Funniest story of the day, right here.
Actually, I think he has a point. I looked through Scoop’s bug tracking site; dozens of issues opened by Redstate admins are closed with a status of “Won’t fix – Conservative.”
It’s Thanksgiving time, so I’ll be gone through this weekend. That is, assuming I don’t slide down Teton pass and into a tree. If that happens, I won’t be back at all. Because I’ll be dead. Which would be annoying.
Happy Thanksgiving.
(note: I won’t, however, forget to remove the eyesore gracing the top of this page on Saturday.)
I’ve upgraded and now everything is broken. All will be fixed soon. Hopefully.
UPDATE: If you have any idea why my sidebar is now below the post when you view a single post, let me know. I don’t really see how upgrading WP causes that to happen.
Occasional commenter Bob now has his own blog, Waves and Particles. Go check it out.
Over in the sidebar you’ll notice a new section, Top Commenters. I noticed that plugin on Colby’s blog after his overhaul and thought it was pretty nifty.
Looking at it makes me realize how long I’ve been doing this. Several people on there no longer read this blog or comment on here. They had a spurt of reading and commenting and moved on. A few names I’d never have guessed commented here that many times.
Did you know?
Yes, this post was completely pointless.
When I was a freshman in college (Fall 2002), I took the required public communication class. In it, I had to do a persuasive presentation about a subject of my choosing. I chose the Iraq war. I had a few modest, not particularly fleshed out arguments: WMDs (if they were even in Iraq) weren’t particularly dangerous to us in Saddam’s hands, links to al Qaeda were spurious and contrary to what bin Laden had said, and something about the no-fly zones in Iraq. It wasn’t an impressive presentation and I was out-argued by other members of the class after the presentation was over. It was an embarrassing experience for a long time. Later, I learned more, thought out those arguments and was able to answer the objections raised in that class (in my own head, anyway).
That experience has, as far as I can tell, made me somewhat neurotic in (online) political debates. Rarely do I let anyone else have the last word and I tend to chop up comments and respond to individual points fairly thoroughly (some of this has been tempered in discussions on blogs). Sometimes it’s a good thing, other times it’s overkill.
I only say this because I think it’s sort of interesting and to point out that if some upcoming posts strike you as oddly timed, something akin to that reaction is probably the cause. So in the following week or two you’ll likely see a more thorough description of why I think we went to war with Iraq and a discussion of the Democratic candidates, starting with Dennis Kucinich and continuing until I get bored.
Colby’s moved to his own domain and host, so go pay him a visit at his new place.
So you might have noticed other people mentioning the Association of Montana Bloggers group that is starting up. It’s part of Colby’s grand vision of world domina…I mean, it’s a good idea that I think has a lot of promise.
There’s not much of a defined mission yet, but the general idea is to promote Montana blogs and help readers find their way into the Montana blogosphere. I think we’ve all noticed that there are now a ton of Montana blogs out there and it can be daunting if you don’t know where to start. That’s assuming there’s a good starting point, though there are actually many, depending on your interests.
That’s my short pitch. I think we could really do some cool things with this and everyone is invited to share their ideas and get involved. Check it out.
It’s another May, and I’ve now had this blog for four years. That’s a long time.
UPDATE: Thanks everyone.
