[NOTE: For those who may have missed my original tribute to Fred, please see this.] Here’s the link to Fred’s obituary, with links to other related pages. And here’s the text and a photo. Rest in peace, Fred: ROCHESTER – … Continue reading →
I’ve found a new blog that’s well worth taking a look at: Dissenting Justice. It’s written by Darren Lenard Hutchinson, an Ivy-educated law professor at American University. Hutchinson describes himself thusly: I am definitely a progressive, but I take pride … Continue reading →
Those of you who follow blogosphere scuttlebutt may already know that Pajamas Media has decided to dump its blogger ads. That means if I want to make up the bit of money I’ve received from that source for the last … Continue reading →
And here you thought this was the Year of the Ox? Well, it is. But far more important, it is the year of the neo-neocon and Tammy Bruce Co-Regency in the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva contest. Yes, that’s a mouthful. … Continue reading →
You can celebrate by voting once again for neo-neocon for Diva. Remember, one vote a day is allowed, until 5 PM EST today. I am very close to my stated goal of second place. Just think, you could be the … Continue reading →
Well, I’m a little late to the party, but here’s how you can vote for me for the honor of Grande Conservative Blogress Diva. Right now, my total is rather paltry, so please go over there and make sure I … Continue reading →
If so—or even if not—I am shamelessly promoting myself for grande conservative blogress diva 2009. Why not? You have until Thursday night at midnight to vote. It’s too late to vote early (I just found out about this). But you … Continue reading →
At some unspecified, unknown moment last night, my sitemeter reached the two million hit mark. It’s not a milestone I ever expected to reach when I began blogging—I would have been surprised to get a total of one thousand hits … Continue reading →
An Instalanche—that’s a link from blogger Glenn Reynolds, who’s otherwise known as Instapundit—can drive a huge amount of traffic to a blog. Glenn’s own blog traffic hovers somewhere in the vicinity of 300,000 hits a day (let me spell that … Continue reading →
Every now and then I decide to ban a commenter here. Sometimes it’s a no-brainer; the comment is so obscene and revolting it doesn’t see the public light of day for more than a few moments before I delete both … Continue reading →
…you find you’ve written about almost everything. Now that I’m somewhere around my third anniversary of active blogging (yikes! gadzooks! arghhh!) I have to say I never expected to still be doing this at this point. But I continue to … Continue reading →
One of the greatest pleasures of having a blog is viewing the sitemeter and noticing the broad geographic scope of the visitors. It’s a graphic demonstration of how the internet reaches around the globe, even with a moderate-sized blog such … Continue reading →