Thoughts, Prayers, Wishes

I've met Learned Foot, his wife, Mrs. Foot, and both of their little Feet. They're great people, and a wonderful couple - among my favorite people on the MOB, itself among my favorite people. So I felt like I'd been...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Only The Good Quit Young

Rambix, one of the Twin Cities' essential blog reads, is retiring the Red Star blog:The challenge is there is no natural stopping point for a blog. I never really had a time frame in mind when I started blogging; I...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Oversight Exposed

Via Norwegianity, I see, I've committed an oversight:..here's more from Joe Bodell on Brodkorb's monumental hypocrisy, Spotty on factotums, Patrick (multiple posts which is only fitting since he was incomprehensibly savaged by Brodkorb last week over absolutely nothing at all),...
Posted by Mitch on September 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

Ryan and Foot, Take Note

Normblog links us to the world's first all-limerick dictionary - in which all definitions are user-submitted five-line rhymes. No, really:Autochthon An autochthon is something that's found In a place that is in or around The location where it Was first...
Posted by Mitch on August 29, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Big Time

Regional bloggers have gotten over the thrill of making it into the Strib's "Blog House" [1]. But having one of our little mob of bloggers get into CJ's column (the Strib's gossip column)? That's a new one. CJ covers Peg...
Posted by Mitch on August 21, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Fixing Oversights

After a couple days' thought, I realize that I left two glaring omissions from my Blogs I Read Every Day list on Friday. But I blame technology for one of them. My list was of blogs I read on my...
Posted by Mitch on August 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

There Goes the 'Hood

Learned Foot joins KvM. Invites to the KvM Christmas Party will be the hottest ticket in town....
Posted by Mitch on July 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

It's a Dirty Job

In liberal Minnesota, the blogosphere of record is conservative. Not that there aren't some decent leftybloggers in the state (although a distressing number of them are nasty, snarling, ill-tempered little schnauzers); there are. I've noted as much in this space....
Posted by Mitch on June 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (36) | TrackBack

So Over

Over at Nihilist in Golf Pants - a blog with eight or ten contributors that manages a post or two a day that I used to read daily - I find myself on the wrong end of a "Top 11...
Posted by Mitch on June 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

It's a Girl!

Belated 'grats to Kelly the Patriette, who welcomed baby Amy this past week. Something about reading about pregnancy on blogs makes it feel like the human gestation period is 22 months. It was, of course, not. Congrats!...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Dolt Opens Blog: Nobody Cares

Some people can handle free speech. Others have a hard time with a simple, civil conversation [*]. Let me introduce you to "Liverspot", writer of "Minneapolis Upside Down", a leftyblog I linked for the first and last time yesterday. Lil'...
Posted by Mitch on June 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Return of the Comments

Fixed it....
Posted by Mitch on May 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Almost As Good As Comments

Learned Foot, pitching in to help while my comment section is down, has opened up a comment thread for any of my commenters that might need a place to leave a thought. Enjoy....
Posted by Mitch on May 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Official Best Blog In The Upper Midwest...

...is Jay Reding. If you're not reading him daily, it's your loss. There's no other way to put it. (Thanks for the answer, Jay!)...
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Who?

Bob Collins at Polinaut on the unspoken factor, allege some, in the future of blogs as a medium:The unrecognize factor in calculating where this medium is going, however, is the effect of blogger burnout. Most of them simply don't last...
Posted by Mitch on May 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

I'm Hoping...

that this is just a testing error......
Posted by Mitch on May 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Currahee!

Yep. I thought about joining the service. Three times. The first, I was 17. I thought - very seriously - about joining the Army and going to Germany. A combination of a National Merit scholarship and my mother getting a...
Posted by Mitch on April 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Irrational Exuberance

Local Leftyblogger The Wege joins with a chorus of leftybloggers to yip like a pack of chihuahuas about Hugh Hewitt's knees at the news that Hewitt's traffic is off:Golden State hacks the numbers and Hugh Hewitt just isn't as popular...
Posted by Mitch on April 21, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Rails Is Rails. Lies Is Lies.

There was a time when rail mass transit made sense. Eighty or ninety years ago - when my grandfather Oscar Berg was working as a conductor on the Como Avenue trolley line, urban mass transit made sense; the lines had...
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (35) | TrackBack

Yost Blogs

Mark Yost - until last week an associate editor at the PiPress - has entered the world of blogging. Showing perhaps more ambition than sense (heh), Yost has actually teed up two blogs - Iraq Heroes and The Home Front....
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

For Whom The Bell Rings

Sorry to see The First Ringer, one of the best regional blogs out there, is calling it quits. The Ringer was a daily read, one of the best writers and most incisive commentators out there. He'll continue blogging at KvM,...
Posted by Mitch on April 11, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Polinaut's Question: Late To The Station

Bob Collins of Minnesota Public Radio does "Polinaut", covering regional/national politics. Almost a week ago, Collins asked bloggers to disclose their connections to political campaigns, given that we just got some of the same immunity from speech rationing laws that...
Posted by Mitch on April 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

E-Lynching?

A couple of days ago, I ran a piece - along with a slew of other conservative bloggers - on remarks allegedly made by Prof. Eric Pianka which, a detractor claimed, showed Pianka eagerly looked forward to a pandemic wiping...
Posted by Mitch on April 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

And the #5 Problem That Would Be Solved...

...by reading Nihilist, according to Jess at Blind Cavefish...Me: What did you see? Julie: [In a tone that suggests I won't know what she's talking about] Brokeback Mountain? Have you seen it? Me: Yeah. Did you like it? Julie: I...
Posted by Mitch on April 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Ha!

Hah, I say again....
Posted by Mitch on March 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

This Is Good News...

MLP - wife of my alma mater's basketball coach, as luck would have it, and sister of one of my favorite MOB bloggers - has started her own blog. It's pretty new - like, eight posts - but I like...
Posted by Mitch on March 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Best. Fraters. Post. Ever.

Atomizer on Laura Billings' most recent column, in which she describes the semi-gritty, somewhat downmarket West End of Saint Paul:This is not to say that St. Paul is cozy and small-town. We have more edge than that. The standard greeting...
Posted by Mitch on March 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Loonalanche

I'm not quite sure what happened, but my comment section got bumrushed yesterday. I must have stood too close to one of the entrances to the fever swamp. Typical of the comments (although this is a blog post) was this...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (113) | TrackBack

The Antibiotic Report

Foot over at KAR is having a rough week. Stop by and offer your best wishes. Unless you're a barking moonbat. That'll just aggravate him....
Posted by Mitch on March 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Rite of Spring

A phone message gave me advance notice of the first sign of spring in the Midway:Spring has sprung in the Midway, I tapped my first keg of the season. Now it's time to check the schedule and see when I...
Posted by Mitch on March 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

MOBalanche!

Doug Bass has done a formidable job with MOBANGE! - the Minnesota Organization of Blogs' aggregator. Kudos, Doug. You could have a career as a programmer......
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Night Writer Is One!

