All That Is Necessary…
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15 Minutes of Google Fame
It turns out that if you Google “lopez kathleen parker” (as someone from Houston did earlier this afternoon), my humble blog shows up as the fifth result.
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Facebook Bleg
I wish I’d thought of this before my BFF Andrew Sullivan sent more than 5,000 of his readers to my “Catfight” post, but here we are. For those of you who have found your way back here, I have a “bleg” (as in “blog beg,” a parallel coinage with “blog” from “web log.” Forgive me […]
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“Catfight” Post Sparks a Sullivalanche
Further info about traffic on the Catfight post that sparked today’s Sullivalanche… The full daily stats have not been posted to my Google Analytics “dashboard” yet, but it turns out that doing a customized search for a time period pulls out data that is more current than the dashboard. The graphic above shows my total […]
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Catfight in The Corner! Lopez vs. Parker
Welcome, Andrew Sullivan and 3QuarksDaily readers. While you’re here, I hope you’ll take a look around and leave a comment! The “Labels” section in the right column can be used as a menu. I’m a big fan of National Review Online’s group blog, called The Corner. It has been described as “the Id of Conservatism,” […]
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McCain Swings for the Fences with October Surprise
The five-run homer gambit (the Palin selection) didn’t work. But now McCain may have hit on a winning strategy: exposing how Barack “Lefty” Obama’s rank hypocrisy may endanger the integrity of our National Pastime: Standing just miles north of Philadelphia, whose Phillies will represent the National League starting Wednesday against the American League champion Tampa […]
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Postscript
I finally read the WSJ “Liberal Supermajority” editorial that Pete told me about. It was OK. Because it covered so many issues, it couldn’t really do much in the way of persuasion on any given issue — each section seems to start out assuming that the reader already understands and agrees with the editorial board’s […]
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My BFF "Pete Robinson" (Unwittingly) Helps Me Shill For My Consulting Business
As I write these opening words, it’s a little after 2 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, October 17. I mention this by way of setting up a whiny rant about how hard it is for a new blogger to get noticed. There’s an editorial [free link] titled “A Liberal Supermajority” in today’s WSJ [today’s!! I’m […]
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Joe the Plumber Becomes Collateral Damage
Obama talks with Joe Wurzelbacher, who should not have had any reason to fear that his life was about to change.(Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP) The snap judgment about Wednesday night’s Presidential debate, according to headlines all over the Internets, was that “the big winner of the debate was Joe the Plumber.” The line […]
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Stick a Fork in Mac, He’s Toast
Something not quite right metaphorically in that headline, but I’m too tired to figure it out. To win, Obama needed to refrain from burning an American flag onstage, and he more than met that challenge. He looked more Presidential than McCain. I’m trying as hard as I can to find reasons to stay on the […]
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In Praise of Milbloggers, and of the Iraqi Air Force
“Ask any of these three brand-new pilots if the Surge worked.” (Photo Credit: TheDonovan.com) The financial crisis has sucked all of the oxygen out of the news media, but it’s good to remember that there’s a war going on — and going well. From a “DV” (distinguished visitor, not otherwise identified) at the first graduation […]
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