Brian “Saint Paul” Ward writes over at Fraters:<\/p>\n
[A piece by Chad] reminds me that there was an all-star group of local, liberal bloggers who formed the web site “New Patriot” a few years ago. We covered it here<\/strong><\/a>. They promoted themselves at the time, among other ways, as “our answer to the Fraters dicks.”<\/em><\/p>\n
As the Fraters dicks still have questions demanding answers, let’s check in on them and see how things are going: New Patriot.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
Doh! Gone with the wind they are. I guess we’ll have to stand by for the New New Patriotism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Doh – he’s right.\u00a0 The New Pats have gone 404 on us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And in a sense that’s a shame.\u00a0 In a local leftyblogosphere crowded with knee-highs who toss chuzzlewitted snark on good days, and too-pathetic-to-bother defamations on bad ones (almost inevitably from the cover of cowardly anonymity), the New Pats were generally good writers, usually up for a rational argument (once you got past the “Fraters Dicks” bit) and, refreshingly, actual people rather than head-slappingly melodramatic handles fronting for 15-watt intellects.\u00a0 While I disagreed with them on most things, I respected the likes of Chris Dykstra, Luke Francl, Chuck Olsen and most of the rest of the contribs for being good thinkers, capable readible writers and responsible bloggers.<\/p>\n
The Elder Swings Away:<\/strong> Silly kids. They shouldn’t have underestimated the staying power of the Fraters dicks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Indeed; the part I do <\/em>like is taking that quick swerve down memory lane past some of the leftybloggers that, er, came out swinging at us over the years.<\/p>\n
Ragweed<\/a>?\u00a0 Hah.\u00a0 Stick a fork in him<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Kevin McKay<\/a>?\u00a0 Floating belly-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Daddypants (I can’t even find a link in my own archives)?\u00a0 Changed and tossed!<\/p>\n
I could go on – but you get the picture. We just keep swinging away.<\/p>\n
Anyway – be well, New Pats.\u00a0 Your scene could use y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brian “Saint Paul” Ward writes over at Fraters: [A piece by Chad] reminds me that there was an all-star group of local, liberal bloggers who formed the web site “New Patriot” a few years ago. We covered it here. They promoted themselves at the time, among other ways, as “our answer to the Fraters dicks.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}