Wish a happy first birthday to The Night Writer! 2004 and early 2005 was a great year for blogs......
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

When The Bottom Falls Out

It was just a shade over three years ago that the contract I was working on got un-funded in mid-recession. I spent five months with no work at all, and five more with just subsistence work - 40-60 hours a...
Posted by Mitch on February 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Small World

This guy has not only been an amazingly successful basketball coach at Minneapolis Community Technical College (MCTC) for like the last zillion seasons...:Jay Pivec has gained a reputation for winning and developing talent at MCTC, compiling a 340-87 record in...
Posted by Mitch on January 16, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

If It Ain't Broke

I've been following the lawsuit between Twin Cities PR consultant Blois Olson and Michael "Minnesota Democrat Exposer" Brodkorb. In the comment section to the post linked above, commenter "PB" echoed a sentiment other people in the media - most recently...
Posted by Mitch on January 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (25) | TrackBack

It's About Speech

First things first: my allegiances. I back Michael Brodkorb in his defense against Blois Olson's lawsuit. I'll be ponying up a buck or two for his legal defense fund, come payday. I've also been acquainted with Blois Olsen for a...
Posted by Mitch on January 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Lah Di Friggin' Da

Brady Averill of the PiPress looks ahead to blogs' potential impact on the '06 campaign. She misses the most important point of all. Averill kicks off with an ironic aside:"There are some right-wing blogs that even if you tried to...
Posted by Mitch on December 27, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

New Jack Analysis

Chad the Elder:If Bobby Brown was President (shudder), he might justify the NSA wiretapping in song, "I don't need commission, make my own decisions. That's my prerogative." Hm. And if rapper Ice Cube were Bobby Brown's press secretary, he could...
Posted by Mitch on December 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Dilemma

Trying to figure out what's the best part about Michael Yon winning the Best Media/Journalist Blog award in the '05 Weblog Awards; the fact that his excellent, groundbreaking blog won... ...or that it won by clobbering James Wolcott by a...
Posted by Mitch on December 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

A Month's Worth Of Material...

...is in the current American Enterprise magazine. And I'm going to blog about a bunch of it. But there's too much good stuff here not to share it. So read it!...
Posted by Mitch on December 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Hmmmm

Right Wing News has the results of its fourth annual "Best Warblogger" awards. As an aside - perhaps it's a sign of how the blogosphere has evolved that very few of the listed are overtly "War blogs", to the point...
Posted by Mitch on December 05, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Someone's Getting Desperate

There's a certain over-heated, takes-herself-way-too-seriously blogger who must be desperate for hits; she's taking more broad little swipes at me. Oh, I'm not going to link to her; some of you know who I'm talking about; the rest of you...
Posted by Mitch on December 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Big Words

There are a few local leftybloggers whose work I like. "MNPublius" hasn't yet gotten to that point. His post Monday, entitled "KvM Lies - Again And Again And Again...", attacks my good friends at Kennedy Versus The Machine - in...
Posted by Mitch on November 30, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (19) | TrackBack

Required Reading...

...for all commenters, effective immediately. Just read it....
Posted by Mitch on November 29, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Open Letter To "Inside Minnesota Politics"

Ladies and Gentlemen, In protest against your specious attempt to file suit against Minnesota Democrats Exposed, I must insist that you put my name on your blogroll... ...so that I can insist that you remove it immediately. Your prompt attention...
Posted by Mitch on November 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Jagoffs Exposed

Minnesota Democrats Exposed has been a consistent fly in the DFL's soup for about the past eighteen months. He's developed quite an anti-cult of personality at the DFL. And boy, are they pissed. MDE announced yesterday that "Inside Minnesota Politics",...
Posted by Mitch on November 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

The Racists Within

We've noted in this space in the past that the most dangerous thing to be in the whole world is a moderate Arab. It's been true for eighty years now; when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem - a man whose...
Posted by Mitch on November 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Department of Desperately Stupid Ideas

Why resist the UN's drive to gobble up the Internet? Let the National Taxpayers Union count the ways....
Posted by Mitch on November 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

And The Angels In Heaven Rejoiced

Hugh makes the long-awaited announcement:If you are a regular listener, you will notice that I have retired Canned Heat from the top-of-each hour's intro music. Our father in heaven: Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you....
Posted by Mitch on November 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Get Out The Vote

In Saint Paul, sure. But also in this week's edition of Generalissimo Duane's Blog Of The Week competition. The Minnesota Organization of Bloggers' own "Peace Like A River" has an excellent entry in this week's competition. Make sure you get...
Posted by Mitch on November 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Cooking and Conspiracy-Theory Politics: An Experiment

One of my favorite recipes in the world is this one, for scratch-made Margherita Pizza, from the "Delicious Dish Splendid Table" website. With a little practice, it's a light, delicious veggie pizza that makes a perfect appetizer or light dinner...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

The Blog Family Tree

Via Doug, I see that the Kommissar over at Politburo Diktat is putting together a blog family tree. If you have a blog and are interested, go to this post, and leave a comment listing: your blogfather, or blogmother, as...
Posted by Mitch on October 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

If In New York...

...anytime in the four or five weeks after November 12, make sure you check out Sheila O'Malley's new play. At $19 a ticket, it's gotta be the best entertainment value available for a night in NYC (that doesn't involve throwing...
Posted by Mitch on October 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Top 12 Reasons I Read "Nihilist In Golf Pants" So Rarely

"Twelve is one more than eleven". -- Nigel Tufnel. I think. 12. Sisyphus' name has too many vowels. If his name only had fewer of the accursed vowels... 11. Who do they think they are - the Fraters' B-squad? 10....
Posted by Mitch on October 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Attention Search Parties

It's been a week since Katie at Yucky Salad posted. Your public is getting restless, maam....
Posted by Mitch on October 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Small World?

I was surfing some new local blogs, and I noted the "Viking Underground" blog, written by a Brian Maas. Brian is also co-proprietor of "Four Hoarse Men", which delves into non-sport stuff (or so they say). Maas, if memory serves...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Katrina Blog Relief Wrapup

I checked out the final results for the "Liberal Blogs for Hurricane Relief" effort. About $180K. Hey, every penny counts. Good thing it wasn't a bunch of heartless, self-absorbed conservative bloggers. No, I'm not trying to be catty. I kid...
Posted by Mitch on October 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

For the 14th Time...

...Kate at Yucky Salad with Bones is turning 24. Congrats! Your brother in law is still wrong about Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, though....
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Doug Runs for the Border

Doug from Bogus Gold explores the inner zen of Taco Bell:Years of exhaustive first-hand field research of this sort has finally allowed me to pierce the veil of mystery and explain the eternal question: "What's up with the seeming randomness...
Posted by Mitch on October 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

It's Official

The 'Official' President Al Gore Blog covers what might have been. Or maybe...what is? MulDER?...
Posted by Mitch on September 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Not Especially Observant

I used to rip on Mark Gisleson - proprietor of Norwegianity, one of the bigger local leftyblogs. He's written (and continues to write) a few howlers, but he's a leftyblogger; you expect him to bring down the Fox News Network?...
Posted by Mitch on September 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Power of the Medium Sized Blog

Joe Carter on The 5/150 Principle" href="http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/001584.html">the 5/150 Principle...[w]e bloggers rarely appreciate the power we possess. Instead of being constantly amazed at the potential influence we wield, we carp and whine (if only to ourselves) that we don’t have the...
Posted by Mitch on September 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Does This Sound Fun, Or What?

Remember two years ago, when people still talked about "Social Networking" websites? Places like "Friendster" and "Orkan"? The idea, near as I can figure it, is that people were supposed to sign up, put a "profile" on the site, and...
Posted by Mitch on September 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

It Had To Happen

I've had "Shot in The Dark" for three and a half years, now (or, depending on who's counting, perhaps as much as 1010 years). Now, I see there's another blog, "A Shot In The Dark", written by one Sandra Miller...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Got Giggles?

