Friday, 01 Mar- Fred Pruitt insists that Rantburg is a warblog. I completely agree. I've considered setting up a section of 'specialists' for those who specialize in certain areas. He'd be there.
- There are blogs I read that are not strictly -- and sometimes not at all -- political/war blogs. I've also considered setting up a section for those. Rat's Nest, for instance, is almost invariably entertaining. The only reason he's not on my links is that he is more a true weblog than a political weblog. (He'd also get a lot more mentions if he'd learn to make permalinks -- yeah, that's a hint).
- The Vodka Pundit has now been officially promoted to the Special Forces.
- I've taken the philosophy test too. Problem is there were questions where there were two good answers, or two answers where I partly agreed with both, or one answer where I agreed -- with a few caveats. Changing those answers (or their weight) did odd things. So: My top five are Mill, Rand, Hume, Epicureans, and Hobbes -- in order of how often they showed up on top (I changed things about 15 times). I will note one thing; though, the one at dead last was always Augustine. He did beat out Simone de Beauvoir; who never showed on my list at all.
- Disinformation is a valid -- and often successful tactic. The Captain of the USS Clueless explains.
- John Pilger (my spellchecker still wants Piglet...) is at it again. This one is so completely off the wall that it doesn't even deserve response. If you suffer from low blood pressure; though, do go read it.
Oh... yeah... and the Mirror is now describing the fool as: "Legendary foreign correspondent John Pilger". Makes sense to me. He belongs in the class of things like hydras, sea serpents and other mythical monsters. - Seems the detainees at Guantanamo are on a hunger strike. It's so kind of them to save us all that money we've been spending on "culturally appropriate" foods. (I'm still trying to find a way to get the military there to donate leftover bagels to poor starving bloggers in Florida...)
- If people want to kill, they will find a way. The same applies if they want to defend themselves.
- I'm considering going back to a blogging program. If each of my short bits were seperate posts, I'd rival the Instapundit.
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- Congratulations to Megan McArdle, of Live from the WTC, for her promotion from Blogosphere Regular Army to Special Forces.
- The inimitable Vodka Pundit is also due for a step up (assuming he doesn't stumble on the step). He has got himself his own brand shiny new site, and will receive his promotion as soon as he gets his blog moved to his new place.
- Megan McArdle has an excellent idea about the Daniel Pearl videotape. Considering the way Google works in selecting links, plus the fact that Google likes blogs, I suspect that if enough of us link her lovely graphic, it will come up first. Anyone looking on the web for a snuff film of Daniel Pearl probably deserves what he or she gets. Admittedly we will probably catch a few bloggers or journalists too, but I bet a lot of them will link it! (I'd link her article, but she hasn't got her archives working yet --so just click and page down)
- I didn't blog yesterday. I got busy with offline things, and just didn't feel like writing. That's one of the advantages of blogs!
- Just in case the blogosphere hasn't all noticed, MommaBear is now blog-sharing at Dodgeblog. I think we've succeeded in corrupting her!
- More later....
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