January 26, 2009 · 2:14 pm
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Small Dumb Animals

Ignoble Prize Winner

What a maroon.

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16 Responses to Small Dumb Animals

  1. Mike
    January 26, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    They ought to turn it around now that they’ve dumped that blowhard Kristol…
    ;)

    Good Ole KKKate…always with the non-sequitors.

  2. Chet Scoville
    January 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    *blink blink*

  3. Ti-Guy
    January 26, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    I thought KKKate was linking to a report on the NYT’s declining fortunes. Turns out it was a link to a rambling post by some raging wingnut mediocrity screeching and screeching about how much he hates Paul Krugman.

    I bet it pisses little Miss Delisle off inordinately to see her beloved Republic go so socialist. Where’s she going to escape to now?

  4. Jymn
    January 26, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    I wish KKKate would just move to the States. Just get it over with. It’s killing her, and her followers, that she has to live in Canada. Just hates the place.

  5. redtory
    January 26, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Ha. That’s precisely what I assumed it to be as well and didn’t even bother clicking on the link. My bad.

    But then, it’s not like I missed anything. That’s the same plumb loco buffoon who said recently “Liberals will not admit it today, but we’re going to miss President Bush.”

  6. Scotian
    January 26, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    No wonder Kate doesn’t like Krugman, he exposes conservative (so called) economic rhetoric like tax cuts instead of spending being the way to deal wit this recession for the utter nonsense that it is, both in general and especially when interest rates are as low as they are currently. How dare Krugman actually show the conservative economic approach to be nothing but nonsense and gibberish? Let alone have the platform of as major a paper as the NYT to do it in?

    It is not like he wasn’t doesn’t this throughout the GWB years too after all, and we all know how much Kate and her cohorts just loved GWB in all his actions. They did (and still do I expect, I don’t visit there anymore given her reputation for abusing the information she has access to as a domain holder) after all consider him a great President instead of the total disaster he was on all fronts. Be they security, economic, social, political, and environmental GWB was horrendous and those like Krugman showed him as the Emperor without clothes a long time back.

    Poor Kate and company, those that actually work in the real world are now calling the shots down there (and hopefully soon back in this country as well) and thanks to conservative ideology being at the root of so many of the problems facing America and the world we have the additional bonus of it being massively discredited and those that supported it too. It is one of the few silver linings of the disaster that was Bushco and the dominance of the Straussians in Washington, and hopefully it starts to backsplash on the Straussian running our government currently and his gibberish and deceptions too.

  7. koby
    January 26, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    ha ha. I wonder if having a Nobel prize winning economist and great popularizer of economic ideas on staff helps the NYTimes bottom line. If I was to hazard a guess, I would say YES.

  8. Chet Scoville
    January 26, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Turns out it was a link to a rambling post by some raging wingnut mediocrity screeching and screeching about how much he hates Paul Krugman.

    So in other words, by someone who wouldn’t subscribe to the New York Times anyway, whether Krugman was writing for them or not.

  9. Werner Patels
    January 26, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    I don’t think the NYTimes is going broke. Yes, it is experiencing financial woes, just like everyone else. But it’ll be a cold day in hell before the NYTimes folds for good.

    Aside: Does anyone consider SDA an actual blog? To me it’s more like an old-fashioned message board. Kate never writes anything in her own words that is longer than, say, ten words. The rest is always “borrowed” content. How original is that?

    If anyone is going broke, it’s SDA — maybe not financially (there are way too many morons who lap up this stuff), but editorially, intellectually, etc. for sure.

    My own yardstick is this: a decent blog contains posts of around 300 words of original content (i.e., quotes and such don’t count). One-liners may serve a purpose sometimes, but generally they don’t constitute a blog post.

  10. redtory
    January 26, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Werner — It’s kind of like Atrios (Eschaton) in that way. I mean Duncan can just pop an “Open Thread” and get 175 comments, or do a Glenn Reynolds where the whole post consists of nothing more than “Heh” with a link. I’m guilty of the same from time to time (but not with the same popularity and resulting comments, obviously). Such “blogs” if you want to call them that are more like community things were the real action takes place in the comments and often times the subject of the thread is just a launching point or conversation starter.

    As for Kate, I heard her interviewed on some web radio program last year and she described herself as being more of a “cyber sherpa” (her term) rather than a conventional blogger per se.

  11. Scotian
    January 26, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    RT:

    You’d think then she would be far better at avoiding the intellectual and factual ravines and mountain cliffs she keeps falling over with her comments. Some “sherpa”ing there, even metaphorically. I would agree though she doesn’t really run a blog, more of a playpen for her commentators or an old style bbs operator than an actual blogger.

    WP:

    When you say 300 words original content, are you just saying that as a minimum threshold or also as the range for the maximum too? I am assuming the former but the way you wrote it the meaning could be taken either way and given I tend to be a long winded writer I wondered whether I also failed your definition from the other end of the scale from Kate as to whether I am a real blogger or not. Just curious, especially since my comments tend to be entirely original writing as well.

  12. redtory
    January 26, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Interesting that about 48% of her readers are from the USA and only 35% are from Canada.

    (Mine is 51% Canadian and 33% US readers.)

  13. counter-coulter
    January 27, 2009 at 6:56 am

    Interesting that about 48% of her readers are from the USA and only 35% are from Canada.

    (Mine is 51% Canadian and 33% US readers.)

    Maybe it has to do with the posting material? You do seem to cover more Canadian politics than American.

    Although I can’t say for certain what SDA’s percentages are since I haven’t been over there in quite some time — honestly RT, I don’t know how you can stand wading in that fetid swamp.

  14. Aeneas the Younger
    January 27, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Why does a Redneck chick from Buttfuck, SK care so much about the US and US politics?

  15. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 7:24 am

    As for Kate, I heard her interviewed on some web radio program last year and she described herself as being more of a “cyber sherpa”

    Heh. I remember that…delusions of grandeur much? Anyway, she’s the kind of sherpa who leads the expedition right off a cliff.

    Maybe it has to do with the posting material? You do seem to cover more Canadian politics than American.

    There’s more to it than that. I read a lot of American progressive blogs and it’s vanishingly rare that they’ll link to a Canadian blogger. Why would they? Canadian issues per se don’t interest Americans, our politics are boring compared to the USA’s, and it’s not like American progressives need to learn anything new from Canadians. On the the other hand, wingnut American bloggers (and there are hundreds of thousands of them) link to KKKate all the time, since quite often she provides them with “proof” (wingnut proof, mind you) that Canada really is a socialist dystopia.

    It’s the nature of business in Canada that big money relies are marketing to America. It only becomes revolting when it involves cultural products.

  16. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 7:30 am

    C-C — I do a lot less “wading” in the swamp than used to be the case. I just can’t stand it.

    The horror… the horror.

    But aside from that, I just find them relentlessly boring for the most part.

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