With the addition of Ken Avidor to the roster the "Dump Bachmann" blog is officially a hate site; Avidor's crude photoshops of Michele Bachmann posing with Adolph Hitler, were they written about a liberal by a Republican, would most likely...
Posted by Mitch on August 27, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Everyone Is MDE

I've been reading Shawn Towle's "Checks And Balances" off and on for years, now. On the one hand, I have to hand it to Towle, being able to make money (any money) doing a paid web-based political newsletter in the...
Posted by Mitch on August 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Shocking Admission

Sheila O'Malley admits:sometimes I like to dance around my room and lip synch to Kelly Clarkson.The post is actually about the Stans, the former Soviet nations in central Asia. We oughtta get her and King together over a beer or...
Posted by Mitch on August 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Shout Out

Hugh mentions Chris Muir's Day By Day in his latest Weekly Standard column....
Posted by Mitch on August 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

My Party, Right or Wrong?

The Kool Aid Report has long been one of my favorite MOB blogs (and it's hard to pick favorites - so many of them are excellent). But there's a thread going on there now that makes me a little nervous....
Posted by Mitch on August 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (38) | TrackBack

Swiftee Throws Down

You know it's going to be an interesting thread when it ends:It's just that simple. I'm waiting scumbag.Normally, I don't get involved in blog squabbles. They tend to be tiresome, and differ in no details from the USENET squabbles, which...
Posted by Mitch on August 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Say It Ain't So, Arthur!

Arthur Chrenkoff is retiring his blog due to professional conflicts. Hopefully someone will take over his Good News from Afghanistan and Iraq beat....
Posted by Mitch on August 05, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Submitted Without Comment

Just read it....
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

A Mighty Wind Breaks

The NARN and the Northern Alliance blogs have been credited, I'm grateful and humbled to say, with being the influence that helped kick off a lot of the newer local blogs in the past year. However, I believe this is...
Posted by Mitch on July 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Belated Wishes

A belated Happy Birthday to Minnesota Democrats Exposed, which turned one year old yesterday. It's been a great run so far for the mysterious Exposer. And I have a hunch his best days are ahead of him....
Posted by Mitch on July 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Barry At The Water Cooler

Barry Hickethier has a new blog, Water Cooler Wisdom. Today's episode - the Stem Cell debate. Read it....
Posted by Mitch on July 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Get Your Own Name, Buddy

While trawling the HuffPo for material (even easier than tuning in the local FrankenNet affiliate), I was shocked to see what I thought was my blog on the Huffpo blogroll. "Shots In The Dark". "Close enough", I figured, and clicked....
Posted by Mitch on July 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Free Alex!

Brian from Boviosity notes that his cat Alex is doing hard time for a crime he... ...well, he committed it, all right. But here's all our best wishes for a speedy re-trial and release. Feel free to send your own....
Posted by Mitch on July 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

A Million Guys' Vanishing Option...

...is one couple's lifetime of bliss. Congrats, Miss O'Hara!...
Posted by Mitch on July 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Drink Deeply

Jay Reding has long been one of my favorites - one of the very few MOB bloggers who's been at it longer than I. He's re-branded his blog - it's now Single Malt Pundit.com. If there's a blogger that should...
Posted by Mitch on July 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Like Learned Foot In Your Face. Forever.

For all of us Slavic Lit geeks, Nihilist in Golf Pants' One Day In The Life of Sisyphus series (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three) are essential reads. Pass it on to your favorite ham-fisted lefty "satire" sitemongers (you...
Posted by Mitch on July 05, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Books

Paul from Flown To The Roll tagged me for this meme, which seems to be sweeping the MOB....
Posted by Mitch on June 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Why Do Leftyblogs Hate Logic?

I try to read a of leftyblogs. It's not always easy. There are some modestly good ones out there - the very, very few that resist the urge to turn into echo chambers. There aren't many. Usually, my efforts to...
Posted by Mitch on June 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Taking Predictions

The City Pages has decommissioned the old "Babelogue" brand, and commissioned a new, single-point linkblog, The Blotter (UPDATE: Not, of course, "Blogger". Doy). It seems to get updated a lot more than the Babs did, but with shorter, linkier pieces....
Posted by Mitch on June 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Bloggerism and Journalism

Wog from Wog's Blog on the journalism of blogs:It is certainly no great insight of mine that Bloggerism is to Journalism what Pulitzer and Hearst were to Newspapering. Bigtime shake-up. I am just thrilled to be in on it in...
Posted by Mitch on June 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Unclear On The Concept

It must be nice to be a leftyblog in Minnesota. I say this objectively, without a trace of arrogance intended; the conservative bloggers in Minnesota have the traffic. More than that, they have the mojo, the buzz, the oomph, the...
Posted by Mitch on June 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Vital Stats

The New Patriot blog - one of the better (read: Less comically-scurillous) leftyblogs: In the past 30 days, 9 contributors have generated a total of 21 posts = .076 postings per contributor per day. Mitch at Shot In The Dark...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

He Saw It First

Lileks notes:Ahem. I’m not saying it’s a brilliant line ["In the future, everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes"] that could only fall out my capacious head, and no disrespect intended towards Jeff, but I did coin it first. Over...
Posted by Mitch on June 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Day Of Appeals

Two things:Captain Ed is running a logo contest for his "Not One Dime" drive - his push to "make our voices heard at the RNC by withholding donations to the NRSC until the GOP caucus improves its leadership in the...
Posted by Mitch on May 27, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Our Evening With The Governor

I should mention that the NARN guys - John and Scott from Powerline, King from SCSU Scholars, Cap'n Ed, Warrior Monk from Spitbull, the Fraters' Saint, Elder, JB and Atomizer, as well as Bogus Doug, John from First Ring, Gary...
Posted by Mitch on May 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Toast

It had to happen. It's actually a lot better than the Huffpo - not that we couldn't predict that. (Via my neighbor, Peter Hoh, who should be doing a blog, dagnabbit)...
Posted by Mitch on May 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

God Will Leave The Room

I figured that if I waited long enough, the HuffPo would eventually have one piece worth reading. In and among the various starlets giving each other rhetorical french-kisses, there's an excellent piece from Quincy Jones on the problem with Michael...
Posted by Mitch on May 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

The Pre-Post "Post" Post

Nikki Finke declares the Huffpo DOA:What her bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn’t accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort...
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Posted Up

Arianna Huffington's new Designer Blog, The Huffington Post, is up. Most of the pre-debut snarking was fairly accurate - it's a haven for Hollywood-left dilettantes, for the most part. But the initial post brought back a long national nightmare....
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Huff, Puff

The Guardian's parody of Arianna Huffington's celebrity blog will probably be better than the real thing....
Posted by Mitch on April 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Zero Two Mike, Embedded Blogger?

Private Ryan at Zero Two Mike Soldier is an army reservist, as well as author of the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers' only genuine milblog. There is talk (in last Friday's post) that his unit may be deploying. The MOB's first...
Posted by Mitch on April 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

And You Thought You Were Having A Crazy Week

Wog's travails continue:Whilst on the health topic, I heard from the Fairview University Liver Transplant "Team" that my voluminous records had been received and that the appointment for the initial evaluation will come within a month. I'm still hoping they...
Posted by Mitch on April 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

In The Shadow of the Penitentiary

Last year, I wrote a post about my evolving appreciation of Bruce Springsteen's music (of which more later this week). A puerile local blogger took a particularly dimwitted, snide whack at it. Well, to quote Bruce himself, "I'm still there,...
Posted by Mitch on April 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Point Of Order

Swiftie at Fiskwa is, thankfully, active again, whacking away at Nick Coleman's "radio show". However, there's something I need to point out; call it a "learning experience". Tom whiffed on one minor point....
Posted by Mitch on April 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Ed Is Everywhere

Captain Ed, of Captain's Quarters, is bigger than Wayne Gretzky these days, at least if you're talking about Canadian politics:Edward Morrissey, 42, began posting allegations of corruption in the Canadian Liberal Party late Saturday on his Captain's Quarters blog, a...
Posted by Mitch on April 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Persona Non Grata, Eh?

