Archive of entries posted on 26th February 2007

The Tyranny of Those with Too Much Time on Their Hands

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I see Little Green Footballs and Hot Air are still going on about the problems with Digg. Basically, their stories that are submitted to Digg are then descended upon by a bunch of cyber-monkeys who do nothing but bury opinions they don’t like. Thus, as soon as an LGF post makes the front page of Digg, it’s soon removed for being marked as “inaccurate” or “spam” and thus LGF and other conservative sites miss the huge number of eyeballs that the front page of Digg delivers. It’s hard to say how many of the people who use Digg daily are left-wing nut balls, but my guess is it’s a small minority that spend all day prowling for any opinions that offend their senses and crushing said opinions. Still, it’s certainly enough people.
Efforts against this so far has seemed to be to appeal to a sense of fairness in these losers at Digg or to shame them for their fascists tendencies.
Hello! Have you guys ever met a liberal on the internet before? These people are so lost in their reality-based fantasy world where they valiantly wage war against Emperor ChimpyMcHilterburton that they are as immune to reason as Superman is to bullets. If the guys who run Digg don’t care about the rules being exploited to suppress certain viewpoints, then the only way to change things is to force a rule change by making things unworkable as they are. If making Digg fair is important to conservatives, then the only possibly effective course of action is to organize efforts to bury and mark as spam any entries from sites popular on Digg until everyone demands the ratings system be fixed.
Of course, this isn’t important to me so I won’t be joining. I did add the Digg option to posts on IMAO out of solidarity with the right-wing blogosphere, but I don’t see the point in pressing this any further. The same sort of thing going on at Digg has happened with YouTube and any entry on controversial topic on Wikipedia. What conservatives face here is more a force of nature. The people who rule the internet will always be those with the most spare time on their hands, and liberal weenies are always going to have an excess of spare time (why do you think they are the ones who do protests?). This isn’t a battle we can win, and I think it’s a waste of time to fight it.

In My World: Non-Binding Satire

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“Yay! Pudding cup time!” President Bush exclaimed as he eagerly tore off the plastic cover and grabbed a spoon. “Nothing better than pudding cup time.”
“We need to talk to you!” Harry Reid and John Murtha barged into the Oval Office.
“Hey! No one is supposed to bother me during pudding cup time… unless it’s about pudding!”
“We have important things to discuss with you!” Reid said.
“No you don’t! You’re Democrats!” Bush pulled his pudding cup close to him so they wouldn’t steal it.
“You’re going to lose this war and we’ll make sure!” Murtha said. “We passed a non-binding resolution in the House against your surge!”
“You’re a surge!” Bush shouted.
“You’re wit is as sharp as always,” Reid said, “but that won’t save you when I finally get my cloture vote to pass a non-binding resolution against you in the Senate!”
“You’ll never get a cloture vote because you have no penis!”
“You have no proof of that!”
Bush waved his pudding spoon at them. “You Democrats are bad bad people! Did either of you think of how this sort of thing will affect the troops?”

“I heard the Democrats passed a non-binding resolution,” Gomez the Marine said as he patrolled a street in Iraq. “Any idea what that is?”
“No,” Buck the Marine answered, “but I’m guessing from context it’s some sort of homosexual sex act.”

“Enough talk!” Murtha shouted. He held up a piece of paper. “This is a non-binding arrest warrant for your illegal warring! Now I’m going put you in non-binding cuffs.” He placed handcuffs on Bush that promptly fell off. “Just wait until your non-binding trial when I read all these non-binding charges in this non-binding binder!” He held up a binder and all the papers fell out of it.
“Why are your pants around your ankles?” Bush asked. “Is your belt-buckle non-binding?”
“That plant is laughing at me!” Murtha shouted and pointed.
Bush looked where Murtha was pointing. “That’s a desk lamp.”
“What Murtha is trying to say,” Reid said, “is that you best declare your loss and end your war now! We Democrats will pester you until you have no hope but to–”
“Aieee!” Murtha screamed and jumped out the window.
“What was that about?” Bush asked.
Reid shrugged. “Who knows.”
“You ever thought about putting him in a home?”
“Well… we’re looking at a few different options… Anyway, your war is lost and there is nothing you can do to keep we Democrats from surrendering! Muh ha ha ha ha!” Reid then stood there for a moment. “Murtha had the car keys; can you call me a cab back to the Capitol?”
“No!” Bush threw a stapler at Reid who fled out the door. “Back to pudding cup time!” Bush was about to take a spoonful, but Condoleezza Rice rushed in and grabbed the pudding cup.
“Pudding cup time is over. You have to work on foreign affairs!”
“Nooooooooooo!” Bush yelled and pounded his desk. “Hey, Condi, which party controls Congress right now?”
“The Democrats.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.”
“Then why do they seem even more useless than before?”

It’s Out There… I Guess

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What’s the story with the new FOX News’ show about blogs called It’s Out There? It’s hosted by Michelle Malkin and Kristen Powers and premiered yesterday against the Oscars after a rerun of the 1/2Hour News Hour pilot. I can’t find it mentioned on either Malkin’s or Powers’ blog, and only found out about it to tivo it because Powers appeared on FOX and Friends Sunday morning. Did they not want bloggers to find out about it? Actually, having watched it, it wasn’t too much information I don’t know already from my regular blog reading, so maybe it’s aimed more at someone who doesn’t normally read blogs… like Cadet Happy (yes, he blogs for IMAO and I found out this weekend he’s never heard of the Edwards’ blogger scandal). The show has potential, but I wonder if I’ll see it again next weekend.
I guess, being this the blogosphere, I could just e-mail Malkin and Powers asking about the show instead of asking you people who probably don’t know anything more than I do and will just spout more unsubstantiated theories, but, if I make an effort to find out more information about a story, then I’m no better than a common journalists.
Eh, I’ll e-mail them. I don’t want you pestering them now that I mentioned it and then getting that blamed on me.
BTW, isn’t using Wikipedia as a source the same as using “some guy” as a source? I would surprised that any teacher who knows what Wikipedia is would allow it being using as a research source. Since everything on Wikipedia is supposed to be sourced, it’s still useful as a research tool if you explore all of its claims in an article.
UPDATE:
John Hawkins saw the show and had the same reaction I did, except, instead of not bothering to look up the third person’s name who appears on the show, I just didn’t even mention him.
UPDATE 2:
Duh. When I want to find out about a show on FOX News, I should turn to News Hounds. It’s a very interesting site; basically, it’s a bunch of liberals who hate FOX News who do nothing but watch FOX News and blog about it. You should see they’re dour humorlessness applied to Red Eye (Gutfeld made two of their picks for most outrageous FOX News quotes of the week); that combination is pure comedy gold.
Anyway, here is their take on It’s Out There. They agree with me that the concept is promising, and I agree with them that it would be better to feature more far left-wing blogs. That’s always entertaining.
UPDATE FINAL:
Never got a response from Malkin or Powers in e-mail and they still haven’t mentioned the show on their sites, so I can only assume some huge sort of conspiracy is going on here. Thus I will stop talking about this lest I be disappeared.