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I've always loved that phrase. Much of the language that defines our country is amazingly elegant. This is one of those phrases. During the O.J. Simpson trial I had the...
Posted on July 28, 2006 12:01 AM
The wonderful thing about blogs is that you can say whatever you want. But as with any other freedom, you have to be willing to accept the responsibilities and consequences...
Posted on July 22, 2006 2:00 PM
You can tell when people on the last legs of a dying argument. They start asking really meaningless open questions hoping they'll mean something. Ace is at that point with...
Posted on July 21, 2006 6:43 PM
In his reply to Kevin's earlier post on the Greenwald nontroversy, Ace drove past Kevin's point so fast, he didn't even get the make and model much less a license...
Posted on July 21, 2006 12:11 AM
India has decided too much free speech is bad for Muslims so they banned 11 blogs including: • pajamaeditor.blogspot.com • exposingtheleft.blogspot.com • princesskimberly.blogspot.com • commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot • mypetjawa.mu.nu • thepirateco.us •...
Posted on July 19, 2006 9:38 PM
Over at Willisms today, I compare Hamas and Hezbollah with the Catholic Church, use words like "eschew" and "succor," and manage to avoid puns and fart jokes entirely. If that...
Posted on July 18, 2006 2:00 PM
As I've mentioned a few times, I've been doing "double duty" blogging of late. While keeping up my work here at Wizbang, I have been writing pieces for Willisms over...
Posted on July 17, 2006 2:00 PM
The recent discussion about how to handle the topic-hijacking trolls who occasionally (albiet more frequently) infest discussions around these parts brought out a lot of good opinions and information. But...
Posted on June 27, 2006 2:00 PM
Of late, we here at Wizbang have been attracting our share of detractors. Some are trolls, some are sincere critics, and some are just schmucks. (These are not mutually exclusive...
Posted on June 24, 2006 2:00 PM
...such as myself, who think of themselves as essayists. Four little words that set us to screaming in anguish. Bill Whittle is back. I'll be reading it tonight, when I'm...
Posted on June 18, 2006 3:00 PM
This weekend Apothegm Designs will start the torturous process remaking look of the Wizbang network of sites. As part of the preparation process I've been examining various portions of the...
Posted on June 8, 2006 12:32 AM
Yesterday, I wrote a rather derisive piece about a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling abouta lawsuit against a tobacco company. I based my commentary on the Boston Glob's coverage, and...
Posted on May 20, 2006 11:00 AM
I have said that, for all my other strengths, I have the social grace of a drunken, diarrhetic baboon. I am just atrocious at certain fundamantal social skills. For example,...
Posted on May 13, 2006 7:30 AM
Yesterday, Wizbang! was the target of a massive Distributed Denial Of Service attack (If I understand Kevin correctly, and that is not a given). We were flooded with comments coming...
Posted on May 12, 2006 11:00 AM
Ken McCracken is Will Franklin's loyal aide-de-camp over at Willisms.com, one of the finer blogs you might not be reading but should. In addition to his own postings, Ken also...
Posted on May 1, 2006 6:00 PM
8:30pm update: I just tried to access the same blogs that were affected by the Hosting Matters Hack Attack and they are all inaccessable - again. So far, I can't...
Posted on April 28, 2006 8:35 PM
A while ago, I took on the whole "chickenhawk" argument, shredding it as the dishonest, dishonorable tactic it is. Its transparency hasn't diminished its popularity among its advocates, however. A...
Posted on April 28, 2006 11:00 AM
The Washington Post is looking to hire two new bloggers, one from the right and one from the left. The Raw Story has the details: The paper's ombudsman, Deborah Howell,...
Posted on April 7, 2006 3:51 PM
I have a confession to make. I am a terrible procrastinator. No, that's not quite accurate. I am a fantastic procrastinator. I am absolutely amazing at procrastination, to avoiding matters...
Posted on March 28, 2006 11:00 AM
Bloggers are off the FEC hook: The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet. In...
Posted on March 27, 2006 9:43 PM
Updated Tomorrow the House votes on HR 1606, the Online Freedom of Speech Act. This bill is vital to the blogosphere and is supported by both the left and right....
Posted on March 15, 2006 2:30 PM
...but only a couple inches further along. OK, I'm pretty much set on doing this. I'd like to attend a Blogging Bash and meet other bloggers, readers, and whatnot face-to-face,...
Posted on March 14, 2006 5:00 AM
This morning, Wizbang! was down for several hours. Kevin very patiently explained the technical reasons for it, but I still didn't understand them. The important thing, though, was it was...
Posted on March 12, 2006 7:28 PM
One of my favorite techniques when I'm writing is what I call the "head-fake." It's where I write several lines or paragraphs all going in one direction and at the...
Posted on March 1, 2006 8:00 AM
OK, there is definite interest in a New Hampshire Blogging Bash. But the repeated opinion (by at least two people) is that Saturday the 18th is too danged soon. So...
Posted on February 11, 2006 2:00 PM
... as the vagaries of my day job require me to work Saturday evening, then Sunday morning -- meaning I'll be making my 25-mile commute twice, perhaps 3 times, in...
Posted on February 11, 2006 11:00 AM
Earlier this week, I discussed my ineptitude with language. Apparently, I was channeling my old writing teacher when I wrote that, because Dr. Zinfon's classic advice of "show, don't tell"...
Posted on February 11, 2006 5:00 AM
I've often commented that I have no life. It's often stated in jest, but there's a lot of truth in that. I need to get out more, spend a little...
