Stolen shamelessly from Sheila O'Malley:

GRYFFINDOR:
[x] You've never done drugs.
[ ] You have a lot of friends.
[ ] You get along with everyone.
[ ] You love football.
[x] You love baseball.
[ ] You're into writing and art
[ ] One of your favourite music genre is rock.
[ ] You believe in "innocent until proven guilty" theory.
[ ] One of your favourite colors is red or gold.
[ ] Good grades at school.
[ ] One of the worst things you can do is lie.
[x] You plan on going to college.
TOTAL: 3

HUFFLEPUFF:
[ ]You're content with mostly everything in your life right now.
[ ] You laugh a lot.
[ ] You like to follow trends.
[ ] Politics suck.
[ ] You love to swim
[ ] Water polo is awesome.
[ ] Pink is one of your favourite colours.
[ ] Black is morbid & depressing.
[ ] You're an optimist.
[ ] You're very emotional.
[ ] You believe in going steady at a young age.
[ ] You haven't made fun of anyone this month.
[x] Loyalty is the MOST important thing in a relationship.
TOTAL: 1

RAVENCLAW:
[ ] You're depressed to a certain extent.
[x] You love to read.
[x] You appreciate theatre & arts.
[ ] Sports suck.
[ ] Hate is completely unneeded.
[x] Indie is one of your favourite genre of music.
[x] Every once in a while you have little anger outbursts.
[x] Lying is sometimes okay.
[x] Blue is one of your favourite colours.
[x] Knowledge is the key to power
[x] Sarcasm is the best kind of humour
[x] People should know what they're talking about before they talk.
TOTAL: 9

SLYTHERIN:
[x]There's at least one person you hate.
[ ] Basketball is a good sport.
[ ] Football is amazing.
[x] Black is a cool color.
[ ] You've lied about something serious
[x] You're a very deep person
[ ] You are not very loyal.
[ ] You like heavy metal.
[ ] You make school seem more important than it is.
[x] You're scared to grow up.
[x] Anger is one of your primary feelings.
[x] You have trust issues.
[ ] Guilty until proven innocent.
Total: 6

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Very interesting. The automated tests usually stick me with some degree of Hufflepuff, but this one didn't. I'm kind of amazed that I did so poorly with the House of Potter, but very well. At least I'm not marching in Voldemort's ranks, which never really seemed like all that good of a bargain to begin with. "Serve me and die!" "Oh yes, where do I sign up for that?"

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If you'll look over on the sidebar, you'll notice that there's a little bit of activity, namely a clock from ClockLink. This particular one was chosen because it reminds me of the clocks that I saw when I was a little kid, and hey, isn't adult life all about a journey back to childhood?

No? Oops.

All credit for finding this, and inspiring me to place one of my own, goes to Not Exactly Rocket Science, another Mu.Nu. joint.

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This weblog is first among all Google results for fficial&client=firefox-a">"officer wirtz", a fact that I discovered last night while perusing some site data. This is of course a reference to Genevieve O'Reilly, who also was the young Senator Mon Mothma in Revenge of the Sith. A page dedicated to Ms. O'Reilly appears here on the Star Wars Actors Database. Really, she's not a man; call her an actress.

A large percentage of my visits are not for my incisive commentary or snappy wit, but rather Ashley Judd in a Kentucky hockey jersey. And I don't even like the Wildcats.

Being the nice, customer-focused guy that I am, that link will keep being chummed for quite some time.

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OK, so here we go with a Tartan Day post. I couldn't dream up an ode to Stornoway, so I had to go with the other thing that I know a wee something (i.e. not much, but more than nothing) about, and that is liquor. If you're under the age of 21, stop reading this. more...

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This just in, albeit a couple days late: Service has been restored for Ith at Absinthe & Cookies.

I expect to see unit trains of cookie dough reefers and absinthe tankers rolling along any day now. (Go ahead, roll your eyes. It's after midnight, and I had to think of something vaguely rail related to stretch this post out.) Can't say that I've figured out how to comment over there, so this will have to do as my lone remark on it.

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A nicely configured Convair 990A screeching through the skies in Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2004.

In other news, I haven't watched a lick of La Pelosi; can't be bothered when the opportunity to read a book, drive a simulated passenger train, or fly a classic jetliner exists.

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Courtesy of the Superintendent of the Cold Spring Shops, I've received word of the Roundhouse Roundup. In the words of its organizer:

Come celebrate that innocent joy with the Roundhouse Roundup, a blog carnival for model train engineers of every kind--from Thomas and his wooden railroad to all the scales of not-toy railroads up to and including ride-on trains. All are invited to climb aboard! You may not come away from the Roundhouse looking like this, but then again, you may get inspired!

