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Why, in God's name, do people waste their time with this?

Bushisms of the Day

The Volokh Conspiracy's critique of the latest entry.

When we get to an equivalent of "Your mom dresses you funny!" "Nuh uh!" in politics... my brain threatens to asplode.

Honestly, I'm tempted to vote for a Democrat for Preisdent in '08--no matter who it is--just to see what happens in the blogosphere* when the tables get turned. The whole blog phenomenon has sort of grown up in the Bush presidency, and I'm really terribly curious what will happen when things turn around.

Other than my brain continuing to threaten to asplode, of course.

*And when, in God's name, will we lose this meaningless and infantile term? For crying out loud, when did simple discourse require a cutesy and, I might say, dismissive name?

Oops... been reading too many political blogs today.
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So it must be time to update.

Let me get the perpetual promise out of the way now: Kid pics coming soon. Honest.

Speaking of the kid, he's been walking now for a little over a week, seriously walking. He still finds it more convenient/faster to get where he needs to go by crawling, but he's much readier to let go and take a couple steps if it'll get him what he wants. It's pretty cool. Since he's started, I've actually been advised to trip him, so he doesn't get all confident.

I think I'll skip on that advice.

In work news, I'm going to become our company's web guy, for a whopping zero extra dollars. Where the dollars, or "dollerz," might come in is writing copy. I've let my bosses know that I can do it (at least, in theory), and hopefully they'll see fit to actually commission me and pay me for it. We'll see. They hired the woman in the office manager position in part because she had a journalism background, and thus could utilizing her writing skills on the clock, as it were, but I'm sensing an opportunity there.

And since I know you're all-fired curious:

My Other Blog has a Technorati ranking of 855,552.

This place, by comparison, weighs in at 610,331. I coulda swore it was over 1 million the other day. But oh well.

New News

Apr. 25th, 2006 11:35 pm
davidklecha: Listening to someone else read the worst of my teenage writing. (Default)
Mostly of the boring variety.

I've started a "blog," as the kids these days call them, on my website, which as you may notice has been changed around a bit. Just a bit. (I remember the days when I strove for CONTENT, and put in a truly horrifying number of pages and subpages and whatnot... then realized keeping that shit updated would have been a full-time hobby in and of itself.) It's a little slimmer now.

The blog itself is here, and will probably undergo some mutations in the next couple of weeks as I play around with the look of it. As it stands, though, I'm going to try to keep the content there flowing, something close to daily.

[livejournal.com profile] daveklecha is a syndicated LJ feed of the same thing.

(I also syndicated my friend Dan Trudeau's MySpace blog at [livejournal.com profile] dantrudeau. I hope he doesn't mind. I also hope it works. And I hope he updates soon, so there's some actual content to it.)

The blog, titled Midnight Highways for esoteric reasons (and that might change too, who knows), may also end up a repository for unpublished or unpublishable writings by yours truly. I do have a couple things that could go up in the next couple of weeks, plus a web-specific project that I'm still kicking around.

And that's about it for tonight.
davidklecha: Listening to someone else read the worst of my teenage writing. (Default)
I was going to post something about the blog link becoming the new footnote and how, like footnotes, those that go unexamined can help prop up faulty assumptions. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost track of one of my examples. My other is a post by James D. MacDonald over at [livejournal.com profile] makinglight. In it, MacDonald asserts that 8000 servicepeoples from the Army, AF, and Navy have gone walkies in the three years since the start of the war. He didn't link this statistic in the original text of the post, but put it in the comments after someone asked for it. And, well, after examining it I saw why: the article does make that claim, but also points out that this number is way down from Fiscal Year 2001 (ending Sept. 30, 2001), in which a comparable number deserted. 8000 in a year vs. 8000 in three years doesn't really bolster his argument much. Neither does the next article he links, which has something to say about low morale... in December of 2004. The blog I can't find suggested that infrastructure in Iraq continued to be a huge problem, and backed up that statement with an article from October of 2004. I could swear, but I'm not exactly certain, that in this same blog the author compared Bush's urging the Iraqi parliament to form a government with demanding that sea monkeys build a castle, a rather ugly comparison that seems to have made it to the front page of Fark.com.

If you're going to disagree with the war, that's fine. Go to town. Put together your rationale and defend the crap out of it. Just... try to be a little more rigorous in your use of evidence, okay? Make sure it supports your point and all that.

But, and this is crucial, in part because I can't find that other blog, and more because these are the only two examples I've seen recently, I'm not going to make some sort of comment about some kind of disingenuous trend. Just going to try to leave it at the friendly advice stage.

And now, for the last ten songs my iPod played on Sooper-Shuffle (all 4300 songs played at random):

Slowburn - Peter Gabriel
Down the Dolce Vita - Peter Gabriel
Going Home - Sara Groves
The Battle of Endor II - London Symphony Orchestra
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car - U2
A Girl In Trouble - Romeo Void
Eldorado - The Tragically Hip
In My Ear - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Better - hHead
Against the Wind - Bob Seger

How Pete ends up back-to-back, from the same album, I'll never know.

Blog Rec

Feb. 22nd, 2006 08:03 pm
davidklecha: Listening to someone else read the worst of my teenage writing. (Default)
[livejournal.com profile] slacktivist has a pretty awesome blog that I've been caught up in lately. Awesome, anyway, if you want to see things from the perspective of an evangelical Christian who is pretty disgusted with the Right Wing and the public face of American Christianity.

His page-by-page dismantling of the Left Behind series is pretty entertaining. At this rate, he'll be at it for the next twenty years or so, but it's very interesting, especially for one who could only make it through about eight of those books before giving up.

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