Month: May 2009

I’m thinking of banning myself

I’ve promoted so many silly conspiracy theories over the years here. For example, that the War on Iraq was based on a lie. That elections were stolen by Republican dirty tricks. That Pakistan was a more dangerous country...

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The Logic of Banning

I note another banning controversy has erupted at Daily Kos. This time, it is over a mostly thoughtful diary by longtime user TocqueDeville (UserID: 8353) who must have signed up around the same I did many years ago....

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What the Traditional Media Doesn’t Get

The traditional media has been in a tizzy ever since the rise of the blogs. We’ve all heard the same complaints from them, over and over again, that we’re not “real journalists”, that we are parasites on...

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