For the five of you who read this blog before reading Captain Ed, the story over there is pretty amazing. One of the big jokes after the election was all the liberals, upset over John Kerry's defeat, who expressed interest...
Posted by Mitch on April 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Blog America

Has the left learned nothing from Air America's first year? Apparently not:In a move unlikely only because it's taken this long to happen, pundit-about-town Arianna Huffington is extending her hosting largess to the blogosphere. This month the wannabe California governor...
Posted by Mitch on April 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Outrageous

Some lefty moonbats hijacked The Kool Aid Report. They even took me on::C'mon Mitch you facist retard! You're just bitching cuz you don't have your own radio show with dozens of adoring listeners. Hell, you wish you had even half...
Posted by Mitch on April 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

I Can't Feel Bad

Wog chronicles his latest travails over at Wog's Blog. The story would make a great book, honestly....
Posted by Mitch on March 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Real Friends, Blog Friends

Big Dan Champion writes "Popping Culture", an excellent blog by any measure. He's also in the midst of - from the sound of it - a grueling round of chemotherapy for cancer. He writes in this wonderful post about the...
Posted by Mitch on March 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Paper Armies

I cited a NYTimes piece the other day about liberal bloggers starting a series of conference calls with the major media. One of the subjects - Bob Fertik of conspiracy site Democrats.com - responds today. For those of us who've...
Posted by Mitch on March 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Nope. No Liberal Media Here

From yesterday's NYTimes, we learn that Technology > Liberal Bloggers Reaching Out to Major Media" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/technology/14blog.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5089&en=dcf71d8b14aa8b53&ex=1268456400&partner=rssyahoo">leftyblogs feel they don't get no respect. So what are they doing about it?ven as online pundits criticize traditional news organizations as slow, biased and...
Posted by Mitch on March 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

One Of The Cool Things...

...about blogging in the long term is seeing how other blogs develop. There are a few blogs in the MOB (I single the MOB out because I'm most familiar with them over the long term) whose quality - indeed, whose...
Posted by Mitch on March 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Snap Back To Reality

People wonder why conservatives have a problem with McCain. He's every liberal's favorite Republican (except for here in Minnesota, where the distinction is held by Elmer Anderson, who embodies everything liberals want from a Minnesota Republican; he's pro-tax, and he's...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Everyone Wants Blood

With Rather out of the way, we bloggers are constantly asked - who's next? Paul Demko on the City Pages Babelogue sees chum in the water:Gina La Force, director of the St. Paul Public Library system, has resigned. Dedicated readers...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

We Happy Few, We Brand of Bothers

I was feeling nostalgic the other day. I took a little detour through my micropunditry past. Something occurred to me which I'm going to blow completely out of proportion. Bear with me....
Posted by Mitch on February 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Putting the Punk in Punxatawny

Speaking of whom... The annual rite of spring here in my little corner of the Midway is Anoka Flash's ceremonial First Tapping of the Kegerator - a keg fridge he keeps in his garage. Once spring springs and the fizzy...
Posted by Mitch on February 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Blast From The Past III

Jim Klobuchar has a blog. More or less. Don't remember Klobuchar? He was a columnist at the Strib - pardon the redundancy - for thirty years. He retired sometime in the last decade. Like Nick Coleman, he tirelessly flogged the...
Posted by Mitch on February 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Anatomy Of A Mugging

There's something about zealots. They have the worst manners. I've run across this two or three times in the three years I've been running this blog. Twice, I ran afoul of Atrios and Oliver Willis; small packs of their readers...
Posted by Mitch on February 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

The Brain Gap

I was raised to be civil - to try to abjure name-calling, to live by the golden rule. I'm not perfect - sometimes I'm less perfect than others, but I do try. I'll step outside my upbringing for a moment,...
Posted by Mitch on February 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

He Blogged a Guy, Just To Watch Him Die

Folsom James Phillips - longtime commenter and email correspondent on all the NARN blogs - posts on the Monkeys that we finally met after all these years. It was a pleasure! But I had to respond to this:It was nice...
Posted by Mitch on February 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Get Off My Lawn

I remember when this blog was just getting going. Nobody knew what "blogs" were, of course; "sounds like something that happens after a night of Pfeiffer and Taco Bell" - but that's the least of it. Way back when, we...
Posted by Mitch on February 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

A Typical Day In The Life Of A Group Of Right-Wing Bloggers

The NARN did its live remote at the White Bear Lake Pontiac/GMC/Hyundai superstore. It was a wondrous day of bashing Jimmy Carter, laughing at the poor and chipping away at both the media's credibility and hammering on the the Minnesota...
Posted by Mitch on February 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

They're Back!

The good news: The Minnesota Organization of Bloggers has a new, all-female group-blog, the M.A.W.B. Squad. The last we checked, it included the bloggers from Cathy in the Wright, Citizen Jo, and DC from Brainstorming. They go, however, by the...
Posted by Mitch on February 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Dilemma

Arthur Chrenkoff has a problem: Michael Moore not only noticed him, but he was...polite. Moore (or as Tim Blair refers to him, "Tubby Riefenstahl") refers to the Australian, most famous for his updates on un-covered stories in Iraq, as "...the...
Posted by Mitch on February 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

From Small Threats, Big Things One Day Come

First, Jo threatened to board up the attic. Then, Cathy spawned a great idea - a group blog by a bunch of women who met via the MOB (to the best of my knowledge). Just do it!...
Posted by Mitch on February 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

It's Everywhere

Val Prieto Updated)" href="http://www.babalublog.com/archives/001377.html">has the same crud that I've had... ...for the past four weeks....
Posted by Mitch on February 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Kos of Death (or: How I Learned To Love The Daily Kos)

Markos Moulitsas is big. Real big. Among Democrats. That's a good thing for Republicans. Dean Barnett writes in the Weekly Standard about the Kos phenomenon....
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

He's Back

Tim Blair has not only recovered from a comment-spam attack that took his site off the air... ...but has a much better-looking site in the bargain. Now we can work on finding and dissecting spammers......
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

They're Everywhere

The North Dakota State Legislature has adopted blogging. Five state legislators and the legislature itself are running blogs during this session (which, in North Dakota, happens every other year). Tim Mathern [D-Fargo] is by far the most prolific of the...
Posted by Mitch on January 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Congrats!

Kelly the Patriette has some big news. Her boyfriend fiance is on his way to Afghanistan - and will hopefully be blogging from the scene. Congrats to Kelly and Josh, and best wishes from the whole staff and management at...
Posted by Mitch on January 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Return of Wog

Wog is back after several harrowing months away from the keyboard. The story - which has unfolded on Wog's Blog for the past six months or so - is a harrowing one; illness, alcoholism, a DWI (to which the illness...
Posted by Mitch on January 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

You Educational Dollars' Worth

So Big Trunk, Rocket Man, Deacon, and their classmate Paul Gambaccini went to Dartmouth... ...and they all wound up in weekend radio? So much for the benefits of an Ivy League education. Sheesh....
Posted by Mitch on January 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Lid's Been Blown Off

In the wake of the Armstrong Williams scandal - during which we learned that Markos "Screw 'em" Moulitsas of the Daily Kos' idea of "full disclosure" involves non-full disclosure - we learn what key conservative bloggers have been earning....
Posted by Mitch on January 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Bloggers On The Air

A quick read of Lakeshore Laments shows that the idea of using bloggers as, to coin a phrase, insta-pundits on talk radio is spreading, slowly but surely:Been invited to appear tomorrow morning on "The Charlie Sykes Show" with other Wisconsin...
Posted by Mitch on January 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

New Nation?

