Wednesday, 30 Jan 2002Yet More blogs added  I have added more new blogs in addition to Grasshoppa's blog, which I linked because he caught me being stupid. - Andrew Olmsted: "Personal Observations on current events, politics, baseball, and whatever else enters my twisted mind." He may have a twisted mind, but it's a pretty intelligent twisted mind.
- Ranting and Roaring by David P. Janes:"Now less useless than a nuclear submarine!" That's pretty damned useful!
- The Blogs of War by Dr. Frank:"Don't go back-- we'll be right away". Ummm, ok. If you say so.
- Quare by Eve Kayden: "All the news I can stand." Awww, c'mon -- you can stand some more...
- Protein Wisdom: "Welcome to protein wisdom, the weblog of Creatical.com, maintained by a loose alliance of fiction writers, poets, university educators, and wannabe pundits." Welcome to my links list, all of you.
- Insolvent Republic Of Blogistan by Justin Slotman: "The call and response of blogmaking continues --everyone has one and everyone says they're no sweat to have. I figure, why not put my thoughts out there? So here they are." You've got some good thoughts there, glad you put them out. By the way, I love your blog title.
- Other Blog News: I've changed the link previously named Jane Galt (at janegalt.blogspot.com) to her proper blog title of "Live from the WTC". The libertarians reading this may appreciate why I delayed changing it.
The Daily Pundit was previously known as The Blogical Suspect (a blog name I loved) but he is switching to a real site (like mine) at dailypundit.com, so I decided to respect his wish to be the Daily Pundit.
Short Stuff Just in case anyone is wondering, Short Stuff was started because I'm too darned lazy to do a separate post for every single interesting news item I found. Some are ones I just think readers might like a 'heads up' on, or might enjoy reading. It's my version of a news blog. Since I do this by hand, with no blogging program, it's a pain to keep uploading a home page and archive page for every short post. The title is also a kind of personal joke, since I'm pretty damned short. So... back to Short Stuff. - You may notice I have a quote from last night's speech at blog-top today. I think it is a pretty good statement, though I'd have been happier if he'd also advocated respect for men and children. I put it up there to remind me to keep an eye on everything he advocates that violates those "non-negotiable demands". I intend to send a letter to the White House every time I see a piece of legislation that he might sign that violates them. Sigh... he's likely to get a letter almost each day that one or the other legislature is in session.
- I was watching Fox News for the speech last night, but I turned it off before their "analysts" came on, because I found their "teaser" so damned offensive. It was "What did President Bush really say?" Excuse me? I really do think I can understand him fine for myself. I don't need condescending media to explain plain English to me. If it had been William F. Buckley making the speech I could understand that teaser -- but the president rarely uses words of over three syllables. If you didn't watch the speech, you can read it here
- Tony Adragna also did a fact check on Pilger, with lots of commentary and Damian Penny checked it against a checklist of stereotypical "anti-war, anti-American writing" They both linked my rant. I love the blogosphere.
- Suggested motto for Will Vehrs' Pundit Watch page :"What did the pundits really say?" He's got a new one up, by the way. I read it. Go thou, and do likewise.
- Michael Kelly has a rant about the Cardinals and Bishops who covered up the activities of the pedophile Priest. His main focus is on Cardinal Law, and Kelly thinks Law should resign. I don't think Mr. Kelly goes far enough. Law should resign and all of those should be investigated by the justice system for aiding and abetting. Priestly 'confidence of confession' is one thing, deliberately reassigning a known pedophile to a position where he can easily continue his activities would get any non-church official prosecuted right along with the pedophile. It should also get churchmen prosecuted. Just think what would happen to a school principal who reassigned a teacher known to be a pedophile to another school.
- One more small comment on Bush's speech (I'm still thinking about some aspects.) I am glad he included 'Homeland Security' and the Peace Corps in his "4,000 hours" suggestion. I was very afraid he was going to tell us all to be good little citizens and let the government take care of it all.
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More on Pilger Grasshoppa, whose blog has been newly listed on the left, has pointed out that I missed a very obvious error (or lie) in the Pilger article I critiqued yesterday. I feel pretty dumb for missing that one. But I have a new blog to read, so some good came of my embarrassment.
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