We Got a Lot of Nice Links-ah!

Sat   4 Oct 10:38 am EST © 2003 McGehee [blogoSFERICS 2.0]   in Coweta County, GA

A-haw haw haw haw! Let me say up front that you should browse around on any of these blogs if you don’t read them regularly. To start off our linksluttin’ with a smile, a quick tiptoe through the funny papers, starting with Day By Day. I can’t say this would surprise me, though sometimes I think more than one of those guys must be getting the same kind of “help.” Ah, friendship. Considering all the publicity about Arnold’s groping habit, you’d think there’d be more interest in something like what the PrestoPundit has linked here. Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Turn that car around! Marty is praising an Ann Coulter piece! Though he’s right, it is funny stuff. There’s a reason he’s the first self-described lefty I ever added to my blogroll. Stevie is a Nathan Lane fan. <insert goodnatured ribbing comment here> Indigo has been getting a lot of interesting e-mail. Affirmative action—it’s not just for Americans anymore, the Poor Schmuck discovers. The Smallest Minority (a member of the Kevin Collective) is a dedicated RKBA blogger. For example, there’s this. (If permalinks aren’t working, use the main link and just browse—it’s all good.) Andrea links to an essay arguing that, since 9/11, the “neo-conservative cabal” has included an overwhelming majority of the American people. Yep. The Unixdude links to a piece in which President Bush leaves a roomful of reporters speechless. (By leaving it at that, I know some people will click through expecting an account of Dubya saying something stupid or inarticulate. I am so evil.) ZogbyBlogger “AGB” posts excerpts of the Kay Report on WMDs in Iraq. Things don’t look good for GOP reconciliation in California, if this post at Lex Communis is any indication. Recriminations between the camps of the two Republicans seeking the governorship in this Tuesday’s election seem to be continuing unabated. Maybe after the election it’ll die down and there’ll be an exchange of olive branches. There’s a first time for everything. The Pathetic Earthling finds vindication for a proposed law-review comment that was rejected as “too speculative” back in 1995. Turns out he was just ahead of his time. Your Link Daddy can relate. Patterico pontificates on the malodorous timing of that “Arnold’s a groper” story now lining birdcages across Southern California. The Angry Clam brings us a crowning example of stupidity from the California NAA(L)CP. Apparently Arnold’s a racist because his last name incorporates a misspelled version of the “N” word. Read the comments, too. Gennie needs to just come right out and tell us what she thinks. TechLawAdvisor is hot on the story of the RIAA’s efforts to control the distribution of music. Example. Rand Simberg is on a brief vacation, but before he left he posted a critique of NASA at age 45. I sure hope I’m in better shape at that age, but it doesn’t look good… Craig offers a contrarian perspective on a series of those annoying special-interest “report cards” that get issued from time to time. I get the feeling Montana isn’t terribly interested in being teacher’s pet. Another Kevin Collective member offers a nickel’s worth of free advice to the blogosphere’s hyperpartisans. No, I’m not taking bets on whether they’ll actually heed it. Brent links to an article about a first day at UCLA. You may want to have your stomach pumped before you read the piece—the dry heaves are better than cleaning breakfast off your monitor. In case anyone missed it (and I’m betting it’s not getting anywhere near the play the original, inaccurate story got), Spooky of fresh potatoes links a correction of the Arnold admires Hitler story. Cox & Forkum have a lot of great cartoons every week, but I want to feature this one. You know there’s something wrong with the Limbaugh-bashing when Vicky starts to defend him. Tony speaks not-so-technically about silly research. I guess that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Backcountry conservative Jeff Quinton—he of the Perfumed Prince Report and Wictory Wednesday and Friday Letters for Bush and a whole lot of football-related blogging—may be the blogosphere’s winner in the category of Most Feature-Rich Blog by a Single Person. Xrlq (pronounced “Jeff”) declares jihad on “puke politics” and offers a battle plan for anyone willing to join up with him. For once I almost wish I were still in California. Almost. Yet another opinion on the Limbaugh football flap, this time from the CalBlog Husband. File-sharing at the University of Florida has been addressed by the University in its computer network, Zombyboy notes. There’s a comment raising a question about other consequences but I would think Holy Ned would have been raised if that were the case. We’ll see. If it really is an effective solution, expect to see it implemented much more widely. FREE CAM! Oh—they have. Cool. Response to consumer demand—what a concept. Eddie Thomas asks a very good question about Limbaugh’s McNabb comments. Personally, I don’t see a lot of evidence that African-Americans