Blogworthies XXXIV

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ I love Jet Noise, Times Against Humanity, LeftNuts, Wizbang, Pavel Bloviates, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Curt Jester, Dappled Things, Captain's Quarters, JunkYardBlog, Lex Communis, JustOneMinute, The Mudville Gazette, Asymmetrical Information, David Frum's Diary, I love Jet Noise (again), Irish Elk, Hit & Run, The Volokh Conspiracy (again), The Belgravia Dispatch, HerbEly, and Cor ad cor loquitur.

Debate Recap @ I love Jet Noise (italics in original):

Well, everyone's talking about the debate. Who won? Whose debate was it to lose? How much does it matter? Everyone has an opinion. I'm sure you're all just dying to know what I think....

In Defense of Terri @ Times Against Humanity:

"Much has transpired in the past twenty four hours and it is moving to see those who value life acting with strength and certitude," Anthony Roberts observed on Jumping Without a Chute on September 24, the day after the Florida Supreme Court overturned Terri's law and thus sentenced Terri Schindler Schiavo to death. Times Against Humanity departs from our usual format of a half dozen of St. Blog's best to provide the following sample of those reactions, apologizing in advance to those we have inadvertently omitted (and asking that they be called to our attention for future reference.) ....

There's something about W... @ LeftNuts:

The President has a lesson for us....

Fact Checking the Boston Globe — in Advance @ Wizbang:

The blogosphere is abuzz that there might be an authoritative expert by the name of David E. Hailey, Jr., Ph.D. who might have proven the CBS documents are legit.

The Boston Globe is so excited they are getting ready to run with it.

I hope they do. Dr. Hailey is a liar, a fraud and a charlatan.

And I have the goods....

Wizbang Was Dead On In Its Story — Professor Changed His Analysis AFTER Being Trapped In a Lie @ Pavel Bloviates (capitalization in original):

.... I'm a lawyer. One of the many cool programs you get to use in my job is Deltaview, which tells you the differences between two documents. (We need to know this in the law business.)

And guess what Deltaview shows? That AFTER this a**hole excuse for a professor got the liberal media all in a tizzy, after wrapping his crap into something pretending to be scholarly analysis, and after getting trapped into one version of his nonsense, HE CHANGED HIS STORY....

Mainstream Media Ruled Unconstitutional @ The Volokh Conspiracy:

No, not really. But is it too much to ask that when the mainstream media reports on court decisions that they properly identify the law that is struck down and the Administration that is rebuked? Apparently it is, at least if the Thursday morning papers are any guide....

Norming Child Sex @ The Curt Jester:

Dawn Eden continues her dumpster diving into the moral decadence that is Planned Parenthood. So as they say, read the whole thing. I have some thoughts myself on this subject below....

What Do We Believe About Angels? @ Dappled Things:

Today [Sep. 29] is Michaelmas, the traditional Feast of St Michael the Archangel. And since the change of the calendar a few decades ago, today we also celebrate the other two archangels mentioned by name in the Bible, Sts Gabriel and Raphael.

Everybody seems to believe in angels, even people who aren't too sure about God. But we don't all believe the same things about them, it seems to me. If you watch some of those sugary angel shows on TV or read some of those dreadful books in the "spirituality" section of the local bookstore, you're liable to come away with some ideas that don't at all square with what we find in Scripture and Tradition.

Nick Coleman, Off His Meds @ Captain's Quarters:

A number of high-profile members of the Fourth Estate have gotten mighty testy about the blogosphere lately, writing poisoned-pen columns about how we have the audacity to write criticisms of professional journalists who write criticisms of everyone else....

Al Gore is Irrelevant. But I Must Fisk Him Anyway. @ JunkYardBlog:

Al Gore is giving debating advice to John Kerry, which, as the person on the listserv that sent me Gore's piece pointed out, is a bit like the Boston Red Sox dispensing advice on how to win the World Series. Nevertheless, Gore's advice is rather fiskable, as you'll soon see....

