Month: July 2010

Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-07-23

A WTF moment for a reporter (caught on video) http://bit.ly/aHQc8V #
A comic of Basic Instructions on How to Argue Like a Reasonable Adult! http://bit.ly/aUAjli #
NASA was faced with a problem: How to get life insurance to the Apollo astronauts. http://bit.ly/9fwQEB #
The campaign against this mosque treats all Muslims as perpetrators..a terrible mistake, for moral & strategic reasons. http://bit.ly/9l74ns #
If you're capable of distinguishing b/t moderate & extremist Islam, a mosque 2 blocks f/Ground Zero is uncontroversial. http://bit.ly/aDJqNo #

The opening scene of Star Wars performed on a Manhattan subway car by an improv group. http://bit.ly/aPGbW0 #
A literary critique of World War II. Spot on… http://bit.ly/bsuxGG #

I couldn't hold in my laughing so I literally LOLed… http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html #
@EarlPdxPearl FYI: Levi didn't say 'untrue' statements as you quote him. Rather things that 'were not completely true' http://bit.ly/aAbomb in reply to EarlPdxPearl #
It frustrates me how few people seem to acknowledge the contours of the deficit/stimulus debate. http://bit.ly/9tg1JC #

The experience of not feeling the pressure to write 1 or 2 or 3 posts a days is quite liberating.

Yet I still feel compelled to write and comment and otherwise engage with political discussions and the news.

But I have not yet decided the best route. Can an irregularly updated blog generate enough traffic and engagement from others? Should I move to a more Instapundit-like format of short links with only the occasional column-length post? Can I manage to create some daily aggregator that provides a value not covered by Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet, The Slatest, Drudge, memeorandum, RealClearPolitics, or the New York Times’s Idea of the Day?

I don’t know yet. But I know I can’t hold off writing for much longer.

I’ll be tinkering with 2parse and other ideas over the summer, so don’t be surprised with some changes in format or irregular posting…

But we do have this incredibly dehumanizing discourse around people who’ve violated the immigration laws. http://bit.ly/cwDeR4 #
We don’t have the rhetoric of “illegals” to refer to people who drive illegally fast, or to jaywalkers…http://bit.ly/cwDeR4 #