posits that Canada's purpose is now to serve as a "warning" to the U.S., and recounts a charming encounter with an addled American:

Last weekend a woman who was purchasing artwork from me at the dog show began to ask about "what it was like to live in Canada". She confided that they had to sell their house while it was "still worth something" and leave before the country was completely destroyed. Her young son's skills made him very attractive to the military and there was no doubt he'd be drafted. She was enthusiastic about our health care system, and wanted to live in a "more socialist" country.

Sometimes I wonder that there may be some force .... (fate?) .... that places people like myself in just the right place, at just the right time. For a moment I felt a twinge of guilt in the realization that my Canadian citizenship had been twisted into cruel bait for a hapless little moonbat - like savory French cheese perched temptingly in a leg hold trap.

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Iowahawk unearths the episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? that featured Hunter S. Thompson as a special guest:

We were ten minutes south of San Clemente when the putrid green daisy walls of the van started closing in. I recall the fat four-eyed lesbian sweater girl saying something like "are you okay, Mr. Duke? We've got a mystery to solve..." when suddenly the gullet of the garish chartreuse steel beast began to spasm, as if a digestive track readying itself to vomit. I began clawing at my hamstrings and when I turned my head I was looking into the irridescent eyes of a grotesque animal screeching "Ruh Roh! Ruh Roh!" in a hoarse irritating dog-accented gibberish. That's when it things began to turn weird.

It gets better from there; don't miss this one.

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Yesterday's revelations on Ward Churchill had the effect of reversing my position on what should be done WRT him. Malkin has the best summary of the '03 transcripts. That goes beyond mere speech, in my opinion, and crosses over into the realm wherein one is, indeed, yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater. Toss him out.

Via Mikal the bookseller comes the latest wrinkle: Churchill has also been in the habit of selling his own personal artwork, which draws on existing art about/by Native Americans to the point of plagiarism: it sparked this discussion on Little Green Footballs. Also, Malkin has a few of the side-by-side comparisons here, with links to the Freepers' coverage on this issue.

I can't believe this bozo was being supported with public money. I knew some elements in academia were beyond accountability, but the degree to which that is the case shocks me.

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When Oakland Jeff posted a link to this site, I wasn't sure what to do with it—other than to stare at it in awe, and wonder, as usual, where does he find this stuff?

But I sent the link to my husband, who forwarded it to his best friend (also a veteran of the entertainment industry) with the subject line, "if studio executives wrote scripts."

Disclaimer: Not all studio executives are idiots, though many are. No studio executives were hurt in the writing of this post.

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Dr Rusty has had a an interview with Master Yoda, who gives forth on a variety of subjects. I would like to know what Yoda thinks of civility in Congress.

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When LMA asked me to guest blog, the prospect was a little daunting. How to connect? Hmmm. Well, one of the interesting things I have thought about recently, via MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, is the circles that we in the Blogosphere run in. We all tend to hit the big folks, Right Wing News, Powerline, Instapundit, Captain's Quarters, etc. But it is the small fry, Large Mammal and under, along with the readers, who really make the whole thing work. I hope everyone will indulge me a bit.

We all get some interesting overlap. For instance, I live in North Carolina, but I probably have about the same amount of NC bloggers on my roll as I do Bear Flag League folks. As well as from all over the country, and a few international.

That being said, let's take a look at one of the others Bear Flag League members, Byron from Slings and Arrows, who has an interesting excerpt from The Opinion Journal:

In his new role as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Dean has stressed that Democrats are stronger than Republicans on defense.

"Defense is a lot broader than swaggering around saying you're going to kick Saddam's butt," Dean said Thursday, drawing cheers from the crowd in this city that overwhelmingly voted Democratic last November.

It's not clear how this shows that "Democrats are stronger than Republicans on defense." After all, "swaggering around saying you're going to kick Saddam's butt" was precisely the policy of the last Democratic administration. The current Republican administration actually kicked his butt and even took down names. That strikes us as a pretty broad policy.

And from my NC blog buddy Ogre, we have a story about how Some Freedom Remains regarding the Christians who were arrested in Philly awhile ago for peacefully protesting.

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. . . discusses blogging with grace, insight, and that increasingly annoying sentence repetition that she should consider giving up on as a rhetorical device.

(Via Goldstein.)

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. . . from Iowahawk. Some of the characters sound familiar, but I just can't be sure . . .

It's about a town full of hormone-infused teenagers who find their burg overcome by a very large blob, um, blog.

Sobering tale.

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Horatio, than are dreamt of in your blogging stereotypes.

Via Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities.

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. . . has a new advertiser whose promos essentially amount to softcore porn. So I'll have to go back there after dinner and be scandalized all over again.

Wait: go through the Boi's site. That way he gets the credit when you click through. Upper right, not that you'll have trouble spotting it, and there are cute female models, too (there's a "just us girls" spinoff line). Something for everyone.

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1 Yeah, but trudging through the "boyz" part might be a bit much to ask to get to the cute female models.....

Posted by: Daniel at February 12, 2005 07:05 PM (XG5pe)

2 Hey. Have you seen them?

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 12, 2005 10:20 PM (RjyQ5)

3 The females? Are they that good? Maybe I should give it a shot then. But how am I going to explain it to the guy who fixes my PC? "No, you don't understand......but.......there's girls there, too.... uh.....why are you looking at me like that......."

