https://bonginoreport.com/

Edward Wagner

Or maybe it’s just traffic related.

Looks like a lot of folks dropped off checking in at about the same time.

As long as he was an alternate-view aggregator I was interested in looking in.
I don’t need him for a daily dose of Trump Derangement, though. It’s 24/7 everywhere else.

You had the impression 20 years ago that if those working in tech had any politics, it was a libertarian orientation. Nowadays, what you read about the major tech companies makes it seem as if they’re collecting pools of very loosely-wired adherents to the ideology of the deputy dean of students at a liberal arts college. Perhaps the shift is generational, but I cannot help thinking that people drawn to that trade have an understanding of their social world that is protean and responsive to stimuli in an odd way. My own impression of Johnson is that he’s a leftoid with an idiosyncratic antagonism to Muslim societies that you don’t commonly find on the left (whose religio-cultural antagonisms are commonly reserved for domestic evangelicals). For a modest run of years, the conflict with various antagonists abroad took precedence. Note Christopher Hitchens, and adherent of the red-haze left for most of his career.

“Right-Wing Flame War!”
https://web.archive.org/web/20100128064107/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html

For the “NY Times” the article was surprisingly even-handed. (The Times has changed a lot too since 2010.)

My take is that Johnson is basically not conservative and is quite thin-skinned. He is combative and likes to do things his way, to put it mildly.

If what’s been written of him is accurate, he’s a social and cultural oddity. As a youth, he apparently had no talents in any realm, just an odd hobby: he’s a news junkie. There is scant indication of any interest in ideas and policy. He made a name for himself quite by accident sending e-mail blasts which morphed into newsgroup postings which morphed into a website. He never owned a computer prior to 1994 and had had only desultory jobs in retail. He’s never married, has no children, and people who’ve worked for him for years on end say for attribution that they’re hardly acquainted with him as a person. He’s made this huge cash cow for himself with no more liberal education than you get in a suburban high school, with no business training, and with no technical training. Not clear as to where his servers are located. Word has it that he lives in Miami and that the leg work is now done by others (in Los Angeles?).

It has been long rumoured that Drudge is gay and it is likely that with a openly gay candidate in the form of Buttigieg running, Drudge is supporting him.

It’s a reasonable wager there’s something off about him. There’s no indication he has any views on any subject other than a liking for warm weather. He may find sodomy pleasurable, but he’s never elected to make a public point of it and has no previous history of having a demonstrable affinity for any known homosexual you might read about in the papers.

I still think Barr, or Durham, or somebody at DOJ / FBI could make a good name for themselves by doing more Clinton email investigation, including recommending indictments based on what Comey already publicly stated.

Won’t be until after election 2020, if ever.