NTodd's Notes

More Meta Musings

So I've been wondering if maybe I should start my own blogger alliance that competes with the League and the other groups. But probably I'm too lazy.

ntodd

My Favorite Mole

I hate to admit it, but I'm loving our little mole, The Commissar. Here's his great post that blew the cover on some nefarious League tactics:

Memo to: League of Liberals (LOL) Central Committee
From: The Commissar

Re: Ecosystem Rankings

The Politburo authorizes me to extend its congratulations to the LOL on its highly successful advancement of Party members within the TTLB Ecosystem, maintained by the "Dumber Than the Average Bear" NZ Bear.

With your commendable and Revolutionary use of two tactics, you have propelled many LOL members to high ranking in the Ecosystem rankings, even while the Ecosystem is maintained by that reactionary wingnut, NZ Bear.

Go read the whole thing, if only for the entertainment value of his writing and not the actual controversy.

ntodd

Still Rethinking The Notes Page

What is the purpose of this page? It doesn't have a clear role, in contrast to my Haiku, Rummy Poetry, and Photos pages. It was originally intended for some offline notes about my main page, but I can't seem to get the permalinking to work properly here. Is it because there's not enough content here? Or is it the template? Dunno.

I find I'm just using it mostly to archive my blogaround posts. I guess it has the benefit of keeping the links "alive" longer than on DM, but that seems to be hardly worth the effort. And if by chance somebody does visit this site first, and sees no compelling content, they'll have no reason to click through to DM (which does happen with the other content-rich pages).

No harm in keeping this around for now, but I might delete the site meter code (although that simply freezes the traffic count on TTLB), or maybe delete the site altogether. Or maybe I'll just clean it up a bit and use it differently. Or maybe I'll travel to the moon and mine "genesis rock".

ntodd

Argh!

Silly, silly mess over at TTLB re: traffic rankings. I'm not entirely convinced by Barry's response at Savage Cruel Bigots.

I'll not air this stuff any more on my main blog page. Anywayz, hopefully this will all blow over soon. Geesh.

ntodd

Blogaround

Here are a few places to go today while you anxiously await my throwing off the shackles of lameness:

* BBWW discusses the brewing culture war, brought to you by Pat Puke-anan. I think some of this is about Mustang Bobby's quest for a toaster.

* The Modulator points us to some photos of NYC and San Fran. An interesting look at the mundane.

* The Mahablog shares some thoughts on Bush's heroism. Sigh, Bush is so super and heroic. Not.

* The Poison Kitchen tells the story of Canadian Thanksgiving, which apparently has nothing to do with ours. When are we just going to invade and stop the godless commies from subverting all that is sacred?

* The Politburo Diktat ignores one of the most influential blogs in the universe (mine) in creating a world map of the blogowhatever. The outrageous omission has been duly noted, and this insult will never be forgotten.

My own incredibly important blogging to commence sometime this century.

ntodd

TTLB Votes

Just wanted to bring to your attention 2 new votes for the TTLB showcase (see the right nav). I've also started adding a date to them, for no real reason 'cept I wanted to have dates so I can more easily verify that my votes have been cast and counted.

ntodd

Thanksgiving Eve Blogaround

Go here:

* Officially Unofficial wonders "Who are the Enemies of Freedom?"

* Shock and Awe gives us tips on how to ID Christian Moderates, with a little help from Daniel Pipe.

* OSP guest blogger Andrew Sabl tells us why he likes Clark.

* Bark Bark Woof Woof muses about PC PCs.

* Opinions You Should Have issues yet another wake-up call to the Dems.

* The Poison Kitchen is doing a frighteningly good job channeling the Teletubbies.

* Folkbum needs sympathy as a family member has met the Black Rabbit of Inle.

ntodd

Late Blogaround

Read these:

* Lawrence of Cyberia answers Why Do They Hate Us?

* MercuryX23 says "WHA!!?!?!?" when confronted with the president's policy of pre-emptive [sic] self-defense.

* Body and Soul talks about The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger. BTW, he's not honorable.

* Blah3 is a bit skeptical about the Pentagon's 'new' story about the 101st soldiers who weren't (or were) mutilated by irate Iraqis.

* The Sesquipedalian brings us some Potentially Good News about the economy.

