I also note that Time is apparently attempting to destroy any credibility it might have left by hiring Andrew Sullivan as in-house blogger.
On the other hand, a Time.com senior editor, Tony Karon, blogs at Rootless Cosmopolitan and his politics differ quite a bit from Sullivan's (via Eric Umansky).
1: keep in mind what blog Time is currently associated with in most people's minds. I'd say Sullivan is a pretty huge step up for them.
Ugh. Reading Sully is like sucking on a Tootsie Pop with walrus dung at the center. Or something like that.
1 & 4: I stopped regularly reading Sullivan a good while ago, but don't consider him unusually objectionable. If you guys do, what is the most Bush (or Republican)-supportive blog which you find readable?
I like Matt Yglesias sometimes, but that's definitely as far right as I'll go.
I go for the anti-idiotarian rottweiler myself.
unfogged.com
I don't know that I'd call any bush-supporting site readable. However, I do check, from time to time, instapundit, gateway pundit, sullivan, and bainbridge. I don't have FL's penchant for enjoying the intellectual sloppiness/dishonesty of the worst of the righties. The ones I listed are bad enough.
out of curiosity, is LSU's confederate flag thing really getting any national attention? As in, does anyone here have any idea what I'm referencing?
9: Nope.
Obsidian Wings used to be my token righty site, but the lefties seem to post a lot more these days. Tom Maguire is often better than the rest of 'em, but I can't say I read him. Drezner is OK (and of course went against Bush in '04).
9: Kind of drowned out by their win over 'Bama, wouldn't you say? (My priorities are all wrong until the Rose Bowl.)
I enjoy Virginia Postrel's blog, the dynamist, but her posting can be infrequent, since she's a full time writer and columnist. I guess I have a penchant for liberatarians, because I also look at Hit and Run the Reason blog occasionally.
True. Who cares about racial controversy when we just got primo ranking? It only even occurs to me to wonder b/c a friend was under the impression that the flag controversy kasasizing us, making us national laughing stocks, whereas I was surprised that anyone might be paying attention.
Since it irks me when other people talk without reference, you can check here for an editorial on the subject (scroll down to "Philosophy and the Confederate flag"), or just search the reveille's site for "confederate flag".
Sullivan has excellent taste in award names.
I know (slightly) one of the authors of that letter.
Lotta buttheads quoted here. I particularly like the lawyer who points out that the First Amendment protects offensive speech--thus admitting that he's being offensive.
Via Matt's link:
"You take away our tradition and you take away our livelihood," he said.
Wtf?
I read John Cole (balloonjuice.com) on a fairly regular basis. I could do without his temper tantrums, but at least he's willing to call a spade a spade.
I also have a strange obsession with Betsy Newmark (betsyspage.blogspot.com). I think it's the way she manages to be so damned polite while arguing that people like me should be summarily executed.
One tailgater said he did not see how the flag could be offensive but that if black people find it offensive, they need to stop playing rap music containing profanities — which he finds offensive — before they complain about the flag.
The Confederate flag isn't racist; it's "heritage"—the heritage of racist fucks, but, you know, it's not the flag's fault, dude.
BTW, these are sweet quotes, Weiner.
Care to say who you know, Weiner? I've hung out with all those guys. We're 2 degrees apart!
And, yeah, kansasizing. As much as I worried over that word, you'd think I would've spelled it right.
My answer (to my question) would be John Cole as well (also Volokh), though I would modify "willing to call a spade a spade" with "usually." Also, he's sufficiently integrated into the righty blogs that I feel like reading him is good for keeping track of what they're talking about.
Jon Cog/g/b/burn was a good friend of my part-of-grad-school roommate; I met him a few times. A cool guy, as I remember, and recently I checked out his web page (I was applying for a job at LSU) and saw that he had a lot of pictures of cats, which is always a plus. Wouldn't be surprising if he doesn't remember me at all, though.
Re: the question in 5
That Medium Lobster guy over at Fafblog! is generally supportive of the Bush administration, and I usually find myself agreeing with a lot of what he writes.
JC is an interesting, but very weird, guy, and the one who actually wrote the editorial.
And considering all the budget cuts post-Katrina, you should probably count yourself lucky that you didn't come to LSU. (I'd say, "here", and in fact typed that and had to edit it, as I have now left BR.)
There are some reasonable writers on the right,* but not one drop of teh funny. At least not in the laughing-with-them sense.
* = excluding libertarians
(BTW, my objection to Sully is not so much his politics - aside from the "fifth column" bullshit - as it is his writing. It's like reading a neverending brochure for Andrew Sullivan, Contrarian Extraordinaire™.)
I find Cathy Seipp weirdly compelling at times. She's impossible, and I rarely agree with her about anything, but she can be amusingly bitchy. Like her description of "that third reptilian eyelid" here. Or her thoughts on self-help books. Or the way she said that cancer didn't make her a better person.
You forgot, you cad. I've had to raise little Ricky without a dime of child support.
I think email might have been the proper venue to ask Labs to help you raise your little Ricky.
Not that you didn't already count yourself lucky not to be at LSU. Sure, we have blackened alligator, but you have tumbleweeds and coyotes.
Good luck with that whole tenure thing. Want us to email your dept heads and let them know what a great commenter you are at the Mineshaft?
I'm not up for a few more years, Michael, but thanks for that kind offer.
Can we all agree that once Labs gets tenure, he has a moral obligation to signal his true identity by entitling a paper something like, "At the Mineshaft: A Moral Reading of [whatever]"? Especially if it's a really good paper?
I'll just save the draft, and update it when the time comes.
"To Whom It May Concern,"
I have known Dr. F Labs for years, and when I think of F. Labs, I always think to myself, that's one sumbitch who never fails to give you a reacharound, bless his heart...."
Hey, I thought 36 was for me. Labs, you cad! isn't it enough that you steal the bread from little Ricky's mouth, you also have to steal my letters of reference?)
(I'm not up for a while, either.)
I will be sure to include a thank-you footnote containing a sentence such as "I am also indebted to my friends at the Mineshaft, without whom I could not have plumbed these philosophical depths."
I put a note not unlike that one in a new publication. Don't bother looking for it, it isn't out yet. And by the time it is, you will have forgotten. (wavy fingers of magical forgetfulness)
I suppose it's pointless to ask what the topic was, so I'll just have to scan the contents of journals for the next few years looking for the name "slol ernr."
Andrew Sullivan's been rock solid on torture. It's sad to say but that's a damn rare sight to see on a genuinely conservative blog. Fuck, "libertarian" Volokh has long been aghast at the pernicious threat of terrorist habeas petitions.