....I'll change. I swear. All that time I spent with those mu.nu whores, I was thinking about you. I love you baby. Take me back!!

(speaking of whores: whorishly linked to the Traffic Jam)

Posted by: Rusty at 05:06 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 42 words, total size 1 kb.

This weeks Bonfire of the Vanities is up. I will be hosting next weeks, so start writing your worst post of the upcoming week now!

Might I suggest this post over at Beautiful Attrocities for next weeks Bonfire? Jeff is hereby elevated to Sith Master and required to read this post before he goes accusing me of being a Star Wars fanatic again--and instead think more along the lines of South Park! (the Natalie Portman thing, though, is correct)

I also nominate Gordon the Cranky Neocon for not kissing but and not trying to score with blog-sista Jane (she's married dude). Jane, of course, doesn't qualify for the Bonfire because her recently published op-ed in the Lebanon Daily Star is brilliant.

Posted by: Rusty at 01:43 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 139 words, total size 1 kb.

Come on you wimps. You know you want to kill cats. And not just the annoying ones in the alley that keep you up all night. The newborn kittiess too. One week old, eyes not open, suckling their mommy kitty's teet--you want to grab them and throw them down on the ground, then step on them and watch their brains ooze out. Cowards. Admit it, you love to kill kittens!

And while you're looking down at their brains on your jackboots, ask yourself this question--Can a kitty killer really love America?

Posted by: Rusty at 05:10 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
Post contains 97 words, total size 1 kb.

When the left starts talking about corporate censorship, and I read this story, I start thinking they have a point. USA Today:

Athletes may be the center of attention at the Olympic Games, but don't expect to hear directly from them online — or see snapshots or video they've taken.
The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from writing firsthand accounts for news and other Web sites.

An exception is if an athlete has a personal Web site that they did not set up specifically for the Games.

The IOC's rationale for the restrictions is that athletes and their coaches should not serve as journalists — and that the interests of broadcast rightsholders and accredited media come first.

Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions — akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview — but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end Aug. 29.

FASCISTS Pigs

Posted by: Rusty at 11:36 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 226 words, total size 2 kb.

Did I say Islamic? I meant Llama Style.

Posted by: Rusty at 09:04 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 16 words, total size 1 kb.

I'd pull an INDC best of, but the premise is all wrong for this site. Can you believe I'm going to a 'retreat' but not actually leaving town? If they ask us to start doing trust exercises I'm bolting.

PS-In case I bolt the meeting, I'm going Bigfoot Hunting. I'm serious. I really have gone Bigfoot Hunting. (read, snipe hunt)

Posted by: Rusty at 08:44 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 64 words, total size 1 kb.

I'm going to a 'retreat' tomorrow. Worse than a regular retreat, this one doesn't even have the charm of going out of town. Instead, the powers that be rented out a bed and breakfast in town. Charming, they say. I say bah-humbug!! Posting will be light or non-existent. Stupid meetings.....

Posted by: Rusty at 08:16 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 56 words, total size 1 kb.

Did you know Noam Chomsky has a blog? Ghost of a Flea is in an all out race to beat Chomsky in the TTLB Ecosystem, begging for linkage. I just checked my own TTLB rating, and I beat Chomsky by a full 192 blogs!!! Just two days ago I was another 20 blogs ahead (see what happens when you don't post for two days).

Since I'm sure Chomsky will begin to climb as soon as word gets out about his blog, here are my two goals:

a) never link Chomsky again. The TTLB Ecosystem is based on number of unique incoming links. NEVER link Chomsky. If you want to say something about his blog, don't link it. Why? This post explains it with a follow up post here.

b) get banned at Zmag, where Chomsky's blog has a home. You can wear that as a badge of honor. "I was banned at Zmag!" No, I take this one back. Zmag wants you to front $3 bucks for the honor of comenting. No wonder Chomsky has zero comments to his posts. You think any of his readers even has a job?

Those are my goals, and should be yours too!!!

UPDATE: Tuning Spork more thoroughly fisks Chomsky and doesn't drop a link!

Also, kudos to Mark and Comrade Rusty (wink) for also taking the pledge!

