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Ace-lanch

Posted on June 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Ace-lanch

Gracias to Ace of Spades HQ for linking to this picture of bluebonnets. My Sitemeter is recording what (for me) is an unusual amount of traffic. Only a few hundred or so, thus far, but that’s about twice what I normally see by this time of the day. Ace averages something like thirty-three thousand hits a day–he had more a million in May–so when he links to you you’re bound to notice it.

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Associated Mess

Posted on June 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Associated Mess

When I was a daily journalist I had to get used to Associated Press stealing a few paragraphs from my articles, slapping their own (frequently wrong) headline on the result and calling it journalism. It wasn’t their journalism. It really wasn’t mine, either, just parts of mine. But that was the way they did business. Still do, as far as I can tell, except now they’ve bought into (heck, they lead it sometimes) the Bush-bad, war-bad, economy-bad narratives. So I have to laugh when these frequently-inaccurate thieves threaten to sue over bloggers partially quoting from and linking to their stuff. This is probably the best solution: boycott ’em. This is a funny reply. This is a nice roundup. And this is worth thinking about. People in glass houses, etc.

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Why oil is $140 a barrel

Posted on June 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Why oil is $140 a barrel

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Texas, Louisiana & Mississippi have the only coasts where oil drilling is allowed–overlooking an estimated eighty-six billion barrels of oil. Enjoy your high gas prices, folks. Better sell the Volvo.

Via Rene’s Apple.

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Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Posted on May 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Afterall, he’s getting away with murder in Iraq, and the Bush administration and Congress ain’t doing nothin’, while Barry talks about a sit-down to understand Mahmoud’s pain.

UPDATE: So, when Bush does the only thing he ever does about this matter, i.e. talk, he manages to enrage Barry, Hilarity, Nancy, etc. For why? Because they won’t do anything, either, and don’t like to be reminded. Such unanimity.

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Click like the Web depends on it

Posted on May 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Click like the Web depends on it

It might, in terms of old media’s successful migration to the Internet, and new media’s survival. So click on the ads, the ones some popular software is designed to squelch, and buy something now and then. Because, for the most part, paid subscriptions don’t work, and so without the ads paying the way, poof, no more Web media.

Via Instapundit 

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Waiting to hear

Posted on May 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Waiting to hear

Some sort of tragedy appears to have befallen Instapundit’s family. All we can do is wait until he posts about it.

UPDATE: "Doesn’t appear to have been anything serious."

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Downtime

Posted on May 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Downtime

Case you tried to leave a message in the past twenty-four hours, or so, and found it impossible, it was because Yahoo’s hosting service had a system-wide problem going on. It seems to be fixed now.

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