Left Blogosphere Leaders: Show Us the Money!
Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher and the Kos himself fired (in private) the first shots in a struggle over advertising dollars and other forms of support between the left-side of the blogosphere and the...
View ArticleWhy Froomkin Got the Axe
When the Washington Post announced it was terminating the blog written by Dan Froomkin, howls of outrage arose from the left blogosphere, along with paranoid accusations of WaPo free speech being...
View ArticleHR 1966: Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act
Pam Geller points out rightly that if this feel-good piece of House legislation introduced by Linda Sanchez back in April passes, all you have to do is offend someone and you can go to prison. This law...
View ArticleEeeww, Those Awful Republicans!
America’s Conscience: John Aravosis John Aravosis, of leftwing AMERICAblog, scored a real journalistic coup, catching the RNC mocking Barack Obama with an imaginary Obama card, which Aravosis...
View ArticleSPCA Outrage in Philadelphia 10: Answering Pat Burns
Burns is the dumb-looking one in the middle When NYM published the first blog coverage last week on the Murder Hollow Basset raid by the PSPCA, fellow field sports blogger Pat Burns of Terrierman’s...
View ArticleFTC Ruling on Bloggers
Walter Olson, at Overlawyered, responds to the new FTC guidelines on disclosure affecting bloggers. Come to think of it, I usually link books mentioned using Amazon’s Associates program, but Amazon has...
View ArticleCharles Johnson Explains Why He Left Us
This is the explanation? According to Charles Johnson, the author of Little Green Footballs, he has abandoned his formerly brilliant attacks on liberal lies, stupidity, and hypocrisy and has instead...
View ArticleGhost Blogging
Blogging 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...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Beholder
Glenn 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...
View ArticleSaturday, January 9, 2010
Your 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...
View ArticleDC Launches Today
Roger 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...
View ArticleCharles Johnson Makes the News
Charles Johnson 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...
View ArticleUnhappy Hipsters
Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome. (Dwell magazine, November 2009) The blog Unhappy Hipsters exists to...
View ArticleBlogging No Longer Cool
Nicholas Carr has the bad news. I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You’d walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it’s just humiliating. Blogging has become...
View ArticlePalin Turns Palm Notes into a Joke
Palin mocks hand notes story The 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...
View ArticleThursday, February 18, 2010
That 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...
View ArticleMickey Kaus To Run For Senate Seat From California
Mickey Kaus 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...
View ArticleSunday, June 20, 2010
Ouch! 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...
View ArticleBest Headlines of the Day
Glenn Reynolds: John Galt was unavailable for comment. ——————————— Ed Driscoll: The Road to Perdition is Becoming Increasingly Rather Bumpy.
View ArticleConservative Bloggers Are More Critical And Fair-Minded
When a tasty news item confirming one’s own prejudices and assumptions and wreaking injury upon one’s political adversaries comes along, it is only natural that the partisan blogger will seize upon it...
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