Howard Fineman's new piece on the MSNBC site ends:In this situation, the last thing the AMMP (American Major Media Party - read the piece, it's explained early on) needed was to aim wildly at the president — and not only...
Posted by Mitch on January 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Swing, Miss

I haven't yet read the entire Thornburgh/Boccardi report, although I will. Having skimmed, and read many other reports (most notably Hugh and Michelle Malkin's day-long series, the big question seems to be why did the report seem to go to...
Posted by Mitch on January 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Vote Early And Often

First things first; I'm bummed that my entries in the Generalissimo's "Where in the Blog is Hugh's Book" photoshop contest didn't make the top ten finalists. But not very; I stink at Photoshop. Partly because I don't own Photoshop, or...
Posted by Mitch on January 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Fixed

Saint from the Fraters ran a correction for a mistake they ran. According to a Coleman email to Jim Geraghty:My "stepmother", Deborah Howell, worked at the Minneapolis Star when I worked at the Minneapolis Tribune. I never worked for the...
Posted by Mitch on January 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Dinner!

Sheila O'Malley published her fantasy dinner invite list; I was happy to see I'd wangled an invite. But I read it, in her section on...:THE BLOGGERS I am choosing these folks merely because it would be FIREWORKS if we all...
Posted by Mitch on January 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Wrong To Be Righted

Sheila O'Malley's "The Sheila Variations" is currently in second place in Blogmechanics' Best of Blogs Award voting. Take a moment and go vote to fix that, k?...
Posted by Mitch on January 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Big Time

La Shawn Barber finally graduated to the big-time; someone has put out an anti-La Shawn site! She doesn't link it, but it's here. It's not very good - the kind of logic and writing that would embarass a not-too-bright high...
Posted by Mitch on December 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Not really hockey blogging (yet)

Apparently, Mitch is a masochist, because he's invited me to pollute his blog while he's otherwise indisposed for the next few days (don't worry, he'll still be posting occasionally). For those 99.99% of you who haven't heard of me, I'm...
Posted by on December 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Day-Brightener

No matter how bad your day is, someone's got it worse. UPDATE: Although not as bad as it is for people who post these things without checking Snopes first: the final photo in the series is apparently doctored. I feel...
Posted by Mitch on December 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

What To Write About

Joe Gandelman, sitting in for Dean Esmay, wrote a piece the other day that I've been thinking a lot about lately....
Posted by Mitch on December 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

Canadian blogger Ken Finney of Cerdipity has drawn some fun cartoons of the Powerguys and Captain Ed this week. He has a lot of good stuff, actually - I love the Roger Simon bit. Check it out....
Posted by Mitch on December 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Give!

Two days to go in the Spirit of America Blogger Challenge. Please go to the Northern Alliance Team Page and give what you can. Jim Hake writes:On Thursday, Omar and Mohammed from Iraq the Model and Friends of Democracy, Kerry...
Posted by Mitch on December 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tell Us What You Really Think

Juan Cole attacked the bloggers from Iraq the Model. Jeff Jarvis attacks backThe man is pond scum. I know no other way to say it. This guy Cole (supported by your tax dollars in Michigan) decides that if he disagrees...
Posted by Mitch on December 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Red Zone

One of the best of the many wonderful interviews we've had on the NARN show is Steven Vincent, who turned his experiences of driving, solo (or with an Iraqi guide) around Iraq into Into The Red Zone, perhaps one of...
Posted by Mitch on December 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

CBS Vs. Blogs

The story's all over the place: on the virtual eve of the final Memogate report on CBS' malfeasance during the TANG memo controversy CBS' David Paul Kuhn released a story showing that two bloggers - John Lauck of DaschlevThune and...
Posted by Mitch on December 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Pod People

So I finally listened to a podcast today. Oliver Willis is doing one. People analogize podcasting to radio as blogging is to, say, newspapers. The analogy is close, but no cigar. Blogs, like newspaper columns, connect with readers through one...
Posted by Mitch on December 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Money Changes Everything

Business Week on the Business Of Blogging:Now advertisers are realizing there is a market emerging in the blogosphere. Already, the growth in regular online advertising, estimated to be about 35% this year, will far outpace the spending increases for any...
Posted by Mitch on December 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Strange Bedfellows, Part II

DC from Brainstorming noticed something about our competitors in the Blogger Challenge, the team from Castle Aaaaargh!:It's one thing to give your all to raise money for the troops and the people of Iraq, but the competition has degenerated from...
Posted by Mitch on December 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

'tis Michele's Season

Michele Catalano's 24 days of Xanax. Yes, it does strike close to home. Why are you asking?...
Posted by Mitch on December 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

MT Experts?

For some reason, my comment section is rejecting all incoming comments. Any MT gurus out there have any idea how I can fix it? If so - drop me a line at comments at the domain shotintthedark, then a dot...
Posted by Mitch on December 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Comment Spammers Caught

ST. PAUL (AP) - A group of "comment spammers" - entrepreneurs who leave "spam", or unsolicited advertising, in the comment sections of "blogs" - were gunned down in a mysterious shootout in Saint Paul today. Police are investigating, but as...
Posted by Mitch on December 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Muir's Return

Chris Muir's Day By Day returns today after a long hiatus due to the death of Muir's mother. Good to have you back, Chris....
Posted by Mitch on December 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Spirit of America

Remember - please give to Spirit Of America. The Northern Alliance and a bunch of our friends are in a competition with a bunch of other blogs to try to raise the most money, and the NAOB team is second...
Posted by Mitch on November 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Year of the Blog

World Magazine's Gene Edward Veith and Lynn Vincent take what may be the best look at blogs' achievements in the past year. Highlight, featuring the Commish:What bloggers did with the Swift Boat Veterans and the exposure of the Rathergate forgeries...
Posted by Mitch on November 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Cancer Benefit

Read this post, by Flash at Centrisity. It's a benefit for an acquaintance (Ron Rice) who's suffering from esophogeal cancer. It's well worth a read. Please do what you can. UPDATE: I bumped it forward to make sure everyone's read...
Posted by Mitch on November 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

They Don't Get It

Right after the election, liberal uberblogger Atrios ran this piece, "Really Bad Ideas That the Media Loves and Democrats Must Resist". It's worth looking at, just to see what the other side is thinking....
Posted by Mitch on November 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Intolerance

Michele Catalano says what I tried to, and does it faster:Just curious, but how do you think those lefty bloggers would feel if I spoke the same way about Muslims? Isn't the whole Jesusland concept just what they get on...
Posted by Mitch on November 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

The Ties That Bind

The day after the election, I linked to a piece by Charles Johnson declaring the big leftyblogs among the losers on election night. Chuck Olsen left a comment:Yeah... not only can you not blame lefty blogs, you can't blame blogs...
Posted by Mitch on November 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

The Pajama Meme

Peggy Noonan, in her post-election wrapup, keeps the meme alive (emphasis added):Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think...
Posted by Mitch on November 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Casualties of Ire

Charles Johnson notes the big losers last night: the big leftyblogs...:...who were tricked by someone into releasing deceptively skewed exit polls early yesterday—a report that was picked up by wire services and actually affected the stock market briefly. I’m speaking...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Some Good News

Day By Day returns on December 1. I'll be there....
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Search For Beef

The New Patriot is a local liberal group blog. They have a couple of writers worth reading. Chris Dykstra takes on Powerline....
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

New Arrival

Congrats to Tom Swift on the new rrival at the Swift house!...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Fact-Checking "Fact Check"

Since it vaulted into the stratosphere during the Veep debates, Factcheck.org has been invoked by any number of websites, bloggers and media figures as the end-all for discussions about political topics. An initial read through Factcheck looks like they lean...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

More Newspaper Newlyweds?

