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2006-12
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Sample Of Virginia Blogosphere Activity.
2006-12-27.
The Virginia political blogosphere is (mostly) a cesspool of incestuous, self-indulgent children with dreams of working from home so they don’t have to get a real job. There, I said it. The secret’s out.
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Sun Tzu And The Art Of Blog Warfare.
2006-12-27.
I flippantly mentioned SWAC Girl in my last post, who is a relatively new fixture on the Virginia political scene. I’ve seen her special brand of conservative thought in the Virginia Political Blog aggregator from time to time, but I haven’t read her posts too extensively. (They generally got tiresome after the first sentence or two.) I just figured she was yet another rabid George Allen supporter with too much spare time on her hands, trying to turn to the new-fangled Internets blog medium to get her pre-Women’s Suffrage message out before the elections.
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Virginia Blogosphere Sample, Part Two: The Smackdown.
2006-12-27.
Update: Waldo has taken down the Virginia Political Blogs aggregator. Sort of. He just renamed it Waldo’s Virginia Political Blogroll: “A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.” He promises, “The number of blogs in my blogroll will drop substantially before too long.” Pretty hilarious.
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Scandal Body Count Rises.
2006-12-28.
I’m finding this “Waldo scandal” and its aftermath really entertaining. I must be incredibly bored this week. Anyway, I apologize for talking about this again, but it’s like watching a train wreck.
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To Ignore Or Not To Ignore.
2006-12-29.
Wow, this is fun. I haven’t written this much in a while.
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2007-01
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Silly Microsoft Clipart Doodle Comics!.
2007-01-01.
Ripped from the Virginia blogosphere headlines.
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When Bloggers Attack Keith Ellison.
2007-01-03.
From the SWAC Pack
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The SWAC Defenders Of Freedom And Goode.
2007-01-04.
I’m continuing to monitor communications from the SWAC bloggers, because it’s fun, and, you know, Waldo censored them, so there’s no possible way for you guys to see their blogs anymore. Anyway, it’s pretty informative stuff. Pat Robertson revealed that God will allow a major terrorist attack on a U.S. city later this year–what revelations will come from the SWAC Pack?
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A Post-Mortem On Discussion.
2007-01-10.
There comes a time when “discussion” is no longer fruitful. I tried to challenge some of the beliefs of the SWAC Bloggers on In-Politically Correct today, but I guess I’m wasting my time. I tried to be polite on their blog but I don’t need to do that so much here.
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On Indonesia And The 10% That Support Suicide Bombings.
2007-01-10.
I mentioned in my last post that I didn’t know much about the state of terrorism in Indonesia, so I did a little web research.
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Wherein I Shut Down The Debate Again.
2007-01-10.
It’s really tempting to make up a cute graphic and a cheesy slogan to put at the top of my posts regarding the SWAC Bloggers.
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Twelve A Day?.
2007-01-12.
Sheesh. I can’t hardly get through one misleading SWAC Blogger post before another misleading SWAC Blogger post shows up in my reader: Political Correctness Will Kill Us … Part 8. I can’t keep up!
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How To Cherry-Pick From A Reagan Speech.
2007-01-13.
“Tonight, I want to speak to the people of the Soviet Union, to tell them it’s true that our governments have had serious differences, but our sons and daughters have never fought each other in war. And if we Americans have our way, they never will.
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What’s In A Label?.
2007-01-16.
A SWAC Blogger implied in a comment on his blog that I was “throwing out” words like bigot, xenophobe, and Islamophobe, perhaps suggesting that I was “smearing” them or had no sense of what the words meant. Vince mentioned something similar in a comment here. So I want to go back to my earlier post for a minute, where I wrote, referring to the SWAC bloggers: ‘Just about every word out of their mouths offers further proof that they are quite deserving of the harsh labels “bigot,” “Islamophobic,” and/or “xenophobic.”’
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Semantics Over Candles And Signs.
2007-01-20.
I’ve criticized the CASTLE bloggers (aka. oasis + launchpad) a lot lately so I figure it’s only fair that I also say I approve of their campaign to use candles and signs to show support for the troops, as reported in the Staunton News Leader: Candles support troops; signs call for victory. There’s not a thing wrong with it, and I applaud their conviction.
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2007-02
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CASTLE Jumps The Shark (UPDATED).
2007-02-20.
Starting to get back to normal here at work, so I can actually keep up with my news reader again.
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2007-03
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Counter-Protesters Gone Wild.
2007-03-23.
I had set a personal goal not to dissect SWAC propaganda anymore, but I stumbled on this post while pruning down my news reader last night: Anti-war protester complains about D.C. march. I can understand the desire to counter-protest and show support for troops, and I can even understand distaste for the more violent, corporate pacifists out there.
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2007-06
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There Was Sarcasm? Really?.
2007-06-09.
Sometimes it’s impossible to refrain from pointing out the ironies found on Bloggers 4 Sayre. Here’s an amusing self-contradictory quote from Yankee Phillip.
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Ann, Elle, The Flu and The Dog.
2007-06-14.
A while back, pseudonymous blogger “Teddy Roosevelt” popped up* in the Virginia blogosphere to oppose the rhetoric from Bloggers 4 Sayre. He delivered a shocking bombshell (superfluous writing used for dramatic effect): On June 2, Teddy alleged that “Elle” of In-Politically Correct is really Ann Taetzsch, Staunton Republican Committee Chairperson, and “General Grievous’ Dog” is really Augusta County Chairman Kurt Michael. Several other Virginia bloggers picked up on the news and repeated it, and it now seems to be regarded as established lore.
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Did The News Leader Spurn Sayre Or Vice Versa?.
2007-06-16.
(I’m trying something new here. It’s loosely modeled after various media watchdog blogs like Media Matters and NewsBusters.)
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Did Bloggers 4 Sayre beat the ODBA?.
2007-06-20.
In a June 19 comment on The Virginia Federalist, Spank That Donkey claimed that 18 Virginia conservative bloggers came together for Bloggers 4 Sayre, topping even the Old Dominion Blogging Alliance. In fact, as of June 20, 2007, the ODBA aggregator contained a total of 44 blogs. Furthermore, a closer examination of Bloggers 4 Sayre through June 11, 2007 reveals that only 10 of the 18 bloggers listed posted more than once, and the majority of all posts were written by just 3 bloggers.
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2007-12
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The Blogs Are Back In Town.
2007-12-08.
I see that many of the same Virginia bloggers that brought us the entertaining and divisive Bloggers 4 Sayre are back for an encore performance with Bloggers 4 Jim Gilmore. I wonder if they’ll write anything about their candidate this time. Hyuk, hyuk.
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2008-01
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Meet The New Boss….
2008-01-28.
Since I first saw SWAC Girl’s post welcoming Spank That Donkey to the ODBA, I couldn’t help but think that there was going to be trouble in that organization. Could Spank and Shaun Kenney – bitter rivals on opposite poles of Virginia Republicanism – co-exist together in the same organization?
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2008-03
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Those are in Richmond?.
2008-03-09.
So I guess SWAC Girl was in Richmond recently taking pictures again (which seems to be her life’s work now that the Republican party is leaning more moderate). What’s funny is that I’ve lived in Virginia all my life – have lived around Richmond for most of my life – and I’ve never seen any of the buildings in her pictures, let alone been inside them. I suck.
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2009-07
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Quick Thoughts on Sarah Palin’s Resignation.
2009-07-04.
Blogs on the right are saying Gov. Sarah Palin resigned because the left’s smear tactics finally got to her, blogs on the left are saying Gov. Palin quit because she’s dumb and irrational.
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