Joseph Cotto, who writes the “Conscience of a Realist” column for the Washington Times’ Communities section, recently contacted me for an interview in which is discussed the ideological layout of the contemporary blogosphere (along with my part in it). Part one of that interview can be read here.
— Followed, inevitably, by disparaging words from tim b. and maybe even EricPWJohnson in the comments, unless I miss my guess.
Very good, Jeff! I expect that will provoke some kind of outraged disagreement to the left and right of you.
Exactly what is needed, I think.
What’s the over-under on first WashTimes comment referring to you as “Jeffy”, though? Who, and how long will it take?
Pros: Eloquent, reasoned, concise.
Cons: No armadillo references.
Just read it … excellent! And the first commenter there agrees.
Excellent interview, Jeff.
Congratulations.
Nice!
It is most excellent.
A Jeff- primer, so far.
Well done, boss. When’s part two? Can’t wait!
Niiiiice.
Very nice, Jeff!
Looking forward to additional installments!
Well done.
Congratulations, Jeff. Well done as always. I’m glad that you’re finally getting your Hobbity, Visigothy message out there. It’s not like those code words are gonna speak themselves, right? I am looking forward to rest of the interview. Keep us posted.
Good deal, Jeff.
“Jeffy”
Jeffsterino
Just so you realize there is no echo-chamber here, I thought it sucked, Jeff. Way too much rationality and no emoting or listening to your feelings.
I was upset about the lack of a centerfold.
The food was awful and the portions too small.
Wait…
Joseph F. Cotto: Not so long ago, you were an academic and fiction writer. Did this prepare you for blogging?
You forgot to mention that, yes, it did, because everything the left claims is fiction.
[Well done, by the way — looking (leaning???) forward to Part II]
Nice. Look forward to part 2. I especially liked this: “The right-leaning blogosphere tends to be far more self-critical. It runs as a kind of far-flung debating society…”
So true in the places I like to go. Often when reading comments on almost any blog/news entry you see discussion among the “right” and blind conformity on the “left” – as well as people who love contrails, lizard-people, etc.
Good interview. You even got “hobbits” in there. Heh. :)
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Speaking of contrails, I was surprised by how many of the callers to Coast-to-Coast AM insinuated that the Tea Party was responsible. I fully expected the standard “truther” tropes (which abounded) but not the creepy observations that it happened in “Boston. Get it? Tea Party?” (to commemorate 16 Dec 1773, no doubt). Another creep insisted that the Sandy Hook people were the targets because they had VIP seating near the finish line, and the explosions coincided with Sandy Hook people completing the race.
Not that the VIP seating box was on the other side of the street from the bomb, but whatevs…
What kind of tax-protesting teabagger plans his Big Boom on Tax Day and then goes after a foot race? I doubt very much that tax day or Patriot’s Day is part of the calculation: it’s got to be either a grudge against the marathon or just a desire to blow up a crowd of people—any people.
For the sake of mayhem.
I hate humanity sometimes.
OK, all the time.
The Sandy Hooksters better keep looking over their shoulders. Three’s the charm, after all.
Good interview. I hope it gets some traction out there, and some traffic back here.
You know why you hate humanity, right, di?
Mind-control chemicals dispersed via aerosol in… you guessed it…
Contrails. From invisible jets using Area 52 technology.
The TRVTH Is Out There™
Area 52?
They built another one?
Damn Feds, like rabbits.
Mind-control chemicals dispersed via aerosol in… you guessed it…
Contrails.
It was the contrail chems that made the planes burn so hot that they melted steel, see.
I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever thought knowing what this country was founded to do and what it was so founded upon and how that all worked would make us adult normals radical extremists in our lifetimes.
Did I mention how fast this all came on? And how about half of who I know are deep, deep into it like donkeykings?
On the other hand, GMOs really do suck. So they have that. And Monsanto.
And Big Pharma, the government school system — but I repeat myself — and family law. It’s a spectrum.
Good job, boss.
And congrats to squid on the promotion.
Does the promotion come with a raise?
Only if you’re crooked.
Sure. Instead of a single daily morale-boosting beating, you can have two.
Good job Jeff. Looking forward to part two.
Was waiting for the first lefty to head over there and trash me. Took longer than I expected.
That a list of all of Slippery Slope’s various issues with us Jeff. Straw man a-hoy!
I finally got around to reading the piece. Overall I thought it was good, but your last answer got, I think, a little too inside-basebally. Maybe not. I’m a bit of a premature old-fart, so maybe the wider blogosphere knows what you mean by Hobbits better than I think they do.
Also, you swear too much to be taken entirely seriously.
I say that as someone who has to consciously remind himself to not greet the priest with “hey Father, how the fuck are ya?” on Sundays, so, I hope you take that as honest criticism and not nitpicking prudery.
hey i swear all the time
Thank you for proving my point.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/04/15/blue-civil-war-knives-drawn-in-battle-for-education/
I wanna believe…
A true blue Democrat sees the word “accountability” he knows something is up, paleo.
Hilarious,
That might be the understatement of the year.
effin’ hobbits
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Cotto sounds like a fluffer — of the establishment.
Oh, and by the by, what historically goes hand in hand with polygamy?
Eunuchs!
Which, not that there’s anything wrong with that, right?
It’s pretty decent, as operating systems go.