Posted by: Rusty at 02:59 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
Post contains 232 words, total size 2 kb.

You don't post for two days and the whole world falls apart. First, you get the Swifties being fisked all over the mainstream media while they let Kerry get away with murder (and I mean that literally, if you take Kerry at his word that he was a war criminal). This is what Noam Chomsky calls the 'selection bias' or something to that effect (yes, I'm too lazy to pop open my copy of Manufaturing Consent!)

On another front you have a (yet another--what is the plural form of truce?? tuces? truci?) truce with al Sadr being brokered and broken twice since my last post. Didn't any one at State ever read The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

So, I'm going to just ignore everything that has happened in the last 72 hours. Tuesday and Wednesday didn't happen. Ah, this is what it feels like to be a Democrat! It's not as bad as I expected.

Posted by: Rusty at 11:09 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 161 words, total size 1 kb.

I wasn't in yesterday, but I better follow through on my commitment. The blogroll is in the extended entry. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 09:32 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 34 words, total size 1 kb.

Went fishing yesterday. Sorry, a guy has to have his priorities.

Posted by: Rusty at 09:13 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
Post contains 15 words, total size 1 kb.

Screw you guys, I'm going home!

Posted by: Rusty at 12:50 PM | Comments (25) | Add Comment
Post contains 12 words, total size 1 kb.

Meetings all morning. One good thing is that I grabbed one of the precious back-row chairs. What was the meeting about? No idea. I did get a chance to read chapters one and two of Campaigns in the 21st Century, by Richard J. Semiatin, though. The book is assigned reading for my Campaigns and Elections class I'm teaching this fall. So far, so good. The author seems pretty fair and picks on Dems and Reps pretty equally.

One interesting bit from chapter 1 was the way the author characterized Karl Rove vs. Dick Morris. Dick Morris is said to be a professional opportunist who works for the money. Karl Rove, on the other hand, is described as a loyal friend of the Bush family who turned down opportunities to make millions in the private sector for a White House appointment. Interesting.

Posted by: Rusty at 10:37 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 151 words, total size 1 kb.

Like the famed Phoenix of Arizona, this post is reborn out of the ashes of my archives. What started as a silly post to indulge my vanity has made the internet rounds.

Like a DJ at a top-forty station I will suck every last hit out of this post until the public cries in unison, "Enough! Away with your foul reposting!!" Besides, with mucho responsibilities around the Ivory Tower and with the relatives in town, I really haven't had time to sit down and write anything meaningful. Not that I ever write anything meaningful....

If you've already read it, act like you're at a party. You know, they start playing Nelly's It's Gettin Hot in Here and someone invariable says what a cool song it is, but you can't really say anything about how that song was interesting the first bajillion times you heard it.....Act like that.
__________________________________________________________________________

You miss a day blogging. No time for a serious hard-hitting post. Hits are down. What do you do? Engage in the blogosphere's oldest vice: Link dropping!!!

But that's just one of the mortal vices of blogging. What are the others?

Rusty Shackleford presents: The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: a brief guide.*

1) The Link Drop Post: Steven Taylor and I prove kindrid souls on this one. Don't think this one works? Do you actually believe Glenn Reynolds was born Satan's right-hand man or had to work on it?

2) Search Terms Post: Google not treating you right? BRD has a full discourse on the merits of porn and conspiracy theories. Sure fire way to up the ol' sitemeter .....and send your soul right to Beelzebub's dominion.

3) The Re-post Post: Had a popular post in the past? Hits down? Ace re-introduces us to one of his greatest hit-jobs. Remember, this sin sometimes counts double.

4) The Blogroll Post: Get bloggers attention fast! The Llama Butchers are ordered to do 5 Hail Mary's and an Our Father for jeapordizing their immortal souls.

5) The Breaking News Post: The blogger ethos requires a link to the first person breaking the story. MH King, Amanda Doerty, Jeff Quinton, James....I say to you repent!!

6) The Caption Contest Post: Win the caption, get a link. See how this works? This sin seems to be reserved for Fridays. Shame on you Kevin!