Posted on February 8, 2006 11:00 AM
OK, here's the rest of the housekeeping stuff, where I brag about a few things and apologize for a lot more about some of the stuff I've written about in...
Posted on February 2, 2006 2:00 PM
I wrote a whole bunch of stuff yesterday, and several of them could stand a bit of updating. In most cases, it's corrections and apologies -- no great surprise there....
Posted on February 2, 2006 11:00 AM
Yesterday, I only put up two postings. One involved Hamas and the Palestinian elections, the other a librarian and a bomb threat to Brandeis College. It occurred to me that...
Posted on January 28, 2006 2:00 PM
I'm feeling a bit off recently. I've had some changes to my work schedule at the day job, and it's thrown off my circadians and my normal routine. I was...
Posted on January 28, 2006 8:00 AM
As announced below, Meryl Yourish won the Is Full Of Crap Blogathon 2005 Bingo contest, and the prizes are hers for the claiming. She also came closest to the "guess...
Posted on August 6, 2005 2:15 PM
Once again, it's time for Blogathon 2005, where dedicated bloggers pledge to spend 24 hours blogging for a good cause. Laurence Simon is blogging for the Cat Society of Israel,...
Posted on August 6, 2005 9:05 AM
Since Jay and I have been here, we've both had our share of inane commenters. Jay has banned quite a few of them but I do things different. If a...
Posted on August 3, 2005 11:28 AM
Frequent commenter "JmaR," alias "Dan," has just been banned from commenting on Wizbang. While it is true he has been a frequent pain in the butt, in the last couple...
Posted on August 1, 2005 8:00 PM
I'm sorry I haven't posted much since yesterday. I managed to mangle my left pinkie a bit. And while it's of absolutely to impairment to most activities, just ask any...
Posted on July 2, 2005 1:20 PM
I've been focusing a lot lately on the heavier issues, and I think I could use a break. Unless something pegs my Outrage-o-graph, I think I'll just post lighter, even...
Posted on June 22, 2005 5:47 AM
...it fell to earth I know not where." One the interesting things of finally having a published wizbangblog.com address is that people send me all sorts of interesting things. After...
Posted on June 21, 2005 2:00 PM
Normally, I am loath to revisit a posting in an attempt to clarify and explain just what I meant. It's a tenet of writing to me that pieces should stand...
Posted on June 21, 2005 6:29 AM
The Center for Individual Freedom will file comments criticizing the FEC's proposed rules. Reid Cox, General Counsel of the Center for Individual Freedom, sends this preview:Generally, despite what's been reported...
Posted on June 1, 2005 4:54 PM
If you've read through the Federal Election Commission Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding "public communication" you'll notice that they appear to be trying to lurch toward regulating political blogs and...
Posted on June 1, 2005 12:53 AM
Hotlinking images is bad. Hotlinking images is defined as using the graphic image of an external site in your own code. If you work off the assumption that the hotlinker...
Posted on May 21, 2005 11:15 PM
The Media Bloggers Association (of which Wizbang is a member) is sponsoring BlogNashville, a conference focused on blogging and journalism. The conference wraps up today, but you can get a...
Posted on May 7, 2005 4:09 PM
Just the other day, I wrote a piece about how I prefer to use profanities sparingly, saving them for when I really, really need them, and no other terms will...
Posted on April 27, 2005 8:30 PM
I have four pieces I desperately want to write about this morning. I have less than an hour before I have to leave for work. Expect a deluge of material...
Posted on April 11, 2005 7:09 AM
A new group blog is now up and running. It's called "The Conservative Brotherhood," and it's made up exclusively of conservative black writers. The countdown for David S. Anderson's head...
Posted on April 9, 2005 12:04 PM
Earlier this week, while discussing my recent vacation, I alluded to a "Top-Secret Meeting." Now it can be told just what that meeting entailed:...
Posted on April 8, 2005 6:00 AM
Wow. I have to admit I thought Paul was going a bit overboard on this whole evolution thing, but I never thought it would go this far. Even after I...
Posted on April 1, 2005 3:41 PM
It was one year ago today that Kevin stepped aside and entrusted the keys to this place to his stable of guest bloggers -- Paul, Timmer, Rodney Dill, Mog, Amanda,...
Posted on March 28, 2005 5:00 AM
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Elisha Cuthbert and boyfriend NHL defensman Dion Phaneuf soak up the sun in Maui this week....
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Actress Liv Tyler has split from British rocker Royston Langdon after five years of marriage, it was reported Thursday. Tyler, best known for her role as elf princess Arwen...
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http://www.mysinchew.com/node/11210?tid=37The Philippine President was recently asked to change her dietary habits. From AP- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declined an animal rights group's invitation to become a vegetarian to help...
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A source from within CNN says that Seacrest, who has filled in for his friend Larry King in the past, is involved in "serious negotiations" to take over "Larry...
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AMC has renewed "Breaking Bad" for a second season. The cable network ordered 13 new episodes of the series, which stars Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher who begins...
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Gawker got the scoop that Tricia Walsh-Smith, the psycho-eyed spurned ex-wife who made this video and this video about her sexually unpleasing Broadway mogul ex is said to be...
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The legendary country crooner that Billboard Magazine ranked the number one country artist of all time, Eddy Arnold, died at the age of 89 at 4:40 a.m. on Thursday...
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What are these people hiding? Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady. "You know, my husband and I have been married 28...
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