Posted by: Daniel at February 13, 2005 08:39 AM (XG5pe)

4 The girlz don't show anywhere near as much skin as the boyz do. What's up with that?

Posted by: McGehee at February 13, 2005 11:57 AM (S504z)

5 You know, I didn't notice that. I'll have to go over there again to confirm what you're saying.

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 13, 2005 12:53 PM (RjyQ5)

6 Okay, point taken. But they are very pretty, and you do seem some slender female tummy. The boys, on the other hand, are being exploited. Yes. I fear exploitation of the boys. They should be counseled about this, preferably by an older woman who can, um, counsel them. From Hell, Attila

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 13, 2005 01:17 PM (RjyQ5)

7 So I'll have to go back there after dinner and be scandalized all over again. Priceless, PRICELESS line, that. Well, but I could use a break from the Eason Jordan scandal . . . hmm.

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Leopold Stotch thinks we should replace it with something a bit less lame, and is taking suggestions. I agree that it doesn't get dorkier than blogosphere, but no one at Outside the Beltway seems to be doing any better. Go have a shot at it, though: there's got to be something we can call this community/phenomenon that doesn't make us sound nerdier than we already are.

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In rhyme.

Guidelines for navigating this crazy old world of bloggy blogossitude.

Extra points if you can figure out exactly which poem he's parodying.

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Goldstein gives us "Nine OTHER Chest-Thumping Announcements North Korea is Set to Make This Week," including:

In 1975, a North Korean 4-year old named Jin-ho defeated both Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in a best of seven chess match. Jin-ho then returned to her familyÂ’s farm, where she helped plant rice and weave baskets.

So get on over there; it's good stuff.

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. . . when Goldstein's site is back up again? I'm Jonesing.

UPDATE: Back up, though I'm still have to endure several seconds of that "maintenance screen" before the real blog comes up on occasion. However, all's well that ends well.

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Describes the act of skimming my blog, trying to find updates on my life, or interesting observations. Or (one supposes) political essays that will make him mad. Or, whatever—something, anything!—that doesn't have to do with the blogging world.

"In joke, in joke, in joke [mimics the actions of fingers scrolling on a Mac laptop's touchpad]; fuck off, fuck off, fuck off."

Here's a thought: if you quit your job, sold your children, divorced your wife, burned your book manuscript, and just lived like a normal person, you could spend 8-12 hours a day online, and you'd get every single joke on the "blogosphere."

Some people just don't want to make any sacrifices. Always the easy options, ya know?

Start with Instapundit. He's a college prof too, and his entries are mercifully brief (unlike, say . . . mine).

"In jokes." Well, I never.

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Jeff-in-Oakland has another photoshop over at Beautiful Atrocities that suggests something about the homoerotic undertones in Islamist culture. But, you know—delicately.

(Oh, come on, boys and girls: we're talking about guys who shave each other's bodies. Anne Rice's vampires do a lot less.)

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Where children can be surprisingly mature, and supposed "adults" often act like kids.

"Stole an Instalanche"? WTF?

Should Austin ever start another blog in the future, I'll link to him right away, and put him on my blogroll.

And I don't expect to ever link Matt in my life. I most certainly won't ever link Jordan, whose behavior was egregious and unacceptable.

Remember the old saw about how you can judge a man's character by how he treats women? That comes from an earlier time, when women were bound by laws and conventions and less able to fend for themselves. It had to do with the notion that the way we treat those who are vulnerable shows who we are. It most certainly applies to the way any adult behaves toward the underaged.

I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS THROUGH PROTEIN WISDOM, RUN BY JEFF GOLDSTEIN. HIS WEB PAGE IS HERE. (Go. He's selling "Free Austin" T-shirts!)

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1 I'd go so far as to say you can still judge a man's character by how he treats women. or that could just be how I was raised.

Posted by: the Pirate at February 03, 2005 03:23 PM (SksyN)

2 Oh, I'm not so sure it never applies any more. I'm just extending the logic, here.

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 03, 2005 04:55 PM (RjyQ5)

3 As an absolute neophyte in this blog world, I'm not familiar with the specifics of crediting, etc. at issue here. But those specifics couldn't transcend the meanness behind that so-called grownup's reaction anyway. Shame! What truly dishonorable behavior to an intelligent and compassionate child! Shame!

Posted by: k at February 03, 2005 05:13 PM (6krEN)

4 Talk about taking yourself way to seriously. You stole my insta-lanche, sheesh. Does anybody have Glen Reynolds IP address? I am going to ban him from my site, I just don't need the aggravation.

Posted by: Pile On® at February 04, 2005 07:52 AM (bKw38)

5 Well, of course it isn't Glenn's fault.

Posted by: Attila Girl at February 04, 2005 03:48 PM (RjyQ5)

6 Well, on one hand, Matt Margolis got dragged into it by Jordan, who has take a huge, and vastly desrved, amount of shat about this. He has appologized for his demeanor and attitude towards Austin, as well as has Matt. Hopefully, Austin's Mom will let him start blogging again.

Posted by: William Teach at February 05, 2005 03:01 PM (HxpPK)

7 Well of course not Attila Girl, but then being banned from my site isn't exactly the end of the world.

Posted by: Pile On® at February 05, 2005 09:46 PM (Aa66R)

8 What I like best about this incident's "damage control" is Jeff Goldstein's "Free Austin" t-shirts. Now THAT's lemonade.

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. . . has filed another report.

No word yet on whether he's actually read Blog! yet.

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Within a few days. Pretty good, for a small-time blog.

And my traffic is up again, which probably means that I need to keep you guys entertained.

"Honey, would you feed the blog?" (Nope. It don't work like that.)

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. . . what Michael Moore was going to tackle next, there is the tantalizing possibility that it's the Blogosphere. I don't have the impression that he knows the lay of the land, or that he has any idea what he's up against.

So it would be really fun to watch, if indeed that were his plan. Sadly, I have my doubts.

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