are anywhere near as offended by what Rush said as the sports press is. We in America have tended, erroneously, to accept as gospel whatever the self-anointed spokesmen for this or that identity group say about how members of that group feel. We could do a lot better by ignoring the “spokesmen” completely. Especially when they don’t even belong to the group. Personally, I liked “Dude, You’re Getting a Dell”—I know, “Stephen” was a goofball and got really annoying there toward the end, but he was kinda likable at first. But after that runs its course, in the goofball’s place they give us three goofball Dell interns? Anyway, Susanna comments on the latest evolution of the Dell ad campaign. If they’re considering alternatives, here’s one for their tech support: “Dell if I Know!” New Europe turns up evidence incriminating Old Europe, and all Old Europe can do is imitate Claude Raines in Casablanca (credit where it’s due: see Bigfire in comments). Scott “LT Smash” Koenig has the link. Michael “Master of None” Williams takes a crack at explaining why American ascendancy is in pretty much everyone’s best interest. Of course, the very act of thinking so will be attacked as a jingoistic example of “American exceptionalism.” Well, y’know, a lot of things that have befallen Great Powers of the past just hasn’t happened here, and maybe—just maybe—it’s because we are exceptional. Just a thought. Mister Charles, posting as always from where the dust never settles, points to another example of people looking for an excuse to claim they’re speaking for other people whose knickers may or may not be in a knot, but we’d better believe they really are in a knot, and if we don’t we’re going to be in big trouble. There’s all kinds of good stuff in the JunkYard, but I find myself chortling over this post, in which Maureen Dowd is caught letting slip evidence that maybe Valerie Plame wasn’t all that great a security risk. Nathan has serious posts about the Limbaugh-McNabb kerfuffle, but for those whose limit has been reached, here’s a less offensive line on it all. I was cranky the other day as a result of an avalanche of disgusting “news.” Apparently I wasn’t the only one to be disgusted. When Ricky West vents, people should listen. Deb the Accidental Jedi links to an effort to counter the media spin on Iraq with input from people who are there. Hey, here’s something that’s not about Arnold or Rush—the SoCalLawyer posts an excerpt from Wolf Blitzer’s CNN interview of Robert Novak. First they didn’t like punch card ballots, and now they’re complaining about touchscreen voting. Tony Rosen has a pretty fair idea what would satisfy them. BTW, in his official capacity as World Despot™, Tony has appointed yours truly as imperial Idiot Detector. [Well, of course. It takes one to know one.—ed HEY!] Nepotism? Who, me? Fellow Kevin Collective member the Interocitor gets this week’s coveted Two-Fer with this post exposing some other questionable admirations by His Arnoldness, and this history lesson on the Los Angeles Times‘s stance on the recall. Congrats. Dean Esmay helps illustrate the human side of what we’re doing in Iraq. Yea, U.S. Tiger has good taste in dream vehicles. But it might be a little tough to parallel-park. I’ve had other drivers do this at me, and although it has, once or twice, been to warn of a speedtrap, it has most often been to warn about a traffic obstruction ahead, such as a recent accident or an insufficiently signed construction zone—on winding, two-lane country roads this can be a problem. Anyway, in the instance discussed by Dodd, I’ll bet the fine didn’t come anywhere near covering the time and resources required to process the ticket. Speaking of Dodd, he and the Wizbanger are both using the same photo for their caption contests. But since I linked to Mr. Aylward’s contest photo last week, check out this instead. There is a God, and His sense of humor only goes so far. I first added Michele to my blogroll because she gave me cake. Now she’s handing out donuts. Mmmmmmmmmmm. Donuts. I have to agree with the Volokh Co-conspirator who posted this. There are not enough bad words in my vast vocabulary to describe people who would do business at that deli. Oh, my aching—never mind. Comments: Wow, thanks for the link, Kevin! My, you seem to have had a busy morning ... Vicky • Oct 4, 2003 1:59 PM Vicky, He wasn’t busy. It’s his way of making up for the lack of and slow posting on Fridays ... he CLAIMS he has a job, but we know better. Tony Rosen • Oct 4, 2003 2:19 PM Detecting idiots is a full-time job. And they never seem to be false alarms. McGehee • Oct 4, 2003 2:23 PM What, parallel parking is a problem? I could ease that baby between two moons orbiting Jupiter easier than pulling my Lincoln into a space between a Explorer and a Focus in front of the Courthouse. So, any signs of carpal tunnel syndrome after that link fest? I do want to thank ya for that bit of linky love, though. Kudos for a fine job. Tiger • Oct 4, 2003 3:17 PM Yep, thanks for the link! Michael Williams • Oct 4, 2003 3:27 PM   Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.