"When your adversary is making off-the-wall accusations about you, the chances are he's probably doing whatever he is accusing you of doing." @ Lex Communis:

That's my Fourth Ineluctable Truth in the practice of law. In other words, if your opponent is accusing you of, say, hiding documents, it's time to push for the documents he's hiding. After years of pondering why this heuristic principle is ineluctable, I've decided that it stems from the psychological tendency we have of "projecting" our intentional states onto others: other minds are a mystery, the only mind we have concrete knowledge of is our own, and therefore we "map" our intentional states onto other people's behaviors....

VPW — The Times Reviews The Plame Investigation @ JustOneMinute:

The NY Times takes a long look at the legal maneuverings of the reporters involved in the Valerie Plame investigation.

Below are some quick reactions. First, the Times points out that, unlike most desultory leak investigations, this one is being pursued with vigor, and tells us why: ....

Memo to Jimmy Carter @ Asymmetrical Information (special effect in original):

RE: Appearing to side with the UN against the US Making nasty accusations against your own country....

The Eyes of the Undefeated @ The Mudville Gazette:

The trees sag. I mentioned it to another guy in the truck on the way to the chow hall at another camp, he'd noticed it too....

That Times Article.... @ David Frum's Diary:

Matthew Klam’s NYT Magazine article on the blogosphere has triggered frenzied discussion in the blog world.

Conservative blogs have complained that the piece is liberal propaganda that unfairly ignores conservative bloggers.

Meanwhile, the left-wing blogs have counter-complained that the piece is establishment propaganda that outrageously belittles them!...

It's The Conspiracy, Stupid.... @ I love Jet Noise (ellipses and italics in original):

You know, I thought we'd seen the nadir of the Democratic Party when America knocked on the door of Al Gore's soul last May and found no one home.

But the slow descent into madness continues. It seems to be taking the form of a wallowing in paranoid conspiracy theories, mostly centered around their worries about whether their candidate measures up in the... err... 'manliness' department....

There are a lot of angry people out there.... @ Irish Elk:

.... Manhattan correspondent Steve M. finds on riding the elevator....

Get This Boy A Bib. He Needs His Mama. @ Hit & Run:

Yeah, that's David Broder in Sunday's Wash Post, auditioning for a lead in Grumpy Old Men III or, as this post's title suggests, going beserk like a discombobulated robot from Westworld.

The object of Broder's rage? All the arrayed forces of madness (read: profits, da Internet) that have driven real journalists (read: hacks such as Dan Rather and Howell Raines) to sucking even worse than the fake journalists they are desperately trying to imitate. Got that? if not, have another drink and read on, McDuff: ....

David Broder — First Heal Thyself @ The Volokh Conspiracy:

A David Broder column in today's Washington Post mourns the decline of journalistic standards and emphasis on accuracy in the modern media business. Given Broder's track record of sloppiness and bending the truth to score his own political points, however, his complaints seem somewhat misplaced....

MoDo is the Marionette @ The Belgravia Dispatch:

I used to respect MoDo's keen wit and fierce independent streak. But sadly, over the past couple of years, she's wholly swallowed a far-too-easy, breezy quasi-Mooreian narrative that has transformed her into a willing and increasingly shrill mouthpiece for anyone with a bone to pick with the Bush Administration. In this so-simple, dumbed-down world — Rummy and Cheney baby-sit kid Georgie, the neo-cons hijacked U.S. foreign policy and imposed a loony doctrine of pre-emption that has grossly unsettled a heretofore peaceful and idyllic international system, and the Administration is full of moronic Panglossians who think all is going smashingly swell in Mesopotamia....

The Rich Man, Lazarus & Groundhog Day @ HerbEly:

The gospel for the twenty sixth Sunday, Luke 16:1-19, blended with our Friday night film, Groundhog Day. Here is how....

Luther's Outrageous Assertions About Certain Biblical Books (Review of James Swan's Paper on Luther & the Canon) @ Cor ad cor loquitur:

This is a response to Reformed researcher and apologist James Swan's paper, "Luther's View of the Canon of Scripture"....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 10/02/04 08:56:53 AM
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