Week of 12/24/06 thru 12/30/06
I've just finished writing my year-end post, which I'll put up later today, but first I wanted to get to the last Liberal Coalition-and-bonus-non-LC-posts blogaround of 2006:
• A couple unexpected but welcome blogarounds this past week from Kathy and Lilith.
• Echidne expresses extreme skepticism over a male-created BBC quiz about how men and women think differently, opines about an illustration from a supposed NRA graphic novel in the works (I don't believe it for a minute - for one, the PDF that BoingBoing ran clearly shows it has no sequential art whatsoever, it's merely some sort of illustrated booklet), and reminds us that study findings can often be interpreted in different ways by different people to further different ends.
• Guy's just testing us. Nothing to see here, move along...
• Kathy tells a nice Christmas story, Steve G offers his O. Henry twist, and Moi catches up with the actress who played Zuzu Bailey. And Mustang Bobby delves into the origins of Boxing Day.
• Scrutiny Hooligans thought this US map quiz was a lot harder than I did.
• Steve G chooses his winners and losers from 2006, as well as the top 10 national stories of the year.
• Lastly, upyernoz has some very good advice for pundits who are easily surprised.
And a few bonus non-LC links:
• Milestone notes: Avedon celebrates a birthday; Frank Paynter talks about his tenth blogiversary, sort of; Billmon's Whiskey Bar would appear to be gone again (and thus off my blogroll) although he's been known to un-retire before; Rachel Barenblat is recovering from a couple minor strokes and appears to be shaken but okay; and Susie has a brand-new job as press secretary for a Philly mayoral candidate which will cut way down on her blogging (since she currently posts about 15-20 times a day this means she will become human rather than superhuman) and Suburban Guerilla will take on some guest bloggers. (Naturally as soon as she made this announcement her hosting company shut down her blog for crashing their server, leading to all sorts of speculation; the blog's back now.) She's celebrating by planning one heck of a social life over the next couple days.
• Atrios, who desperately needs the hits, presents his taxonomy of annoying people on "our" side of the political blogosphere. I'd add a few other categories mainly having to do with not criticizing the motes in other people's eyes until we acknowledge the logs in our own, but in the spirit of the season I think I'll pass.
• David Niewert's put up part four of his Eliminationism in America series.
• Tom Hilton writes on bogeymen old and new.
• Ragnell tries to head arguments about fan entitlement versus feminism off at the pass. Yea Lisa, good luck with that! In my experience, once a fan decides that fictional characters are more important than real people, there's no reasoning with them, and they'll go pretty far out of their way to cite examples that prove the points they set out to make, even when those examples are more probably, as the original poster opined, bad writing or bad art rather than ingrained misogyny. I try never to ascribe to malice what is more easily attributable to incompetence or rushed deadlines or too many cooks or other logical real-life considerations.
• David at Barista tells us about Marie Tharp and her plate tectonics map.
• Lindsay is delighting in posting lots of holiday pictures, many involving chocolate-covered kimchi. Which better not be in the next dessert she brings to the NYC blogger BBQ...
That's it for me until my last post of 2006!
• A couple unexpected but welcome blogarounds this past week from Kathy and Lilith.
• Echidne expresses extreme skepticism over a male-created BBC quiz about how men and women think differently, opines about an illustration from a supposed NRA graphic novel in the works (I don't believe it for a minute - for one, the PDF that BoingBoing ran clearly shows it has no sequential art whatsoever, it's merely some sort of illustrated booklet), and reminds us that study findings can often be interpreted in different ways by different people to further different ends.
• Guy's just testing us. Nothing to see here, move along...
• Kathy tells a nice Christmas story, Steve G offers his O. Henry twist, and Moi catches up with the actress who played Zuzu Bailey. And Mustang Bobby delves into the origins of Boxing Day.
• Scrutiny Hooligans thought this US map quiz was a lot harder than I did.
• Steve G chooses his winners and losers from 2006, as well as the top 10 national stories of the year.
• Lastly, upyernoz has some very good advice for pundits who are easily surprised.
And a few bonus non-LC links:
• Milestone notes: Avedon celebrates a birthday; Frank Paynter talks about his tenth blogiversary, sort of; Billmon's Whiskey Bar would appear to be gone again (and thus off my blogroll) although he's been known to un-retire before; Rachel Barenblat is recovering from a couple minor strokes and appears to be shaken but okay; and Susie has a brand-new job as press secretary for a Philly mayoral candidate which will cut way down on her blogging (since she currently posts about 15-20 times a day this means she will become human rather than superhuman) and Suburban Guerilla will take on some guest bloggers. (Naturally as soon as she made this announcement her hosting company shut down her blog for crashing their server, leading to all sorts of speculation; the blog's back now.) She's celebrating by planning one heck of a social life over the next couple days.
• Atrios, who desperately needs the hits, presents his taxonomy of annoying people on "our" side of the political blogosphere. I'd add a few other categories mainly having to do with not criticizing the motes in other people's eyes until we acknowledge the logs in our own, but in the spirit of the season I think I'll pass.
• David Niewert's put up part four of his Eliminationism in America series.
• Tom Hilton writes on bogeymen old and new.
• Ragnell tries to head arguments about fan entitlement versus feminism off at the pass. Yea Lisa, good luck with that! In my experience, once a fan decides that fictional characters are more important than real people, there's no reasoning with them, and they'll go pretty far out of their way to cite examples that prove the points they set out to make, even when those examples are more probably, as the original poster opined, bad writing or bad art rather than ingrained misogyny. I try never to ascribe to malice what is more easily attributable to incompetence or rushed deadlines or too many cooks or other logical real-life considerations.
• David at Barista tells us about Marie Tharp and her plate tectonics map.
• Lindsay is delighting in posting lots of holiday pictures, many involving chocolate-covered kimchi. Which better not be in the next dessert she brings to the NYC blogger BBQ...
That's it for me until my last post of 2006!
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