Since I've got only a handful of HO-scale railcars, I don't count as your average model railroader, but nonetheless I reckon I qualify. Why's that, you ask? 'cause I'm an avid fan of Microsoft's Train Simulator software, released back in 2001 or so. My railroad runs on electrons, if you will. I've got until tomorrow to figure out a post---probably roster shots of some of the queens of the electronic fleet---but I fully intend to participate in this one.

I'm not usually one for the blog carnival thing, mostly because I'm usually too self-conscious to submit. Luckily, this one seems to be perfect for me. Rip, you oughta get in on this one too.

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I went to the Llama Butchers and what did I see?

A meaty, wooly, and snippy Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas staring back at me. To wit, in period clothing and with era-appropriate livery. Actual quote: "I wonder if they've posted...oh my."

All this is in honor of the big four-oh for Steve-o, so happy birthday, many happy returns, may the cockatiel perched on your arm not peck you or otherwise defecate on your teal suit, etc., etc. I suppose now would be a good time to break out the Jan Hammer, wouldn't it?

phin tries to comfort Steve-o by suggesting that some day the 'lenin' suit might be back in. I figure it's one of those Freudian slips; those llamas have always seemed rather totalitarian. What with their drive to dominate Google by means of Mme. Theuriau and renting Roto-Tillers in San Antonio.

P.S. Some day I need to talk someone into helping me implement this theme-switching stuff; I had a couple on paper a while back that might've looked rather good.

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(No, this is not some abstract reference to your correspondent's prose, apt though it may be.)

I'm not entirely sure how this thing works, but after being inspired to it by a meaty, wooly & snippy blog-to-be-named-later, here it is:

I would have liked it better had the thing mentioned "Central" in there to make up "Penn Central", but we don't always get what we want. Of course, these T-shirts are going to be so famous that they choke out the Ugg boot and lots of other things. Perhaps the celebrity world will beat a path to my rural doorstep in search of them, yes?

"Sir, the former Mrs. Pitt has---"
"No. We're saving them for viable commercial entities, Higgin."
"Very good sir. Away with the riff-raff."

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Robbo at---where else?---Llama Butchers. Add a yip for the Carly Simon reference.

ADDENDUM: Ith and the Superintendent have also posted their cloud things.

I am uncomfortable saying "cloud things"; perhaps this is some latent reaction to V'ger and the cinematic misfire known as Star Trek: The Motion Picture?

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Interesting. Courtesy of the Llama Butchers, I was over at a place named 7 Deadly Sins, reading Sinner's take on the President's State of the Union speech. After I finished it, I saw a post dubbed "Sloth: Classic Battlestar". The permanent link doesn't work; make of it what you will. I hopped up to the top level and saw a little banner proclaiming the Sinner to be "Pro-Victory". I clicked on it, and wound up here.

As they say in the NFL, "After review, the tenets are agreed with. The group is joined, et cetera."

Well, perhaps they don't say that in the NFL, but you get where I'm going with this. If not, it's not for you. (Inspired by Penny Arcade, to be certain.)

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Stolen shamelessly from The Llama Butchers.

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1. Beatles, Stones or Beach Boys? I suppose the Beach Boys, because they've more or less hung it up, unlike Jagger and the surviving Beatles. I don't like any of these people.

2. Kant, Hegel, Marx? I'll take Hegel, 'cause I used to cheat my way through college bull sessions using his synthesis as a sledgehammer. Only in the academy could claiming purity of principle due to one's position as the thesis-maker (and subsquent noble granting of the occasional antithesis) get you anywhere. Steve was right: Kant is annoying. I hate idiot philosophers who think that the entire human experience fits neatly into a little treatise.

3. Cluedo, Monopoly, Scrabble? I'll take Monopoly, because where else can I buy the whole Pennsylvania Railroad? That is, if you land there before I do, I will stab you.

4. Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford? Toss-up between Newman and Redford. The latter made movies that I really enjoyed---The Natural and Sneakers, but I can't actually speak words condemning Paul Newman.

5. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart? As Ace Rothstein used to say, "I have no opinion on that."

6. Australia, Canada, New Zealand? Australia, with all thy faults! Thou hast given me Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, with Naomi Watts on the side. How could there be any other answer?

7. Groucho, Chico, Harpo? Eh, er...I claim youth and inexperience.

8. Morning, afternoon, evening? Evening. I hate mornings.

9. Bridge, Canasta, Poker? None of the above!

10. Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? I've got to go with O Brother, Where Art Thou?, easily. Now is you, or is you not, my constituents?

11. Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau? Hobbes, of course. There were points in college philosophy classes for those who took up his banner and defended it against the smug Randroids or the naive devotees of other philosophers. Yeah, I was real fun in college.

12. Cricket, football (soccer), rugby?. Why, football of course. D.C. United for life.

13. Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte? Er, I was busy examining my eyelids for structural cracks that day in AP English.

14. Parker, Gillespie, Monk? None; I've got better things to do with my musical tastes.

15. Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham? D.C. United, thank you.

16. Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld? I'll have to go with the Boston-centric sitcom, since that's the only one I really saw.

17. Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart? Sheila O'Malley will have my hide for this, but it's not Cary Grant. Although I liked Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe, I have to go with the man who was pilot-qualified in the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and the Boeing B-47 Stratojet: Jimmy Stewart.

18. France, Germany, Italy? I expected better from the Butchers, but I'll take France. Why? Well, the TGV Paris Sud-Est, Atlantique, and Reseau, their hand in the Concorde, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta and Melissa Theuriau, Joan of Arc, the Richeliu-class battleships, and several good-looking jet fighters. Plus, Paris.

19. Apple, orange, banana? Orange, please.

20. Statham, Tyson, Trueman? These appear to be cricket players, but I haven't the foggiest.

21. Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Rio Lobo? Never saw 'em.

22. Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman? Er, scores of Internet tests say 'Katharine Hepburn'. Enh, I suppose so, once I punctured both my eardrums so as not to hear that nails-on-a-chalkboard accent of hers.

23. Chinese, Indian, Thai? They all look like toxic waste to me. Curry powder ought to be considered something of a chemical weapon in and of itself.

24. Handel, Scarlatti, Vivaldi? Handel, without question. His Messiah is one of my favorite classical works.

25. Oasis, Radiohead, Blur? Blur, if only for the song used in trailers for Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and for the reason that Damon Albarn used to be linked to Elastica's Justine Frischmann. I've got no bloody use for the Gallagher brothers, and Radiohead can go soak its head.

26. Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Yes Minister? Never saw 'em. PBS wasn't a staple of my earlier years.

27. Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw? "I never forget a face, Mister....Chekhov." Well, that's not the Chekhov they're talking about, but one does what one can.

28. American football, baseball, basketball? What, is this some sort of test to be administered to the German infiltrator in Stalag Luft 17? The answer is baseball, without question. Followed eventually by college football. The NFL and the NBA may pleasantly rot, although I hope the Pats bring it home again.

29. FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton? Although I grind my teeth saying it, the "other" Roosevelt. He at least liked railroads, from what I understand.

30. Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky? Trotsky, without a doubt. Why? Because I was once told in college that Trotsky was the one who should have succeeded V.I. Lenin. This was not said because the speaker was pro-Communist; rather, it was said from a very Western position of interest. The man's angle was that Trotsky would have gotten to the helm of the USSR and promptly demanded worldwide revolution, acting towards it as best the Comintern could. Such actions would perhaps have gotten the attention of a lot of Western European governments (and perhaps ours as well) and thus warranted a decisive military response in the later 1920s.

Strangling Communism in its cradle circa 1927 or so, with Stalin exiled to Siberia beforehand, could only have been good for the world.

31. Paris, Rome, New York? Having been to all three, I'll go with Rome. St. Peter's is really hard to beat. Pick New York? I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee.

32. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck? Fitzgerald. Although I've only read The Great Gatsby, that was good enough. Uncle Ernie suffers from his lifestyle, thanks to accounts from Andy Rooney.

33. Blue, green, red? Yes, please. Pevler blue, dark green locomotive enamel, and Tuscan red. All look mighty fine on the flanks of diesel-electric or pure electric locomotives.

34. Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story? I'll go with My Fair Lady, mostly because of Julie Andrews. If not that, then Guys and Dolls. West Side Story probably was a harbinger of the flood of cultural rot and decay in the coming decade. Plus, it's annoying.

35. J.S. Mill, John Rawls, Robert Nozick? Punt. I don't know anything about the latter two, and I usually wanted to strangle Mill's corpse in college.

36. Armstrong, Ellington, Goodman? Er, Benny Goodman. But that's a stretch.

37. Ireland, Scotland, Wales (at rugby)? Since I don't know my ancestry, Erin go bragh.

38. The Sopranos, 24, Six Feet Under? Pass. Never actually watched any of 'em.

39. Friday, Saturday, Sunday? Saturday. College football, don't you know.

40. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear? Macbeth, 'cause it's creepy.