* Cup O' Joe poses the question "To Fight Or Not To Fight?" as a result of some e-mail exchanges we've had on a League of Liberals mailing list.

* Raed is angry with our soldiers, and wonders where Salam is.

ntodd

Quick Blogaround

I'm still being lame and not linking to enough good posts, but let me quickly try to salve my guilt a bit with these suggestions:

* How to Save the World nails it with TERRORISM IS A REACTION, NOT AN ACTION. This will be going into my Collection of Solutions for Bloggers Parliament.

* In honor of Daschle's appearance yesterday on MTP, and his support of the bogus energy bill, I bring your attention to this post from Opinions That You Should Have on Saturday: Daschle To Filibuster Self. Someday we'll have real oppo leadership, but not while Tom's in charge.

* The Fulcrum tells us about Freedom of the Press - Baghdad Style.

* Notes on the Atrocities ranks the Democratic candidates and provides some interesting analysis.

* Pen-Elayne has some cat pics, er...some concerns about the new acting Iraqi ambassador to the US.

* Shock and Awe reads the email newsletter from the National Federation of Republican Assemblies so we don't have to.

* Pacific Views discusses our fading freedoms.

ntodd

Rethinking The Notes

For whatever reason, the permalinks here seem permanently bloggered, so I don't know if I'm going to keep this annex running. If I do, it might be with a new template, or maybe I'll just use this site differently. Dunno.

ntodd

Blogaround

* MercuryX23 and Happy Dog Pound Fuzzy Slipper Day muse about the GOP's latest attack ad.

* My new overlord, Ayn Clouter rants about Old Europe.

* Shock and Awe observes that CNN apparently didn't get the memo: JFK was shot 40 years ago.

* Pacific Views reminds us that Dick "The World Fucking Sucks So Let's Destroy It" Cheney is really the one in charge of our foreign policy. Like I don't already have trouble sleeping at night.

* Pen-Elayne has, um...well I guess it's more feline exploitation curiosa. With hats.

ntodd

Lame

I've been so lame, I haven't been updating this blog, either. At least I finally have my TTLB vote posted for this week. More to come...

ntodd

Blogroll Sampler

From the various DM blogrolls, a little sampler:

* BBWW takes us on a trip back to 1968. Or maybe not.

* Rubber Hose tells us about some important changes to Federal labor law in the the Kennedy-Miller bill.

* Taking a play from the ever successful DM playbook, Happy Furry Puppy Story Time is running a caption contest. Winner apparently gets a puppy. Geesh, some people will do anything for a little attention (see below).

* Body and Soul civilly discusses civility. You know, the shit that conservatives want us to have, but refuse to engage in themselves?

* AF&0 delivers the real speech Bush should've given on Veteran's Day.

*Cosmic Iguana noticed that Der Gropenator is following Bush's plan to spend more time on vacation than governing.

* Democratic Veteran has a suggestion for some weekend fun at Andrew Sullivan's expense.

ntodd

Beatnik Joe Caption Contest Reminder

Don't forget to enter the latest caption contest. Deadline Sunday. Prizes, prizes, prizes!

ntodd

Friday Blogging With Your Friendly Neighborhood League Of Liberals

* ink from the squid tells us about corporate welfare

* LEFT is RIGHT warns us of O'Lielly's political aspirations.

* Pen-Elayne points us to some interesting and some unnerving science news.

* Pharyngula tells us about some gross eating habits. Okay, maybe I'm being culture-centric here, but yech. Not my cuppa, know what I mean?

* Our friend The Commissar over at The Politburo Diktat clues us into the Lies from New York Trotskyite Times. Long live the Revolution!

ntodd

LoL Links For Saturday

Shamlessly stolen from a fellow League member...

League Out Loud Saturday: by Pen-Elayne

One of the unspoken "obligations" of being a member of the League of Liberals is the expectation or hope that we'll write about what we like in each other's blogs from time to time. The situation with my work computer and my job in general has precluded me from doing this during the week, but I'm going to try to start a LoL Saturday and see if I can't give you a bit of a round-up each week. So, alphabetically by surname:

Barry Bozeman at Rush Limbaughtomy isn't happy that Katherine Harris is considering a Senate run, but I wish he hadn't referred to her as "butt ugly." After all, there's no need to focus on her looks (something done overwhelmingly with women in the public eye over the years) when calling her a "Bush paramour" (i.e., mentioning her personal-is-political connections) does the trick much better.

