Nov

13

Twitter Tools and the sideblog

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I have been playing around with a new WP plugin called Twitter Tools.  I am hoping to use it as an easy way to add content to the sideblog.  After some initial problems, I think I have worked out the kinks.

The basic idea is to use Twitter, Twit This, and Twitter Tools to easily add comments and interesting links to the sidebar without taking the time to post using the conventional WP admin panel.  These status updates and links will be posted automatically to the sideblog on the left.  The longer posts will remain in the center column.

So keep an eye on the left had sidebar for regularly updated links and commentary.

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Nov

10

Football and the inexplicable

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Brian from MGoBlog offers insight into football and a little humor in reacting to Michigan’s win over Minnesota:

Football, though… in football inexplicable things happen on a regular basis and they’re all gussied up to look like Flat Out Heart. You might think that, eventually, close observers would figure out this tendency and start saying things like “watch for the inexplicable thing!” but no, not really.

This is of some comfort to me in a season where the only thing more reliable than Michigan’s ineptitude is this blog’s ability to incorrectly forecast future events.

To be fair, if you had collected everyone on the planet who thought Nick Sheridan would lead Michigan to victory over a 7-2 team, no matter how fraudulent, and put them in a room that room would contain Nick Sheridan’s mother, that one guy on the message board with the annoying, unkillable optimism, and a bushman who speaks one of those clicky languages and erroneously believes there to be free sandwiches because of a mindboggling linguistic coincidence.

This train of thought could apply equally well to last night’s Steelers loss.

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Oct

30

Food for thought: Obama a radical incrementalist?

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Just came across this Jim Lindgren post at The Volokoh Conspiracy on Obama.  The conclusion is rather fascinating and thought provoking:

People should not confuse Obama’s personality with his political orientation: by personality, Obama is the most reasonable, thoughtful, moderate person on either national ticket. He is definitely NOT an ideologue. Yet by political orientation, Obama is the most liberal or progressive candidate to be a party nominee for president in at least a half century - probably ever. That explains why he is in essence a radical incrementalist.

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Oct

8

Quote of the Day: MGoBlog on UM Football

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Sad, but true:

Any attempt to list the full dossier of Michigan errors over the past few weeks would provoke a cascade of emotions from the reader starting with rage and ending with full-bore ennui. Along the way we’d touch grim sarcasm, depression, contempt, fatalism, resignation, dread, and a whole host of other things that in no way relate to happiness.

So let’s skip it and just say there have been a lot.

– Brian Cook, MGoBlog

Sep

5

Decisions, decisions

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OK, after much mucking about I finally decided what I am going to do with this blog.  I am not going to syndicate the content from my other blogs.

Instead, I am just going to use this as a more personal blog.  I will post about sports, family, culture, and whatever else strikes my fancy.

The last couple of posts from my other blogs, however, are now available on the top of the left sidebar.  Just in case you wonder what I am up to on the other sites.

So to clear things up:

Books = Collected Miscellany

Politics/election 2008 = Obama’s Con

Everything Else = this site

I am sure this has been helpful for the 20 visitors I get a day . . .

Aug

5

Introducing Obama’s Con

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I wanted to make you aware of a new blog:

Obama's Con

I know you are probably thinking that the last thing the world needs is another political blog. But it is my hope that the focus of this particular blog will be helpful (not to mention interesting).

Here is how I laid it out in the About page:

The premise behind this site is rather simple: Barack Obama is
running as a political messiah to hide the fact that he is a
conventional liberal Democrat with more charisma than experience.
His campaign is the ultimate triumph of style over substance; of
hype over accomplishment. It is a confidence game where he wins and
the country loses.

Obama is seeking to tempt voters from across the political
spectrum to vote for him not because they agree with his positions
but because he is a symbol onto which they can project their hopes
and dreams. He is tempting them to risk electing one of the most
liberal, and inexperienced, politicians in a generation just
because they are tired of the fallen nature of politics; tired of
conflict, confrontation and compromise.

But in the place of the hard work of real change he offers only
the mystical powers of his own celebrity image and personality. As
if the history of the country, nay the world, was leading up to
this moment. No matter how many big speeches he gives, however, he
can’t change the nature of our system of government or human
nature. Conflict will continue. Compromise will still be necessary.
Politics will remain the art of the possible. Obama wants you to
believe that he can change all of this; that he represents
something different.

This site is devoted to exposing this temptation as the sucker
bet that it is. Underneath Obama’s vague platitudes and charming
personality is a moribund liberalism that brings not “Hope and
Change” but stagnation and a loss of freedom. Despite his desperate
attempts to tact towards the center Obama supports abortion on
demand, tax increases not seen since the 1970’s, more government
regulation of the economy, and a foreign policy that seeks the
approval of citizens of the world rather than furtherance of
American national interests.

So whether you are conservative, liberal or somewhere in between
the goal here is the same: to get past the hype and media buzz to
focus on what kind of politician Obama really is and what his
election would really mean for our country.

The site has just gotten off the ground, but in the coming weeks I hope to produce enough quality content to make it one of your regular stops for election opinion and analysis.

As always, feedback and reactions appreciated whether via comments or email.

Jul

11

About this blog’s content

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I have decided to experiment with using software to import the blogs I post elsewhere into this blog.  So KH Dot Com will essentially be the place you can read everything I blog (or nearly everything).  That way you can read it all in one place.  If you want individualized content you can go to the individual blogs and read the niche content.

I am experimenting with this so bear with me as I see how it works.  Meanwhile I hope you enjoy reading.

May

15

RedState 3.0

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Mar

30

Blog Watch Three

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Blog Watch Three
What’s hot: Arafat; Easter ***Picks

Ben Domenech: Tune in Monday; ***Good Friday.

Louder Fenn: thoughts on writing; The Spare Midge: Modicum 12; posts I failed to write; Good Friday.

Mark Byron: Response to Fenn: Baptism, Salvation; Bible recovered; Lyrics available.

Junk Yard Blog:: asinine libertarians; fear the turtle!.

The Beauty of Gray: a darkness upon the land.

Live From The WTC: questions on 72 virgins; CAFE and the Middle East; Arafat’s Closets; Arafat’s BATNA ; UN resolution; Urban legends; Lessons from Krugman; Alterman’s list.

Next Right: Powell sends Arafat a message; Condi Boomlet Blog driven?; Hip Hop for Cuba; Slavery is not history.

Balloon Juice: Odd KY bill; Where’s Ken Layne?; nominee strategy.

Hokie Pundit:Domenech to be famous; Arafat go away; confederate poetry.

Unqualified Offereings:How Shall We…F!@# Off, My Lord?; Post Cartoonists; harvard contrarian; Can’t have everything in Iraq.

The circus is falling down on its knees
The big top is crumbling down
IT’s raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Where you should be no one’s around

I need a phone call.
I need a plane ride.
I need a sunburn.
I need a raincoat.