A true, blogospheric success story. Only in Texas.
"All told, some 10,000 to 15,000 new readers from around the world have found The Brazosport News all because of the lump on Dr. Perper’s head."
Writing from the underarm of the petrochemical industry. I kid you not.
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Also know as plagiarism, a tough word to spell, but an easy thing to do, so easy on the Web it’s a business. The MIA at the Transplantable Rose. If you see any Texas Scribbler out there with links to porn and/or phishing trips, let me know.
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Where "contempt for religion" and "insulting the president" just got student blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman four years behind bars. Funny that the chief liberal American bloggers, who sometimes echo the folks who contend this is just around the corner in Amerika, haven’t caught onto him yet.
Via Roger L. Simon.
Comparing the good Professor Reynolds with a left wing looney over the subject of assassination is a great way to be made to look unlettered and stupid.
I.e., don’t, as in do not. Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, did, trying to retrieve a sesame seed and:
"When I tried to pry off the key cap, the whole delicate underpinning scattered in a shower of miniscule parts…There were three tiny interlocking bits of plastic under the cap. Four nubbets on the underside of the cap were supposed to fit into microscopic openings at the ends of a rectangular pad that was held in place by two harness-arms. These in turn slotted into almost invisible mounting fixtures on the laptop chassis."
A true-life horror story at Fresh Bilge.
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Akaky, he of (as he puts it) the Vampire State, has raised another $5.75 for his pursuit of the Democrat presidential nomination, after he crosses the street to redeem the bottles at the grocery. But the MSM is still ignoring him and Daily Kos hasn’t even taken to sneering at his conservative views and demanding that he, like Joe Lieberman, be run out of the party. So he’s taken to slyly including the name of former Playmate Roberta Vasquez in his political posts, a naked (as it were) attempt to raise his hit count. That’s because he had previously noticed that his mentions of her had drawn an inordinate large number of search engine visitors.
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For Black History Month, Miriam at Miriam’s Ideas comes up with a thoughtful look at the first licensed African-American pilot, Bessie Coleman, a Texas native who barnstormed across the state.
"Every Memorial Day, black men and women aviators fly in formation over the grave of Bessie Coleman, dropping bouquests of flowers on the grave of the first black woman ever to earn a pilot’s license."
The manner of Coleman’s premature death is a reminder of how much things have changed since the open-cockpit, wooden spar and wire-and-cloth days of the 1920s.
UPDATE Transcript of good 2002 Voice of America feature on Coleman. And this longer, very detailed feature about her flying in Lockheed-Martin’s quarterly magazine Code One.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 