Len Cleavelin at Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener takes a look at the "SUV loophole" in this year's tax incentive for new equipment orders.

Natalie Davis at All Facts & Opinions examines the Coalition of the Killing.

Jim Elve at Officially Unofficial tests himself using the Political Compass.

Jo Fish at Democratic Veteran makes note of a correction to last year's propaganda about how well Austin High School did last year.

Barbara O'Brien at The Mahablog does a great job parsing Bush's NED speech from Thursday. I actually don't think the speech is "related to 'Bring It On'" as much as to the Cabal's overreaching purpose since before Bush took office. My favorite line: "Never mind that the Iraq War resembles the Berlin Airlift about as much as Bill O'Reilly resembles Brad Pitt."

N. Todd Pritsky at Dohiyi Mir does some Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum) too!

Maru Soze at WTF Is It Now?? is disgusted (so am I) that Bill Frist yesterday froze the Senate probe of prewar Iraq data because he was pissed about a leaked memo that outlined possible Democratic plans to extend the investigation to include the White House and executive branch. You know, the people who started the war.

Patrick Taylor at The Poison Kitchen offers some good tips on increasing traffic from Google.

Joe Vecchio at Cup O' Joe wonders about the vagaries of blogger begging.

And among the first-name-onlys and pseudonymous:

Annthrax Coultergeist at Treason Online goes to the movies.

Dawn at Clareified extols the virtues of blogs as open public spaces. Although I gotta disagree with her friend about movie theaters, at which I generally prefer audiences to be quiet.

Gunther at The Gunther Concept suggests taking action on the anti-abortion movement's harrassment stalling construction of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Austin.

Indigo Ocean examines Maui in mythology. I want to know more about what Hina did when he cut off her sacred tresses; sounds like that might make for a much better story.

Jeff at Speedkill tries to cheer himself up with good news.

Jesse at The Gotham City 13 proposes a new docudrama about FDR.

Major Barbara at Arms And The Man takes a look at the corruption problems inherent in the US' "emerging strategic partnership with Vladimir Putin's Russia." Corruption in Russia? I'm shocked-do-you-hear-me-SHOCKED...

Manis2Society warns of the continuing war on gays as a political issue in '04 at the Cosmic Iguana, and mentions more White House buck-passing towards the CIA in The Spy Game.

Norbizness at Happy Furry Puppy Story Time discovers a Make your own Church Sign Generator.

Northstar at the People's Republic of Seabrook muses that perhaps the Iranian Foreign Minister has a point when he observes that the US doesn't exactly have a lot of moral high ground at present.

Pompey at The Felonious Elephant reports on CT governor John Rowland's ties to Enron. Wonder if that fuel-cell project was going to be built anywhere near the casinos?

Rick at Rick's Cafe Americain seriously poses the question to conservative readers, "What's so great about Dubya, anyway?"

Scout at And Then... finds amusement in the latest antics of Young Republicans clubs.

Thorswitch at Different Strings puts on his trenchcoat and examines the Matrix, Bush-style.

Veralynne at A-Changin' Times checks out the good folks at the Bioweapons and Biodefense Freedom of Information Fund.

Estimated Prophet salutes the real Jessica Lynch.

As you may expect, Hell for Halliburton is all over the story of Canadian entrepreneur David Hudak and his warheads being used to train UAE soldiers.

The 18½ Minute Gap recommends what it terms "a fine, fine article by Michael R. Gordon" about the US sending some of the Army's Old Guard troops (the ones who stand vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery) to Iraq. The Gap also notes that everything we know about lightning may be wrong.

