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Powerline—Time magazine’s Blog of the Year! Excellent choice; the Powerline team (along with LGF) led the way on Rathergate, a story perfectly crafted for blogger attention. Some links here and here to Dan coverage from Powerline and others.
One assumes Time’s Andrea Ripley wasn’t a Blog o’ the Year judge. Speaking of old slow media, consider the massive volume of news this year (Iraq, Afghanistan, elections everywhere, Olympics, Reagan, bombings in Spain, Abu Ghraib, Saddam in court, Yasser, Osama’s return, Boston winning something, etc, etc) and that this didn’t produce (in most cases) increased circulation or viewership. If the press couldn’t cash in on 2004, how will they cope during a slow year?
- The Powerline team must have been tempted to pose for that photo in their PJsPosted by Pig Head Sucker on 12/20 at 12:37 PM • permalink
- No Donnah, more like:
“More Footbal To Be Shown On Television”
“Power Tools To Become Cheaper”
“Shaving Cream And Razor Blades Set To Become Very Rare And Extremely Expensive”
“Beer To Become Stronger”
“Nuclear-Powered Chili Con Carne Invented In A Lab In Monterrey, Mexico”
“Doctors Discover That Helping Around The House Is Detrimental To Men’s Health”
“Extra Stinky Cigars Found To Extend Life-Spans Of Men”
“Scientists Discover That Prostate Cancer Can Be Prevented For Men If They Recieve Oral Sex On A Daily Basis”
Posted by David Crawford on 12/20 at 01:54 PM • permalink
- Hm.
“More Footbal(sic) To Be Shown On Television”
Lots of women actually like football and other sports. It’s true!
“Power Tools To Become Cheaper”
I wish. I need a cordless drill and one of those electric screwdrivers would be nice too.
“Shaving Cream And Razor Blades Set To Become Very Rare And Extremely Expensive”
I think this would bother men more than women. After all, few women shave their underarms and legs when they don’t need to (for example, when they are wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts).
“Beer To Become Stronger”
I prefer a good strong ale myself.
“Nuclear-Powered Chili Con Carne Invented In A Lab In Monterrey, Mexico”
I’m not sure how that would bother women.
“Doctors Discover That Helping Around The House Is Detrimental To Men’s Health”
Since men have been saying that for years this has lost its power to scare.
“Extra Stinky Cigars Found To Extend Life-Spans Of Men”
See above.
“Scientists Discover That Prostate Cancer Can Be Prevented For Men If They Recieve Oral Sex On A Daily Basis”
Again, see above.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 12/20 at 02:40 PM • permalink
- Having reached adulthood before the invention of Motrin, I can easily say that those guy-related headlines don’t even cause me minor anxiety compared to the thought of my uterus wringing itself out like a sponge and there being no Ibuprofen to block the pain signals.
Let Mr. Cracker eat nuclear chili and fart blue flames. I don’t care.
Just don’t ever take away my Motrin.
- My cramps are immune to all painkillers that aren’t opium-derived so I pretty much have no dog in that hunt.Posted by Andrea Harris on 12/20 at 04:02 PM • permalink
- “Since men have been saying that for years this has lost its power to scare.”
Of course that hasn’t stopped women from bitching and moaning about it forever.
Posted by David Crawford on 12/20 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- Powerline: what an outstanding choice for Blog of the Year. (LGF and Freerepublic close in behind)
I don’t think I ever been more fascinated than watching the Rathergate story unfold hour by hour.
Bolgging at it’s best, and a real lesson to the “old media” that they have to mend their ways.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 12/20 at 08:21 PM • permalink
- Of course that hasn’t stopped women from bitching and moaning about it forever.
You won’t hear me bitching and moaning. That’s because I am not so foolish as to trade in my peaceful single life for the dubious rewards of living with a man. I mean, I heard they can be handy around the house when you need something pounded into the wall with a hammer, but I can do that myself, or call maintenance.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 12/20 at 11:28 PM • permalink
- I bitched and moaned about it to co-workers Saturday. Mr. Cracker had been on vacation for a week and hadn’t managed to break out a vacuum cleaner. The house looked like a slaughterhouse with dog toy stuffed-animal body parts and cottony guts strewn about.
When I went home that day the house had been cleaned. I felt pretty ashamed for bad-mouthing the guy like that.
- Women of course are not interested in lagrangian libration points, which are points of stability in the combined gravity fields of the earth and moon and sun, where junk collects. But there’s an analog if you don’t dust for a decade or so, where giant dust balls form at points of habitually rising air, the dust following the horizontal negative flow divergence to that point and then staying behind as the air rises, a fascinating event unfolding that a woman would never tolerate even the beginning of. A man remains calm, even fascinated, in the presence of natural events that need explaining, in his view, and not fixing. Like huge balls of dust. “I wonder how big it will get.’’ A man looks forward to seeing in a couple of years more what will have happened. NASA may want to send a mission there, he thinks.
These giant dust balls can be broken up however by a dog chasing some object into an undisturbed area once in a while, which is their eventual fate. This is the analog of a large comet.
Men are unaffected by the story “Dust Balls, a New Menace? More at Eleven’’ but women are, and women are the product of the news businesses. These women (said to be 40% of women; not all, but it’s all you can get) are sold to advertisers. News busineses would like a more general audience, but there usually isn’t anything to attract a more general audience except for one-offs like Princess Di’s funeral or JFK Jr augering into the sea, where the comman man is tuning in to see if the entire world has gone crazy or if it’s just his wife. Women you can attract daily!
Blogs come and go on interest alone, both writer’s and readers’, and so needn’t pander to the biggest homogeneous audience available no matter how moronic.
Similarly men who are married sometimes clean up, with a view towards future favors. This is said to be the civilizing influence of women.
- You understood that?Posted by Andrea Harris on 12/21 at 04:21 AM • permalink
They will make stuff up that scares women. Same as always.