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The Best Of The Virginia Blogosphere

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 23rd, 2008. Filed under Blog Carnivals, Blogging

The latest edition of the The Jeffersoniad Journal is up over at CatHouse Chat. It’s well worth checking out, and I’m not just saying that because one of my posts got included.

Blogging The Libertarian Convention

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, May 21st, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Blogging, Libertarians, Politics, The Liberty Papers

Stephen Littau and Jason Pye, two of my co-contributors at The Liberty Papers will be attending the Libertarian National Convention in Denver, which begins tomorrow:
The Libertarian National Convention will run this Memorial Day weekend beginning on Thursday, May 22nd and ending on Monday, May 26th. I plan on attending the convention representing The Liberty Papers […]

Below The Beltway On Facebook And Twitter

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, May 20th, 2008. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Facebook profile so send me a friend request if you’re on there as well.
And, I’ve set up an account on Twitter that I pretty much only use when I’m on the computer. Follow me if you want.

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?

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