I haven’t had time since my vacation to pay much attention to the homegrown intellectual leaders of conservative blogdom, but decided to do a quick whip around for the stimulation I’ve been missing. And I discovered a most disturbing trend.
Political blogger Kady O’Malley is making the switch from Maclean’s magazine to CBC News.
O’Malley, who has covered federal politics for more than a decade, will be part of the CBC News team covering Ottawa and will blog for CBCNews.ca, beginning Oct. 26.
Take a wander through either of the two primary partisan blog aggregators, or the prominent partisan blogs themselves, and you’ll see a whole lot of Obama this and Obama that – - most of it commenting on matters of purely US domestic concern.
I can understand commentary on US foreign policy, trade, and action – they’re a big player on the world stage so their decisions and actions are bound to be of interest to us folk north of the border…. but why our great interest in their domestic matters?
She decided to play on the edge of the political blogosphere and got her itty bitty editorial knuckles rapped – and now, instead of taking the same sort of knocks the rest of us do, and learning something from them, she decides to pontificate at large about what she perceives to be our inferior bloggy short comings.
In which the MagnifiKath is shown, in fact, to have been truly lobotomized.
In the spirit of recent posts by Werner Patels, Dr. Roy and other intellectual luminaries, Canadians should know that their Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has publicly called for the murder of two bloggers who frequently criticize the politicies and actions of his government – Stageleft the Tattoed, and balbulican the insufferable.
In which we ponder how failed poets, publishers and pundits metamorphose into martyrs, heroically and histrionically defending rights that no-one denies them.
— and I’m still laughing
If Homer’s Odyssey Was Written On Twitter
I’m once again playing with layout, the urge to do so seems to come upon me every 18 months or so — apologies for what it may look like at any particular time today
An easy question about your idiosyncracies. What’s YOUR Bloggers’ Quirk?
Here’s a quick quiz to help me resolve a phenomenon that’s been puzzling me regarding the Free Speech Faux Martyr Brigade.
The Shmohawk is not only a great guy, but a very gifted journalist and writer (and trainer, and cook, and Hawaiian Shirt Collector, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.) He’s moving into a more personal style of blogging – if you haven’t been for a while, go visit.
Mr. Kathy Shaidle (née Blazing Cat Fur) has been busted, and the URQ bloggers appear to have reversed their position on outing bloggers who annoy them. What? URQ inconsistency? InconCEIvable!
Fiction is sometime truer than fact. We challenge you to capture the Inner Truth of your favourite bloggers in a one-paragraph, purely fictional mock-biography – a Ficki.
I’m willing to bet (if we’re honest about it) that it’s something that, to one degree or another, has happened to all of us at one point or another in our blogging careers — we’re trying to get a post out the door, we see a piece of information that we think supports an idea we have, or are trying to promote, and we link it without a further look, and we get bitten.
Designed by Gabfire slightly modified by stageleft