T Rex's Guide to Life predicts that Bush is goin' down, goin' down...

ntodd

# posted by ntodd : 11:51 PM

More LoL Fun

Cosmic Events for the League of Liberals:
Harmonic Concordance tomorrow night. - Indigo Ocean _ does that mean we all will vote this week?
Veralynne at A-Changin' Times is in Concordance too but not with Bloodthirsty Christians.
Christmas a week after Halloween? our Philosophical Scrivner wants to be British
A TTLB cartoon at Gotham City and another take on Hillbilly Heroin Rush
The author of The People's Republic of Seabrook and I share more than the same white beards, cats, and politics _ we have the same sunsign
This job "creation" chart from the 18 1/2 Minute Gap will make you wish you could Hitchhike the Galaxy
Officially unofficial is in the poppy fields of OZ looking at the tollbooths on the information superhighway
More cyberspace travel will come later _ Enjoy your trip around our cosmos.

ntodd

Must See BlogTV

Your daily tour of LoL members:
The Democratic Veteran asks Where have all the Cowboys Gone? and offers a lesson on the Fish Dyslexicon
Anglican Aftermath and Cowardly Cave are the crux of the avuncular entries on All Facts and Opinions
What rhymes with witch-slapped? and other "horrors" are among the Halloween holdovers at WTF is it Now?
Seek or See different strings on Diebold problems in Va.
Bush Sucks Bush hates Blue Skies read Sick of Bush it is a Principal of Least Effort.
Futurballa voted for Whale Power
Speedkill supports the League of Liberals by vote and voice
Limbaughtomy revisited Escape and Diebold sued see Rush Limbaughtomy

ntodd

Some Links For Today

I think some are going to be entered into the TTLB Showcase this week. The rest, you should just read 'em...

And Then.....Sigh we did not Rock the Vote but we Mourn Every Loss
A Legal Victory for Clarefied and Death by Invitation
Cosmic Iguana's Deadly Garage Sale
Gotham City 13 cites That ol Bush Admin and joins the League
Is the Philosophical Scrivner a Geek? or a virgin?
What to do with the NASCAR DADS? asks Maha and Censoring for the Gipper
Linda Tripp on MTV that's an 18 Minute Gap that should get your attention
Rick has new diners at his Cafe Americain are you on the A list?
Relax go surf and see on the healing waters of the Indigo Ocean

ntodd

TTLB Votes

Current Votes from DM:

The Spy Game

Halliburton Hell

LGF Watch

ink from the squid

Rick's Cafe Americain


I'll be adding these to the right nav here shortly...

ntodd

Today's LoL Reading

The Spy Game - the November Threat Revisited
Cosmic Iguana - The Army Times
Rush Limbaughtomy - Tax Dodging Limbaugh
TPRS - Expand your Horizons
Philosophical Scrivner - Sherlockian?
Talk is Cheap on Mahablog
The Reagan Truth - WTF is it NOW?
The NRO is Pathetic - Dohiyi Mir
blunted on reality - The End of the World
Windfall - Hell for Halliburton
Disconnect? - Happy Furry Puppy Story Time
Crappy Porn? - Shock and Awe
All Fact's and Opinions on Left Wing Media?
Pen-Elayne is Spinnin
different strings - Bush is a NITHING
Futurballa has a new gallery
Meet the NeoCons on Cup O' Joe
Indigo is NaNo
SpeedKill from Bozeman has his own Roundup
A Byrd in the hand is worth 200 Bushes - Sick of Bush
Arms and the Man - Sabotage
Election Day - at Rick's Cafe
Chomsky Soundbites And Then
Art Spies? - the Estimated Prophet
Rebel War - A Changin' Times

An Experiment

Permalinks seem bloggered, so while Sam entertains himself with a piece of fluff from one of Cairo's toys, I'm going to muck around a bit. Pay no attention to that blogger behind the keyboard...

ntodd

Chess Board Symbolism

Reader Sofarsogoo observed in a recent comment thread:

[I]t occurred to me that that chess diagram might be just sitting there for some sort of deep symbolic purpose -- such as White being in the process of trading his Bishop for a Knight in pursuit of an illusory material gain, which could leave him at a disadvantage in the middle game, with Black having the two Bishops on an open board. Mindful of Iraq in any way?

And with that, I officially suspend the chess game with my Palm Pilot until the war in Iraq is over, as a symbol of the situation. Unclear if I will pick up the game from where it stands if/when the war ends, or resign and start a new one...

ntodd

Taking Notes

This is just a secondary page to include blog notes, TTLB votes, LoL links and other things I don't want cluttering up my main blog. In other words, this ain't the place for coherent writing. Come to think of it, neither is my other site, Dohiyi Mir, but go there anyway...

Peace out,
ntodd