Month: June 2003

Hanging by nails? Howard Owens (found through Instapundit) is cool! First of all (and on the serious side) his statements about blogging are as optimistic as I hope they are correct. These are real gems of wisdom: ….if newspapers don’t develop effective blog-related strategies, they’ll lose credibility and market share.?.. ?.What excites me most about…

Forewarned is Forearmed Arma virumque cano? Matt Welch led me to this (not a linkable blog, so you have to scroll down to the headline “Scheer Wins Writers Guild Debate On Style, Wit.”) The real story was not about Scheer, who obviously knows how to please a crowd described as “90%” left. As author Luke…

Give us this day our daily blog. And lead us NOT! Perry de Havilland at Samizdata linked to this story about blogging, something “professional” journalists consider “an epidemic of vanity publishing rather than the glorious outbreak of free expression it actually represents.” No doubt the writings of Tom Paine, John “the Devil” Wilkes, and even…

Boredom Rules! Looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t wanna run for office, reportedly because among other things, he hates committee meetings and all that boring, put-me-to-sleep stuff — the nuts and bolts of politics. Arnie is right! I did that (attended committee meetings) and instead of making a political junkie out of me, it damned near…

Rome Yes; Roehm, No! As a longtime advocate of allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, I am worried about this story, because of the allegation that the soldiers engaged in sexual acts. I sure as hell hope that the sex acts were heterosexual acts — because otherwise we’ll all never hear the end of…