I think these search engine results for my blog for the last week do a good job of explaining why you shouldn’t rely on Google to assist you in spiritual matters. I’ve put a red check next to each religious search term.
I admit that including “jewish bankers” but not “abu nidal….” was a judgment call. The chia and Jonny Quest searches may have been cult-driven, but not to my knowledge.
Teabagging is, of course, currently our most holy sacrament. Never having been a Boy Scout, I missed out on all those tender bi-curious moments of childhood. Frankly, I’ve never really given that a second thought but given the choice between putting a communion wager in my mouth or a misshapen hairy scrotum-clad testicle . . . well, give me time because I’m still thinking.
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Having given it some thought, I think none of the above works best for me.
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If you missed the update, David Brauer linked to my PageRank post. The fun stuff is taking place down in the comments.
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John Cole picks up on a USA Today article on the Columbine shootings that essentially says all the instant analysis back in the day was dead wrong.
Across the board wrong.
So long as there are those who refuse to acknowledge that an armed society is a dangerous society, idiots with theories will always clog the news talk shows in real time.
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Kos says Franken won! Again!
Yes, this would make three times by my count. Once when Franken won the actual election, and again when the courts ruled he had won.
The first time Al Franken won? That would be in August of 2007 when Chris Bowers, Matt Stoller and Markos “Kos” Moulitsas decided to back Al Franken’s bid for the U.S. Senate. By winning that unannounced three-person primary Al Franken got a huge leg up on his competition.
I don’t think anything ever offended me as much as this did. I later learned that the decision was really Stoller and Bowers’, and that it wasn’t based on ANY knowledge of Minnesota politics, rather just on the fact that Bowers and Stoller really, really liked Al’s books.
Never again. If ANY bloggers decide to start making out-of-state endorsements this year for next year’s races, they’ll be getting the googlebomb treatment from me escalated right up to where anyone googling “tiny-penised freak” will almost certainly end up at their sites.
Via back channels I heard that most of the other A-list bloggers were appalled by that early Bowers-Stoller-Kos endorsement of Franken. I hope that was true, and I hope the A-listers have some kind of unspoken agreement that they’ll forevermore keep their fucking noses out of state races until each state’s Democrats have chosen their candidates.
Then they can hand out money like it was lawn clippings for all I care. Just don’t ever again come into Minnesota a year before the primary handing out money and endorsements. Just fucking DON’T.
Bowers has closed the comments on his Franken endorsement, so here’s what I just tried to post in his comments:
Just thought I’d stop in to see what you all think about Al Franken now. Thanks to your gaming our process, Al was denied the kind of bruising primary fight he needed to get in shape for Norm, and the result was a race so close we STILL HAVEN’T SEATED HIM.
Words can still ill express how angry this endorsement made me. Yes, Al would have gotten the nomination anyhow, but had he had to fight for it, he would have been a better candidate and we wouldn’t have had this recount.
Mr. Bowers, I am still waiting for your mea culpa. YOU stepped in way too early and you fucked up the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. A chimp could have beaten Norm Coleman but a chimp wouldn’t have had Al Franken’s baggage.
And a very special thank you to all the Kossacks not from Minnesota who had such virulently strong feelings about this race. If the netroots EVER pulls this shit again, I will go full time anti-netroots on my blog.
Do. Not. Interfere. With. State. Parties.
Wait for each state to pick their candidates, then give money to whomever you like. Just don’t interfere with the primary process.
btw, Minnesota IS a primary state. The grotesquely anti-democratic DFL endorsement convention is allowed by the DNC only because that endorsement is not binding. This just speaks to my earlier points, but can you imagine how irritating it is to be lectured on candidates by people who don’t even understand how your state selects its party nominees?
Endorse anyone you like in the state you live in, or any other state you are vested in (i.e., very knowledgeable about, preferably because you used to live there). Under no circumstances does any blogger have any business giving out early endorsments — let alone money — for candidates in states they’re not personally involved in already. To the absolute best of my knowledge Matt Stoller, Chris Bowers and Markos Moulitsas have no connections to Minnesota so maybe they should consider just shutting the fuck up about our 2010 races until after our 2010 September primary.
Just my 2¢ worth of which I’ve handed out several dollars worth to date. And if Chris Bowers ever sniffs around Minnesota before our primary again, I’ll be throwing pennies at him nonstop until he backs off.
More from Raw Story.
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Local bloggers have long shortened Gov. Pawlenty’s name to T-Paw. Now Dusty Trice suggests it should be T-Bag.
No arguments here.
TBogg says T-Bag might be on TV Wednesday (he spells it differently though).
& from John Cole:
Digby tries to make sense of it all.
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It could only be worse in Oregon.
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From Harper’s:
Horton on the Spain indicting the Bush Six
Silverstein on the only human activity that pays better than coke smuggling
The BBC on news anchors/commentators on both sides of the Atlantic
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Politico polled Americans to see which politicians we trust least. Sarah Palin won. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t have her fans.
Suddenly I have much more faith in America’s future.
See also Limbaugh vs. Goldberg, or Dixiehate meets Jewish self-loathing.
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Proof vs. assertion. CNN as usual made no distinction between the two.
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Dave from Alaska called today. He made it back safely.
I have a smidge of his goodwill offering left on the tray, but it won’t be there in the morning.
That I guarantee.
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