I know I'm stepping on the Fraters' turf here, but I wondered if this bit in Coleman's column today might be an oblique reference?:But tonight, Minnesota's TV clickers will be smoking and we will be multitasking like a woman on...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Lessons Learned

I'll be at the Undisclosed Location tonight, liveblogging the second debate. I learned a few things last week....
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Memoriam

Please keep your thoughts and prayers with Chris Muir and his family....
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Made My Day...

I see I got a trackback from Pejman Yousefzadeh this morning. That's a great way to kick off the day. Welcome, Pejmanesque readers!...
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

It's About Time

It's great to see longtime Northern Alliance contributor Folsom James Phillips is now blogging with the Infinite Monkeys. We in the NARN have been saying for a long time - literally years - that he should have his own blog....
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Watching the Watchmen

What a month it's been. Since bloggers made history (albeit with a small "h") at the national party conventions, Memogate has shone a spotlight on blogging, bloggers, and the contribution we can make to our nation's common discussion. I don't...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

I Said WHAT?

I'd like to say thanks again to Doug from Bogus Gold for his interview with me the other day. It's been linked a place or two. It was an interesting experience. Doug is an excellent interviewer. The interesting part is...
Posted by Mitch on September 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

The Goebbels Card

On Friday, "Carson", a commenter in a thread about incivility in politics today, took umbrage with my invocation of Joseph Goebbels' "Big Lie" statement. Carson, a local blogger, said:You know what they say when in the argument, someone references Hitler...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Doug Interviews

Doug from Bogus Gold did an interview with me on Saturday. He published it last night. We ended up talking for about an hour at Keegans...no, that's not really true. He asked questions, and I babbled on for an hour....
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

They Have a Theory. Which is Theirs.

The covert operations wing of the Northern Alliance, our colleagues at Spitbull, have been prowling the left wing of the blogosphere, and they've found something; some lefty blogs have a theory why the best right-wing blogs are getting so much...
Posted by Mitch on September 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Self-Correction: It Swings Both Ways

I blew this one. I was hardly alone, but oy, did I chunder. Earlier today, I ran a piece about a group of Kerry supporters ripping a Bush/Edwards sign from the hands of a little girl on her dad's shoulders....
Posted by Mitch on September 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Drummed Out

Via Jay Reding, we read Kevin Drum has declined to dive fully clothed into the fever swamp:I think it's time for everyone to give up on this. The memos are almost certainly fakes, they're sucking up media bandwidth that could...
Posted by Mitch on September 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Everybody's Doing It, Part II

Howard Fineman, via Malkin:Let me admit that I have written for the Internet in my pajamas.If you were with CBS today, seeing tens of thousands of amateur journalists piddling on the grave of your once-great network's credibility, that'd be bad....
Posted by Mitch on September 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Generalissimo!

Hugh Hewitt's producer Generalissimo Duane has a blog! On the one hand: Duane, like most producers, is a very sharp guy. For a new blog, it's a great read! And thanks for the kudos! On the other: Get permalinks! If...
Posted by Mitch on September 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Left Behind

We at the Northern Alliance have been asking for a long time - where are the good lefty bloggers in Minnesota? In fact, we made it an issue some time ago. A group of local leftybloggers have begun The New...
Posted by Mitch on September 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Blogging Lesson

People ask me: "Mitch - you're a pretty successful blogger. I can never seem to get mine over that 5 hit a day plateau. What's the secret? Well, I'll tell you. I woke up this morning, as usual, around 5:30ish....
Posted by Mitch on September 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

"T" is for "Blogs Beginning with T"

Almost done......
Posted by Mitch on September 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

"S" Is for "See? Almost got through the alphabet..."

Lots and lots of "S" blogs. So get to it!...
Posted by Mitch on September 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

"P" is for "P Comes Before R. Got It"

That'll teach me to blog at 3AM....
Posted by Mitch on September 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

"R" is for "Really - Check 'em Out"

The blogrollcall continues after a long weekend....
Posted by Mitch on September 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Christmas Purchasing Plans?

Chumley's got an idea for you....
Posted by Mitch on September 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

"O" is for "Oy, What Blogs"

The blogrollcall marches on!...
Posted by Mitch on September 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

'Nuff Said

Ed pretty well toasts Salon's hatchet job on the RNC Blog Patrol. Money 'graf:In short, Follman decided it would be more fun to take cheap shots at fifteen people who work hard to give their readers their personal take on...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

M is for More Blogs!

Having fun yet?...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

L is for "Love These Blogs"

Almost half done. Oy. I hope this is working....
Posted by Mitch on August 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

K is for "Kawabunga, These Blogs Are Cool"

Read on!...
Posted by Mitch on August 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Bear Facts

NZ Bear is publishing a Campaign Truth blog. Read the details....
Posted by Mitch on August 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

J is for "Jeepers, You Should Read Them"

Don't sit here - read about the blogs!...
Posted by Mitch on August 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

I is for "I Read These Guys Lots"

There is no "I" in team. But there's no "I" in "Blogroll", either. So let's just get to the blogs and quit trying to be cute....
Posted by Mitch on August 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

G is for "Great Scott, You Should Read These Blogs"

We're up to "G" in the blogroll. I'm envisioning the writer's cramp I'm going to get when I reach "S"....
Posted by Mitch on August 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

F is for For Crying Out Loud, Read These Blogs!

Today's blogroll is brought to you by the letter "F"....
Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

E is for Everyone should Read Them

Today's letter in my blogroll: "E"....
Posted by Mitch on August 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

D is for "Don't Miss"

Today's blogrollcall continues with the letter "D"....
Posted by Mitch on August 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

C is for "Crazy For These Blogs"

Lot's of "C"'s in the blogroll. I know; I wrote the entire piece for today. And then it disappeared. Boy, there are a lot of "C's" in my blogroll......
Posted by Mitch on August 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

B is for Blogolicious

Today? The "B" section of my blogrollcall....
Posted by Mitch on August 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Surplus Parts

Jeff Fecke at Blog of the Moderate Left serves up a capsule summary of the left's response to the Swifties' expose of John Kerry....
Posted by Mitch on August 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

A is for Always-Read

Steve Silver had a fun idea; go through the blogs on his blogroll in alphabetical order, and explain what it was that put them there. I figured it's a fine idea, if only because it gives me a chance to...
Posted by Mitch on August 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Blogs In Action

Jay Reding.com notes his presence this weekend at the Dakota Blog Conference, a gathering of bloggers from the Dakotas. We'll be hoping for a phone call from the Northern Alliance's own Rocket Man, the conference's keynote speaker. I wonder if...
Posted by Mitch on August 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wog Is Back...

...from spin-dry, and you need to read him....
Posted by Mitch on August 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Searching For A Good Leftyblog

Before I get into the actual post, let's be clear on one thing: being in the Northern Alliance is one of the great flukes of my life. I personally consider myself a very run-of-the-mill blogger who happens, from being in...
Posted by Mitch on August 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Wierd

I cleaned up a TON of spam comments today (I really need to figure out how to run MT Blacklist). Spam comments are frequently distributed by searching for keywords in posts; presumably these keywords are associated with a likely audience...
Posted by Mitch on August 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Postcards From The Echo Chamber, Part II

Lileks has this to say about the bloggers at the convention. I was disappointed in the contributions of bloggers at the convention. The best of the batch, natch, was the Matt Welch / Tim Blair blog at Reason, which had...
Posted by Mitch on August 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Postcards From The Echo Chamber

One of the criticisms of the bloggers at the Democrat convention was that the bloggers in attendance became the celebrities. There's something to that, although I think it was more or less inevitable, given that there was no real news...
Posted by Mitch on August 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Strange Pattern

I was going through my posts, cleaning up a few dozen spam comments. Now, spam is (more or less) advertising. And advertising goes (more or less) where it thinks it has a market. Now, I had a big surge of...
Posted by Mitch on July 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Josh "ua Micah" Marshall Loses His Mind

Josh "ua Micah" Marshall has officially slipped the surly bonds of credence, and slid into full raving moonbat-ism. In this case, it's about the capture of Al Quaeda leader Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, nabbed in Pakistan. "So apparently they couldn't come...
Posted by Mitch on July 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

If You're In The Greater NYC Area...