41. Fried, boiled, scrambled (eggs)? Scrambled, boy.

42. Paths of Glory, Cross of Iron, Saving Private Ryan? I've only seen the last one in that string, so I'll punt.

43. England, Australia, West Indies (at cricket)? England.

44. Chabrol, Godard, Truffaut? Huh?

45. Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks? None of the above; I don't like Bob Dylan.

46. Trains, planes, automobiles? Trains. Did you have to ask? Be it the Broadway Limited or the Powhatan Arrow, I can't imagine a better way to travel than by rail. Unless of course it's by a vessel of the White Star or Cunard lines, but that's a different issue.

47. North By Northwest, Psycho, Vertigo? Not a Hitch fan; don't know.

48. Third, Fourth, Fifth (Beethoven Piano Concerto)? Cultural ingrate here; don't know.

49. Coffee, tea, chocolate? Tea, Earl Grey, hot. Alternatively, tea, sweet.

50. Cardiff, Edinburgh, Dublin? Er, I don't know. All three?

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The Corner has moved to a much-easier-to-remember home. It's now at http://corner.nationalreview.com. You'll want to update your bookmarks.

I thought you guys were the home of conservatism on the web! I have been betrayed!

Bookmarks? Piffle. Bookmarks are so passé. I've got www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp hardwired into muscular memory. It's automatically typed by now, after years of doing it, and now they go and change things? Calumny!

Obligatory modified quote from The Empire Strikes Back:
"You're trying to build market share and now you go and pull this!"

Bah, I don't approve. I'd bet Edmund Burke, were he alive, would not either. Can we at least get some sort of redirect so that I don't have to go and learn anything else? Call it conservation of er, neurons. What would Russell Kirk say?

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You Are a Pundit Blogger!

Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed read by only a few.

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Gah, I need a good source of quizzes. Ever since Quizilla turned into "angsty pre-teen cartoon fiction" and a watering hole for the worst illiteracy seen since the Democratic Underground, quiz life has been hard.

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Your humble correspondent is pleasantly surprised to find his publication ensconced in the place once reserved for the city/empire of Trabzon. That being said, I'm wondering if I'm supposed to place any signficance in the particular location assigned to the publication; perhaps Comrade Commissar's trying to subtly send a message. Tee hee.

NB: It had occurred to me that Trabzon occupied a place perhaps similar to Gondor and Minas Tirith, holding back the evils of the foreign lands. Or perhaps not; I after all don't look a thing like Denethor and I don't have a palantir.

Much thanks to Comrade Commissar.

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Money quote: "[F]reewheeling, personal touch that gives her site its character and makes it a true blog."

I wholeheartedly agree. Plus, she actually uses the word "y'all" in typewritten text. That's classic. Congratulations, Miss Manning.

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Ith over at Absinthe & Cookies has announced the second edition of Tartan Day, a Scottish thing that she first aired in 2004. This time, she's doing a few administrative tweaks in order to deal with increased numbers and so forth; I anticipate greater operational efficiencies and the like.

See the 2005 organizational post here. Get in early and get yer haggis on.

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What exactly happened over at the Bull Moose Republicans? I usually enjoyed reading their site, especially since I was somewhat fond of TR, but now all that's gone. They may be trying to resurrect The Bully Pulpit, but perhaps not.

In any event, since I mentioned TR, I can't post this without a link to one of his top speeches: The Man in the Arena

It's hard to believe that 1910 is nearly a hundred years ago. Wow.

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Over on the right, in the "VIRGINIA-BASED PUBLICATIONS" category, you'll notice a new addition, Sic Semper Tyrannis. I was cued towards this site by John Behan's entry on the subject. "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (hereinafter "SST") is the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and it's Latin for "Thus always to tyrants". The "thus" part of it refers to eitehr death or overthrow, not that those would be mutually exclusive things. People outside our beloved Commonwealth have probably heard it quoted as the words of John Wilkes Booth, who reportedly cried it out shortly after having assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. Go figure, another actor sticking his nose in the political process for ill gain; I'm tempted to try and revoke his Virginia citizenship for that little stunt.

Two of the three authors at SST have chosen to use famous Virginians as their nom de cyber, with one using the name of "Lighthorse Harry". This was the nickname of Henry Lee, who earned it for his exploits in cavalry raids during the Revolutionary War. Lieutenant Colonel Lee also crafted the "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen" line about President Washington. Others may know him as the father of Virginia's most famous military man, Robert E. Lee.

The other fellow posts under the name of "Old Zach", which is short for Zachary Taylor. Mr. Taylor was born in Virginia and served as President of the United States from 1849 until 1850, dying in office.

