I just dropped my wife and three kids off at the airport. I'm bacheloring it until finals are over. I haven't decided yet whether this means more or less blogging. On the one hand I come home to an empty house so I have nothing better to do than blog. On the other hand I come home to an empty house so I can go to the movies, out to dinner, fishing, play basketball, or whatever.

It's quite a dilema.

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Remember the blog sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou blog, and do all thy blogging. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord of the Blogosphere. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy blog-son, nor thy blog-daughter, thy blog-servant, nor thy blog-hos, nor thy cats (for lame-o cat-blogging), nor thy guest-blogger that is within thy URL. For in six days the Lord made the blogosphere and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the blog sabbath day, and hallowed it. (with apologies to Deity)

Turn the computer off. Make some human contact (with real live people). Visit your family. Call your mom. Do something productive. Give other people a day off by not buying anything. Give yourself the day off by not blogging. Remember, blogs were made for man and not man for blogs.

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While the MSM sees fit to eulogize a man who murdered his own children, Digger has decided to pay the victims tribute. A touching post dedicated to innocent lives lost.

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Let me just clarify one thing from the last post: I'm not going to vote for myself, and you shouldn't either.

I know I nominated me, but now that I see the competition I'm outclassed.

Vote for Bill at INDC, he's a funnier than me and has done more important work. And despite rumors (started by me) to the contrary, he is not gay.

Or vote for Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (better site design and more dedicated), Jane from Armies of Liberation (actually gets published in the Arab media so more impact), or Preston at Six Meat Buffet (who's hot dog thingy is awesome-o).

Don't under any circumstances vote for NRO's Kerry Spot. I mean, is that really a blog? Jonah Goldberg is a talented writer and does important work, but he's not a blogger. Maybe if he'd throw me a link......

Other categories? more...

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Finally a video to go with the theme song for Team America: World Police (the funniest movie ever made) via Professor Chaos who I think must have seen the link at Ace of Spades.

The video can be seen here but is definitely not safe for work and has about half a second of porn spliced into it in true Tyler Durden fashion.

How did they rip me off? Notice the Tusken Raider metaphor spliced into the video? That.

I have a feeling Russ B. is old school Pet Jawa, maybe through mutual friend Cooper. Either that or warped minds just think alike when ripping off South Park metaphors. Besides, Dr. Leopold Stotch reminds me that I didn't call patent, and if I had tried to call it evil George Lucas would have sicked his minion lawyers on me. Of course, from the looks of the rest of his page Russ just doesn't get Team America: World Police. Not one bit.

In any event the video is pure evil genius.

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Did you know that The Jawa Report is bigger than Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish? It's true. At least according to Dan the Carnivorous Conservative's who argues that a better method for measuring blog success it by total daily hours of readership. While Dan should be made aware that the TTLB Ecosystem has been having a few issues as of late (NZ Bear is already on the case), and thus the initial numbers he's using may be off, I think the overall gist of his method is sound. And by 'sound' I mean highly inflates the importance of my blog while deflating the importance of my rivals!(Note from Minitru: all methodological problems in contradiction to objective goals of the Party should go unreported.)

His method is this:

take the average number of daily visits times the number of seconds per visit. That gives you total viewing time in seconds. Dividing that by 60 yields minutes and dividing by 60 again gives you hours.

KOS 399.07
Drudge Retort 335.05
Instapundit 228.77
LGF 211.68
Protein Wisdom 169.39
Wonkette 162.89
Winds of Change 155.02
Eschaton 141.27
Volokh 135.02
Captains Quarters 127.72
Wizbang 116.26
Belmont Club 113.63
ACE 112.97
The Jawa Report 112.63
NZ Bear's TTLB 89.29
Outside the Beltway 63.6
INDC 58.00
Hewitt 57.44
AsmallVictory 56.49
Powerline 44.55
Andrew Sullivan 44.14
The Politburo Diktat 43.66 (watch out AS!!)
Flea 41.12 (in the Spirit of Male Objectification Week Flea is on AS's rear)
Laurence Simon 28.16
Llama Butchers 21.76 (ouch!!)

I have no problem with Goldstein beating me [even if it takes me, like, five minutes before I really get any of Jeff's posts], and I'm tickled pink to be right up there with fellow mu.nu domain buddy Ace (who, BTW, is doing nothing wrong according to this method), but what the hell is Wonkette doing beating any of us!! Where is the justice in that? How much time can a guy really spend on her site after doing a Google search for Jessica Cutler anal sex?

Of course, the consolation is that Andrew Sullivan, according to this metric, is hardly read at all. It's the small things, really, that make life worthwhile.

Alas I'm afraid that Bill will not like this, not one bit! And the Butchers?? Where are the Butchers!!!!

Alas, as I was parousing the old blogroll in search of victims for this post I found a number of blogs that:

a) don't use Site Meter (probably because it is notorious for being wrong and underestimating hits)

b) don't allow Site Meter to publish their data publicly (probably because they are ashamed of the number of hits they get) or

c) allow Site Meter to publish their data publicly (but should get a clue from group 'b' above and hide their info--I didn't include a lot of those on my regular read list because I didn't want the word to get out that some of you get, like, 50 hits a day--so don't be offended that I left you out)

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Blogchild Brian B. asks that you keep his aunt in your prayers. She will undergo surgery tomorrow.

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