...you might want to check in on Red. I'm worried she hurt herself writing her latest enormous magnum opus on Saint Exupery. Or the Adamses. Or Cary Grant. Or... Well, anyway, just check in on her....
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Missing the Point

Jesse at Pandagon says about Commissioner Hugh "Ralphie" Hewitt:Hugh Hewitt...feel my wrath.How stupid of Democrats to call attention to the photos of Kerry's Dukakis-in-a-tank moment by complaining about them and giving Drudge a huge reason to run with the shots.Anyone...
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Atrios Unmasked

The identity of longtime overheated lefty gossipblogger Atrios has been revealed. His name is Duncan Black, and...:It turns out that Mr. Black works at Media Matters, the new David Brock media watchdog group, which is kind of interesting - he...
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Starblogger

Tom Webb is the Washington correspondent for the Pioneer Press. He has - no, strike that. The Pioneer Press has jumped on the blog bandwagon by shoehorning this old-school reporter into a pseudo-blog on the PiPress' online edition. The Fraters'...
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Peril? Profound? Perchance...?

Perhaps it's just that I'm halfway through working an all-nighter, and have have been listening to a long stretch of Emmylou Harris and Leonard Cohen (especially his "Joan of Arc" duet with Jennifer Warnes, which I should never, ever listen...
Posted by Mitch on July 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

One Step Up and Two Steps Back

Paul Demko at Live Nude Weblog (a wholly-owned City Pages blog) addresses the rather odd Northlands Trading spots that have been running on various talk radio stations:A curious advertisement has been running frequently on The Patriot (AM 1280) in recent...
Posted by Mitch on July 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Josh "ua Micah" Marshall Will Gladly Give You a Scoop Tuesday For A Hamburger Today

In the wake of his embarassing failure in covering the Plame/Wilson non-story, Zonitics (via the Monkeys) note that Josh "ua Micah" Marshall has a curious habit: he habitually writes reportorial checks that he can't cash....
Posted by Mitch on July 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Well...

Nobody does a long-awaited return to blogging like Rachel Lucas....
Posted by Mitch on July 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Left-Blogosphere Moderately Less Feckless

Fans of the "Big Quote/Little Sarcastic Sendoff" school of blogging can breathe easier - Jeff "Moderate Left" Fecke, while not remotely moderate, is at least breathing. His Blog of the Moderate Left is back after a ten-week hiatus (although it's...
Posted by Mitch on July 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Plain Story

As I said the other day, the real story behind thelate Plain Layne was, in its way, more interesting than the three-year tale itself. In retrospect, I should have kept my mouth shut before writing this piece the other day....
Posted by Mitch on June 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10)

The Good Left Blog?

I've been looking for a long time now, trying to find a lefty blog that just plain gets its facts straight. The contenders came and went in droves. For a while, I blogrolled Oliver Willis - but he developed a...
Posted by Mitch on June 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Plainly Surreal

The big snowball that was "Plain Layne" starts rolling downhill.

Posted by Mitch on June 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (142)

News Flash: There Are Conservative Bloggers in MN

I'm bugged now that I'll be out of the studio for the Northern Alliance show this weekend. The Powerline guys are being interviewed by a local documentary filmmaker about...well, conservative blogging in Minnesota. We're trying to cajole him and his...
Posted by Mitch on June 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Drastic Oversight

I just found today - Sean Hackbarth and longtime Shot In The Dark correspondent Shawn Sarazin not only have a blog, The American Mind, but they've been doing it for about a year longer than me. Since I just discovered...
Posted by Mitch on June 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

Separated At Death

Unintentionally hilarious leftyblogger Hesiod calls it quits... ...at almost precisely the same time Plain Layne vanished. Coincidence? I don't believe in coincidences anymore. Well, except that "Layne" could write......
Posted by Mitch on June 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Media Discovers Blogs: Part MCCLXXII

Time Magazine writes about bloggers and blogging, and recognizes its top five "blogs to watch"....
Posted by Mitch on June 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5)

Layna Walczaca!

"Plain Layne" - the only readable diaryblog out there - has been through many incarnations: diary, bi travelogue, cathartic smackdown, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Now perhaps its most confounding change: into a Polish 404 page. It's over my...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (34)

In Praise of the Fair Weather Fan

Back in 1987, sometime during the American League Championship Series, Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray - on their old "Monday Night Sportstalk" show - lambasted the immense, loud, boisterous crowds that suddenly began turning out to see the Twins. Although...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Woo Hoo!

I didn't notice this earlier in the week!...
Posted by Mitch on May 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Perspective

One of my favorite, albeit lesser-known, blogs is Jared Keller's Exultate Justi. His piece from the other day on a round of introspection he had over his blogging was interesting:I think I know why I've been a bit blogged-out, of...
Posted by Mitch on May 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Perils of Blogging at 5AM

Reader Mike points out two errors on my part....
Posted by Mitch on May 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Woo Hoo!

I'm Right Wing News' "Site of the Day" for today! Thanks, guys!...
Posted by Mitch on May 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Show Jay The Money

Jay Reding is sending bills to companies that spam his site, charging them for advertising on his space. $1000 per item. And he's found the law that backs him on it. We'll be following this. Especially since spam comments have...
Posted by Mitch on May 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Righteous Gentile

Arutz Sheva has an interview with Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs....
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Captains Quarters Adds an Executive Officer

Captain Ed over at Captain's Quarters has the most ubiquitous new blog out there; in business less than a year, he already gets more traffic than CBS, CNN and Persiankitty combined. I made that last bit up. But Ed definitely...
Posted by Mitch on May 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Challenge Yourself - and your Toadies

Yesterday, I ripped on Atrios' take on this article, about Pat Tillman's funeral. I termed the article a "hatchet piece". Was I hasty? Perhaps a bit, although on a fourth read I'm still not sure....
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

RTFC!

Much of the blogging left has wet themselves with joy. George Will dissed the president! They needed, of course, to read the whole thing - and, perhaps, so did Will....
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Opposition

The left's most overrated Blogger, "Atrios", has this to say about Pat Tillman on the occasion of his funeral:He's F**king Dead ...while introducing a hatchet piece from SFGate....
Posted by Mitch on May 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15)

State of Grace

From Sheila A-Stray's Redheaded Ramblings, a fascinating question:How would you define the word "grace"? Not "grace" as in: "Anna Pavlova was extremely graceful". Not that kind of grace. The OTHER kind. The intangible kind. How would you define it? (thanks,...
Posted by Mitch on May 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Spirit of America

Spirit of America is getting noticed in the big media....
Posted by Mitch on April 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Update

For the benefit of everyone that called on Saturday - Saint Paul from Fraters is under the weather.Zithromax and intensive bed rest, that’s the state of Saint Paul these days. Under normal circumstances that would be paradise. But this week...
Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

New To The Blogroll

New blog, Friends of Saddam, is devoted to covering UNSCAM. I'll be reading it regularly....
Posted by Mitch on April 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Ripped From The Headlines

No, it's not - it's fictional - but this faked interview with John Kerry is no less surreal than the real thing, these days....
Posted by Mitch on April 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Atrios Watch

There's a trend among left-wing blogs - lots of them have a naive faith in the writings of "Atrios", whose "Eschaton" is an anonyblog with immense traffic. Atrios seems to have perfected a style of blogging that would seem to...
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Welcome to MT

I've joined the 21st century and switched to Movable Type. Let me know if your browser barfs. UPDATE: Wow. Fast. No more of the "Wait a minute or two and see if Blogger barfed..." syndrome that I got so very...
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

Poetic Justice?