Good luck to these new Virginia publications.

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Jonah Goldberg is ticked, in a professional way, about a deafening silence that seems to erupt whenever The Corner wins something in blog categories. See here, here.

One of his many correspondents sends the following missive, reprinted below in its entirety:

Why don't hardcore bloggers consider The Corner a
blog? Well, ya'll are missing a couple of key
elements that separate you from the rest of the
blogosphere: a blogroll and links within posts to
other blogs.

Beyond occasional links to Glenn Reynolds, The Corner
writers rarely connect with the rest of the
blogosphere. You have no one to blame but yourselves
for this reputation.

The Great Rooster of Africa (i.e. Goldberg) responds in a manner that I can't quite read. I get the sense that, while he receives (in the manner of actually reading them) correspondent's conclusions, he does not concur. He also notes that the writer's second point is incorrect, and I wholeheartedly concur. Yours truly was the receipt of a Corner-based link, over the "Yankee Kathy" thing. Ms. Lopez reached from the top of the highest mountain down into the lowest valley, and boosted my traffic considerably; for this I am eternally grateful.¹ (Promised subscription to come once the current one runs out and my finances stabilize after the Christmas holidays. Let's go Red Sox!)

At this point, I must say that I respectfully depart from Mr. Goldberg's position, and say that I essentially believe the critique offered by his anonymous correspondent. I do not say that the critique offers objective reasons for "hating" The Corner, but rather that it offers a glimpse at the probable mindset of the so-called "hardcore" bloggers. I generally eschew any sort of "hardcore" label, whether it be for fandom of railroading, combat flight simulation, or blogging. The latter is, of course, concurrent with my general disdain for the notion that blogging represents some sort of "New Journalism" that will change the world.

Why am I so apathetic about it? Primarily because I've heard it all before. Having read Hunter S. Thompson's correspondence from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, I pick up on a lot of riffs from then that I hear now in fevered discussions of "the power of the blogosphere". HST (and by extension, Tom Wolfe) figured Freak Power/New Journalism would sweep things away and we'd have a new alignment of media. Thirty-five to forty years later, the hated Washington Post still survives and Thompson writes columns for ESPN.

National Review (and by extension its internet presence) doesn't need the approval of bloggers. Indeed, the bloggers should hope for a favorable mention from NR/NRO every so often, a little like something from the Pope thrown to the masses in a far-away diocese. After all, without National Review, these ardent back-bench tyes in the blog field would be discussing whether we should bankrupt America in 2005 to ensure that the Great Society stayed enshrined and the New Deal ensconced as the greatest ideal of American political action, or if we should wait until 2006 to do it. Similarly, I got this sense of the near-worship of President Ronald Reagan amongst big-name blog "conservatives", and apparently this must qualify them as authentic conservatives. It bemuses me to remember that without NR and its influence in the 1960s, there would have been no Goldwater '64 ticket, and without Goldwater '64 there could have been no Reagan '76 or Reagan '80.

Put bluntly, NR and its organs are probably above criticism from a bunch of blogger-come-latelies whose idea of a Kirk as a leadership figure is James Tiberius, not Russell. I'm struck by the role reversal here: For a bunch of bloggers to slate NR over the lack of a blogroll or enough link reciprocity (which was wrong, anyways) appears to be an anonymous industrial shortline serving a steel plant telling the Pennsylvania Railroad that, "You don't count; you're not up to our standards." Once you stop laughing, it's absolutely ridiculous.

What is a blog? It is, to paraphrase the Clinton '92 message, "The content, stupid!" It's not a blogroll or whether a particular blog satisfies some arcane standard of link reciprocity, but whether there's good content or not. The Corner is an adjunct to a conservative opinion leader, and yet still manages to steal the thunder of the so-called pajamahadeen. I bet it's outright jealousy, cloaked in opprobrium over the lack of a blogroll. How dare National Review trespass upon the turf of these amateurs, and take awards that should be had because I have a blogroll and Sitemeter and I'm a member of some blogging alliances and I have blogads and I'm on a first-name basis with Glenn, Virginia, Hugh, and all the others!

I'll steal from an old endorsement I read in a George Will column: "National Review, with all thy faults!"² These "hardcore" bloggers would do well to remember that, "If they can see so far, it is because they stand upon the shoulders of a giant." That giant is National Review.

UPDATE: Various others have responded to this, but it's not a big deal yet, according to Technorati. TacJammer has a dissenting opinion (from mine, that is), as does Dust in the Light. Alas. more...

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