7) The Recipricol Link Post: Want to up your TTLB Ecosystem rating? Easy. Start an 'Alliance' of 'like-minded bloggers' to recipricate links. (via Commissar) Jessica and Boi From Troi are warned that this mortal sin will not go unpunished!!

In the Name of He Who Rules the Blogosphere I Warn All of You to Repent! Any other Bloggers who engage in these sins have been forwarned. Hell-fire and brimstone await if you do not change your wicked ways!

*Mia Culpa. Yes, I have been guilty of all these vile acts in the past. I have seen the light! I once was lost, but now I'm saved.....

Posted by: Rusty at 08:46 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
Post contains 507 words, total size 4 kb.

1 Ptffffpptthh!!! You're just sore that I didn't include you in the courtesy list...

Posted by: mhking at August 17, 2004 09:19 AM (bJ0qq)

2 Hey you forgot one: leaving gratuitous comments on other people's blogs. For example, this one! Aw snap.

Posted by: Johnny Walker Red at August 17, 2004 10:37 AM (4AwR3)

3 Damn! Foiled again and guilty as charged...

Posted by: Rtfm at August 17, 2004 09:51 PM (OtwUl)

4 Rusty, you're going to have to add another one: the post that will not die. You really need to let this go.

Posted by: Simon at August 18, 2004 02:36 AM (OyeEA)

5 Califragafuckinlistic advice - many thanks - only really discovered the world of the blog this week but already can see it seeping into the inner reaches of my conscious with every waking moment greetings and salutations blog people - I am becoming one of you....

Posted by: Spo at June 03, 2005 03:21 AM (Ni2ib)

6 Check out this blog: AFF's Brainwash - Chris Roach - you'll be glad ya did.

Posted by: rightwinggirl at June 30, 2005 11:55 PM (1rMYI)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Blog daughter Jane has one-upped me and bought a .com domainL. Go visit her new site.

Also, the Crack Young Staff over at the Hatemonger's Quarterly are having a worst song ever contest. I'm thinking anything from Don Henley qualifies, but I'm sure at least one of you disagrees.

Posted by: Rusty at 08:30 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 51 words, total size 1 kb.

A) Back to work.
B) Planned system downage, so no internet access tomorrow.
C) Relatives in town.

Posted by: Rusty at 04:06 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 21 words, total size 1 kb.

Good morning sunshine. Work starts again today, even though students don't come back for another week and a half. My day? Meetings, meetings, meetings, etc. My pre-work morning routine went something like this.

Morning Caffeine: check
Morning Hug: check.
Morning Cereal: check
Mornig News: check.
Morning Editorial. check (finally!!).

Hey, didn't post until AFTER meetings ended. How did they go? Splendid. And by 'splendid' I mean 'ended early'!!

Posted by: Rusty at 11:31 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 72 words, total size 1 kb.

Just wait til Ace and Bill hear about this. Via nTodd who dropped a comment to me comes word that Jessica Cutler is back in the limelight. Before I go on, can I just ask how Washingtonienne is 'news', but the fact that John Kerry was never in Cambodia is 'not news' according WaPo?

WaPo (subscription):

Jessica's blog (short for "Web log") was the online diary she had been posting anonymously to amuse herself and her closest girlfriends. In it, she detailed the peccadilloes of the men she said were her six current sexual partners, including a married Bush administration official who met her in hotel rooms and gave her envelopes of cash; a senator's staff member who helped hire her, then later bedded her; and another man who liked to spank and be spanked.

Rob, James, David, Eric Scoles, and (shock) Kevin already on the case.

UPDATE: Why is it that when we think Washingtonienne or Jessica Cutler we think of Bill at INDC? The Llamma Butchers are officially Munuvians, and they get the ball rolling right! And when Jeff Goldstein thinks of sex-for-money blogging, he also thinks of Bill. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 11:35 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
Post contains 1405 words, total size 9 kb.

I'm on board, are you? Let's pitch in to help victims of Hurricane Charley. (via NZ Bear)

Posted by: Rusty at 10:10 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.

...turn out the lights, and his nose will grow. Yo, will you stop kicking a brotha when he's down?

Posted by: Rusty at 09:28 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 35 words, total size 1 kb.