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Come Check Out The Fireworks

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 16th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty

I’ve gotten myself into a lovely little exchange prompted by the California gay marriage decision over at Leslie Carbone’s blog.
I think I’ve held my own quite nicely, if I must say.

It’s Time For Separation Of Marriage And State

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 16th, 2008. Filed under Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty, Legal, Privacy, Religion, The Liberty Papers

I posted this about seven months ago over at The Liberty Papers. Given yesterday’s ruling in California, I think a repost is timely:
Historian Stephanie Coontz has an interesting article in today’s New York Times examining the relationship between the state and the institution of marriage. As Coontz notes, the idea that all marriages must be […]

More Time To Blog Than Even I Have

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, May 13th, 2008. Filed under Blogging

Not only is Ann Althouse blogging at her regular blog, she’s also blogging the past:

It’s a new blog designed to make up for the terrible feeling of retrospective loss I feel for all the years when there was no blogging.
I’m assuming that the real blogging of news, culture, […]

Half A Million

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, May 12th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

Just a little bit ago, Sitemeter recorded visitor No. 500,000 since April 1, 2006.
Thanks for visiting !

Some How I Don’t Think The Mullah’s Would Approve

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 25th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

The referral logs sometimes yield the most interesting little tidbits.
Consider this from the Islamic Republic Of Iran:

Apparently, our erstwhile Iranian web surfer was conducting this search and visited this page.

And We’re Back

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 24th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

Internet access was down around here for about the past 24 hours.
Thanks for nothing, Comcast.
On another note, I’ll be back tomorrow. Too late in the day to write anything substantive anyway.

Strange Search Engine Search Leading Here

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

Apparently, someone was asking Ask.com an really basic question:
why does the sun rise on the east and sets on the west of the earth?

Well This Is Pretty Cool

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 16th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, Music

A website that lets you find out what song was # 1 on the Billboard Top 100 on the day you were born.
For me it’s “Hello, I Love You” by The Doors
H/T: Ann Althouse

The New York Times: Blogging Will Kill You

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 6th, 2008. Filed under Blogging

That seems to be the conclusion that the Grey Lady wants us to draw from this bizarre story:
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work […]

Look ! Up In The Sky ! It’s A Bird ! It’s A Plane !

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 6th, 2008. Filed under Blogging

It’s me !

More fun quizzes by Settlement Quotes- Annuities.
H/T: Blueweeds

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