Evening posts, my novel approach to blogging

I have been working on a book this summer, but until I put the blog on standby, I wasn’t making much progress so from now on, Norwegianity posts will upload in the evening, if at all. Paying customers and this book now own my morning hours and this blog will get sloppy seconds/thirds only.

This being my first stab at a novel, I am, of course, writing a trilogy. It took me all summer to develop a 2,500-word outline; since Wednesday that outline has grown to over 5,000 words. Simply put, I do my best writing/thinking in the morning. I don’t make money from this blog, so it’s now an evening project. Maybe some afternoon posts, but only if I’ve had a productive morning.

Frankly, I’d shut Norwegianity down entirely except the book project is very political, and I need to stay on top of political trends. So yes, I need to keep up with Michele Bachmann’s deer in the headlights moments, even Marcus’s “I’m not gay” lip mushing [TBogg], as well as her little victories * and not so little victories. She’ll be gone by next April, but in the meantime it will be fun watching her freak out over the fact that people do keep track of what she says. Likewise, I’m still tracking Phil fucking Gramm-endorsed Rick Perry’s acclamation-by-media, drought-ridden, evangelical-infested stroll to the nomination over Mitt’s Mormon still fucking means Mormon body and the wives his forebears rode in on. [scary Perry pix]

None of which excuses Obama, and yes, my novel will map the future of American politics by name. (Just because 1984 wasn’t as horrible as Orwell predicted doesn’t mean he still wasn’t right.) What we are in the middle of is not a case of both sides behaving like asses. [more (in which Digby accidentally beats the crap out of D.J. Tice's phony argument)] The equivalences between the parties is growing, but we’re not there yet, however hard both sides work at it, Obama by righting our side and saner Republicans by paying attention to the god-awful bottom line. [the more articles like this one you see, the faster moderate Republicans will flee their party]

Ever wonder what happened to August townhall meetings? Turns out congresscritters are still holding ‘em, but it’s the cons getting lambasted this time around so the media’s skipping this story. The sad part is that this noncoverage bubble would burst if just one talk show guest reamed their host over this, but that won’t happen and no one who counts reads lefty blogs so there goes another one down the ol’ memory hole.

Not all members of Congress are on vacation. Fully one-fifth of them are junketing in Israel where they get wined and dined and get to experience firsthand what it’s like to wipe your boots off on a Palestinian.

Spotty on Gov. Bridgefail’s weekend tumble into the Raccoon River

Ron Paul on abortion, proving what a sorry-assed Christianist excuse he is for a libertarian

Hunter on the clusterfucked side of Republicanism

It’s all about class, and the fact that one side has no class, just money

WINston on the recall

And more links from Digby (some pretty good ones, as a matter of fact)

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Newsiness:

Who exactly does Chuck Schumer think wants to blow up our power plants, and wouldn’t it be simpler to resolve our differences?

More U.S. troops killing themselves than are being killed by insurgents

Anders Behring Breivik, still smirking

Armando on Frederick Douglass

51% of Coloradans favor legalization

More on how humans are not wired for reading (but how we can get addicted to tanning)

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Etc.:

Hundreds of millions of dollars later, Yoko finally gives away some free John

Not sure if I linked to a Jonathan Turley account of this last week or the week before, but the case of the little old lady from Warroad failing a faulty drug test finally caught the Strib’s attention

Arguments for copyright (I often disagree with Monday Note, but they make their cases clearly and coherently)

Ted Nugent has, apparently, figured out that his audiences come as much for the politics as the music, and has again unleashed himself

Go Satan Go [video]

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International Humanist of the Year PZ Myer’s speech to the Humanists on biology and creationism [warning: on my Mac this stream took over my entire computer! it's an hour long and the video is for crap and the stream is very CPU clogging, but the sound is good and it's a good speech]

• Michele Bachmann
• Obama
• Rick Perry raped and murdered a man in 2004