Poetic Justice? - ‘I feel nothing over the Kos' loss of advertising. He isn't in politics because of orders,or because he is there trying to help the people make America a better place. He are here to write blogs for...
Posted by Mitch on April 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry, Post Kos

Mark Steyn notes the problem for Kerry buried behind last week's Markos "Screw 'Em" Zuniga's outburst last week; trying to gauge exactly how far off the deep end the mainstream of the Democratic Party has slipped:In the immediate aftermath of...
Posted by Mitch on April 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Question for Kos

Question for Kos - Markos; You consider the four men killed in Fallujah "Mercenaries", because they are former soldiers who are using their lifetime of professional soldiering in a civilian career. They were hired by a private company, as they...
Posted by Mitch on April 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Finally

Finally - Listened to Hugh Hewitt last night, with Eugene Volokh and Powerline's John "Rocket Man" Hinderaker, talking about the Kos flap. One of the questions was "is there any outrage on the blogging left over Kos' stupidity?" Nobody could...
Posted by Mitch on April 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Compassion and Kos. Justice and Jay

Compassion and Kos. Justice and Jay - I could write a lot about "Kos"' vile, despicable post yesterday, essentially spitting on the graves of the four American civilian contractors who were murdered in Fallujah earlier this week. Let the people...
Posted by Mitch on April 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Writer's Blog

Writer's Blog - Lileks explains it this way:This being a column night – and it’s hard going, believe me; the well has been bone dry and I’ve my brain has been full of salted slugs all week – I have...
Posted by Mitch on March 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Hoax-Free Zone

Hoax-Free Zone - The Monkeys comment on the sloganeering wars that have erupted at Claremont McKenna University. The piece skewers one of the great signs of liberal higher-consciencemongering: The smug placard. Read it!...
Posted by Mitch on March 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Saving Senator Rudy

Saving Senator Rudy - Saint Paul from the Fraters has uncovered a massive injustice: the highest-ranking references to former Minnesota Senator Rudy Boschwitz visible on Google are a set of scabrous hatchet jobs put out by a stealth "progressive" front...
Posted by Mitch on March 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

A Request

A Request - If you catch me taking blogging as seriously as these people, please send help. The story? A bunch of liberal blogs got together to skew some elections. Elections for what? A blogosphere popularity contest, essentially. Some of...
Posted by Mitch on February 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Overly Broad Brush

Overly Broad Brush - Longtime "Shot" correspondent Dexter Van Zile writes about my post on Christopher Lydon, who may be hosting a political blog show at MPR:The man did some tremendous shows at WBUR. One of his shows on classical...
Posted by Mitch on February 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Firstest With The Mostest -

MPR - Johnny-come-latelies that they are - are horning in on the Northern Alliance's act, looking at Chris Lydon do do a national show about political blogs, according to the Boston Glob: "It's just possible that Chris Lydon's current gig...
Posted by Mitch on February 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Measure Of A Blog

Measure Of A Blog - I really enjoy doing this blog. Now, for most of the last few months, I've been measuring a "good day's work" on this blog by one metric; does my day's output get to the hit...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Suffering Fools

Ordinarily, I ignore Counterspin, a blog by an anonyblogger named "Hesiod". His stuff has all the spittle-flecked consiracy-mongering cachet that you'd expect to find on Democrats.com, but none of the writing talent [file under damnation by faint praise - Ed.]...
Posted by Mitch on February 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Dadublogger

Dadublogger - Last week, in a note about my piece on Nick Coleman's column about school closings, King from the SCSU Scholars quipped "I'm not going to be the only edublogger in the NA for much longer, at the rate...
Posted by Mitch on February 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kosgasm -

Look for the Daily Kos and sites that accept his word as gospel to get in a lather over this story:President George W. Bush's approval rating has slipped to 48 percent, the lowest level since February 2001, according to the...
Posted by Mitch on February 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Common?

I've heard this sort of thing from other Deaniacs lately - this one being "Bohemian Mama": "Even worse than losing progressive voters and activists like myself, what about all the conservatives and republicans that Dean brought into the fold. Folks...
Posted by Mitch on February 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Happy Anniversary To Me -

It took me a couple of glances at the calendar, but today, February 5, is this blog's second birthday. Reading Michelle at A Small Victory and her essay about her blog's third anniversary prompted me to remember the date. As...
Posted by Mitch on February 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Everybody's Doing It

Everybody's Doing It - It's the first ever "Shot In The Dark Poll" of public opinion! Remember - no wagering! Who is is the *last* person you'd trust with the Presidency? Carrot Top Howard "Mad How" Dean Pauly Shore George...
Posted by Mitch on January 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kossed

John at Freespeech.com notices an admirable trait in the Daily Kos: "Kos writes an excellent post about the fact that people change their mind over time. "And so on. The problem with those quotes is that they don't allow...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Trash Like Us

Alfred Fingulin - longtime dude Friday of Concealed Carry Reform Now - has a new blog, "Gunshow Trash". It's new, and it's getting rolling, but it'll be a great resource - especially with a new legislative season rolling around. I...
Posted by Mitch on January 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

For The Children

Others have descended on Dennis Perrin's riff on Lileks - the Commish and Fraters lay the smack down, and the Professor has a good synopsis of other links. Perrin says about Lileks:Here, Lileks was aping many of his warblogger brethren:Lileks?...
Posted by Mitch on January 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Shorter Jeff Fecke

The Shorter Jeff Fecke - "Kos has this report that the sky was grey in Iraq today [A report that, often as not, will prove false in coming weeks - Ed.]." "The Administration would never claim the sky was yellow."...
Posted by Mitch on December 31, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Fix

Hey! Plain Layne is back! Again! For like the third time this year!...
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Site of the Apocalypse?

Perhaps the most interesting feedback I've gotten on the redesign came from Plain Layne:Once upon a time life was comprised of three certainties -- death, taxes, and the unremittingly earth-toned palette of Shot in the Dark. Except it's not unremittingly...
Posted by Mitch on March 22, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Blacklist Continues

I'm posting the Blogosphere Blacklist on a separate page. Feel free to send me more entries! This Week on Shot in the Dark - We'll be doing Part II of the St. Paul School Board's alleged budget shenanigans. What did...
Posted by Mitch on November 24, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

He Who Laughs Last

As I've said many times in this space, and as virtually the entire blogosphere knows, James Lileks is a great writer, a humorist in the classical sense, capable of mixing poignance, rage, intelligence, love and bathos into a zany...
Posted by Mitch on November 22, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Texas Cage Match

Don't put Rachel Lucas in the same room as Molly Ivins. It won't be pretty, as this fisking shows. Ms. Lucas, by the way, is a former Minnesotan. Someday, I'm going to do a Three Degrees of Geographical Separation in...
Posted by Mitch on November 20, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

More Links

I have really come to enjoy Rachel Lewis' entire blog - especially her rather large collection of Second Amendment rants and screeds. She also seems to be the one who picked off some of Babs "Like Butta" Streisand's gaffes...
Posted by Mitch on November 16, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Call for Merriam Webster

Some new terms have entered the English language from the blogosphere in the past week or two:Paulapalooza : noun - an expression of grief that turns into a wholly inappropriate fiesta.Lutefisk - the point-by-point attack on a news article by...
Posted by Mitch on November 14, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)