:34:35.109-07:00'The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret!'Agrajaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945198635752337531noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332345.post-1076993746379965492004-02-16T20:47:00.000-08:002004-02-16T20:58:23.466-08:00

In Arrogance of the Uninformed, Dave Johnson lays out the problem with blogging, which more or less boils down to that it's a gigantic self-referential circle-jerk and none of us makes any effort to write to the people who don't have the time to sit in front of the computer all day getting 'informed', on account of having actual real lives. Meanwhile, the Republican machine churns out quick,

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Vigilantes targeting Mexican military Troops help drug, people smugglers and will be shot, says leader of armed patrol in Douglas Why do I get the feeling the 'terror' alert will be staying right the fuck where it is?

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This story about Dick Cheney -- who apparently overruled the objections of both Blair and Bush (!) to a wholly unilateral war -- reminds me of my reaction to the Time article 'Cheney's War' that ran not too long ago. " I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along. "

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More and more voices seem to be trying to figure out what will happen as blogging becomes more of an actual threat to the media establishment - on both sides of the aisle. Billmon's Whiskey Bar has a long post titled Davos Discovers the Blogs, in which among many things he wonders whether corporations will try to co-opt the blogosphere, buying up the best blogs. He seems hopeful that blogging

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Just something that occurred to me while going through the debate, and after seeing this article by Broder -- In any situation where someone says "unelectable", would it make any difference whatsoever if they said "bad"? I mean, doesn't it just basically mean "other people think this is bad"? And really, doesn't that just boil down to trying to avoid explaining, exactly, WHY it's bad? In 10th

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Well, live in the sense that these are my thoughts as I'm reading the transcript. Not so much live as undead. And everybody loves zombies. Or rather, dedicatedly loathes them. For real live coverage, try pandagon or calpundit. Anyway... Dean: Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property tax gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education

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roger ailes - "to a grey-haired white man, they were all outraged, outraged at General Wesley Clark's purported refusal to repudiate the charge that Bush was a deserter." The more media attention the Bush awol story gets, the more likely it is that some network will run a serious story on the subject. ... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHA!!! ... You mean, like, Al Gore and

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Well, here's one idea I can use this site for. Working out boilerplate answers to the stupid GOP talking points I hear regurgitated by people almost daily. Make 'em quick, clever, and importantly, factually accurate, which is where Grover Norquist and I part ways. Well, that and all the shitloads of money he's ripped off of people. I don't want to just say, "Well, global warming is a fact." I

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"Although it is trendy among teens like myself to pursue the opposite opinion, I admire President Bush because of his abilities to lead, and to do the right thing. He repairs the economy not by introducing new regulations and increasing business costs, but instead uses fundamental economic principles and by reducing taxes. Furthermore, his unwavering stance on terror not only makes my fellow

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By way of Atrios, I found my way to Columbia Journalism Review's new blog, where I found a very... enlightening post on the nature of the press and it's relationship to the Bush White House. Well... enlightening's not exactly the right word... it tends to call to mind a candle, while I'm thinking more of a very nearby Sun. The post is more or less a summary of an article by Ken Auletta in the

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I was reading Year of the Fake in the Nation, and it occurred to me that something else i've read a lot of lately - that GW is "incurious" - is off base. Dubya isn't incurious, he's aggressively ignorant. He hates knowledge, and people who go around knowing things. He wants to make himself as stupid as possible, and he wants to force everyone in America to be just as empty-headed. Look at the

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It appears that the press is now trying out its latest spin - "We can't vote for the Democratic nominee because we don't know anything about them!" You know... Never mind that we would know about them if the press would do its fucking job, being, you know, telling us about them... It's just that, if they actually gave two shits, they'd have spent their time telling us about these guys for

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I want to make it clear for anybody visiting this site that I will never, under any circumstances, vote for Dick Gephardt. This is not based in any way on his policy positions or 'electability'. I understand that the man has a long and distinguished career in office, however, this cannot dissuade me. The simple fact is, he freak me out. I mean... yuerrrrgh, what is it with that guy, he's like

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One reason I decided to start this thing is to collect my various little Internet-doings into one place. I've started a bad habit of reading stuff on other blogs, intending to leave, oh, one or two sentences worth of comment, and ending up with an entire fucking essay. The latest instance occurring after I read this post on Eschaton about ethnic identity and 5th-generation Asians. My response -

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So I've joined this whole Blogging game... joining the race, as it were, after the man with the starter pistol has fired, watched the runners take off, driven home, and fallen asleep in front of the TV. Why start one of these barnacles on the hull of the Internet? Partly it's because I'm interested in things, including, but not limited to politics, media, entertainment, philosophy, society, and

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Do I count as one of those Dotcom tycoons now? When do I get to do the IPO? And is it painful? My Pulitzer is... what, in the mail, right?

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It seems I can add them now. Smart, is what I am.

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Now... how to begin.

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So... it seems I have a blog.

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