De Link
I have, on several occasions, pissed off people and been uncerimoniously de-linked from their websites with malice aforethought.
That’s fine. I haven’t de-linked any of them because frankly, I’m not a six year old, and this is not a playground. And I still love and respect those folks, despite the fact that they won’t bother to admit they’re wrong despite having been proven wrong. Fuck ’em. Feed ’em fish heads. I’m not here looking for traffiic from anyone, if you like what you see and come back, fine. So there are several folks on my blogroll who have no return link. No biggie.
On the other hand, sometime you have to do some weeding, and this is a classic case.
Little green footballs has been slowly morphing into the Daily Kos for a while now, and until today I hadn’t experienced it for myself. No, I won’t link, but on the front page now, a post or two down is a piece on global warming deniers.
Look, you moron. The thermometer is five hundred years old. There have only been thermometers with any degree of accuracy for a hundred of those. Anything before that is a guess.
I had a pissing contest some ages ago with one Charles Fuller, who came here with this little gem of logic: Evolution is a theory. So is electricity, and yet when you flip the switch the lights go on.
This is facile on it’s face, because electrical theory can be tested over and over and over again in real time. Evolution cannot be tested in real time when it comes to humans, because we cannot travel back in time and see what the beginnings were and observe the results. The same is true of global warming/climate change. We have so little data about the actual temperature of the planet that we can only guess as to what it’s temp is supposed to be, and those guesses are by their very nature less accurate than the margin for allowable error.
The idiot at LGF and his commenters are yapping away about how we have cap and trade now (s02) and how it didn’t destroy business (wrong. Wrong in epic, heroic, olympian ways, look at the now almost nonexistent american steel industry) and why this would be any different (Because it is based on utter stupidity, and less gummint control is better than more).
So Buh Bye, LGF. Go fuck yourself with a cactus. Go pound sand up your collective asses, and while you’re at it, take a flying fuck at a rolling donut on a gravel driveway.
Update: Please welcome Joan of Argghh! to the blogroll. I read her blog daily, and it dawns on me that I always have to click on one of her comments to do so. I USED to have a link to her blog, I’m damned if I know why I don’t now.
Anyway, corrected.
13 comments Og | Uncategorized
Back in the Rathergate days, LGF was one of the major players in bringing that to light, and helping expose what needed to be exposed. Don’t know what happened to him since then. But the “Little Green Football” seems to be quite deflated, now relegated to the far corner of the yard, deposited there by one canine or another, no longer worth fetching.
What a disappointment. Never did link to LGF, but enjoyed some of the posts from the past.
Can’t argue with your decision, Og. I’d have done the same thing.
I stopped reading LGF some time ago. Charles has basically turned against everyone who made his blog one of the top ones. The Left used to refer to the site as Little Green Fascists, or Late German Fascists. They were spot on, but for the entirely wrong reasons. If you post a comment disagreeing with Charles, it’s the ban wagon for you. Can’t have dissention in the echo chamber.
Why doesn’t the scientific and logical Mr. LGF study sun spots for a while? He may just want to encourage more greenhouse gases. . . and soon.
LGF is one of those I referred to in my post about internecine and invidious infighting on the Right.
Of course, NOW we find out Charles Johnson is liberal. Oh well. Makes him fair game, I guess.
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Fuck him. I stopped reading him ages ago.
Og, I came to LGF later than most of your other commenters. I initially started reading ’cause I heard it was a thoughtful reasonably conservative site. But after a few weeks of reading I began to feel I was reading the daily kos or huff po.
Delinked him a couple of weeks ago myself. Definitely not worth the time to read anymore.
Mark, one thing I have to give him: Charles never claimed to be a conservative. Read anything he wrote before 9/11 if you want evidence of his real background.
The problem is that he didn’t have the audience then that he’s built since. Look at the number of comments on his early, pre-9/11 posts…in many cases there are none.
Most of his current readers have come on board in the last few years when he’s been supportive of the war effort and keeping tabs on radical Muslims. Undoubtedly the Rathergate exposure was his biggest claim to fame. But that was all after he switched gears and became, if not a conservative himself, at least a supporter of what were viewed as conservative causes.
Problem is, lately his dark roots are showing.
Mr. Johnson banned me from his site a bit over a year ago.
If I remember correctly, he and a posse of his loyal followers called me an “anti-semetic(sp?) jew hater”.
Apparently, they found my Easy Off oven cleaner humor… rude.
Oh, thanks, Og, for the blogroll enlistment. I never pay attention to whether or not someone has me on their roll unless someone clicks from a site and it shows up on my meter. I never know where I’ll be. . .
:o)
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Hey, clicky on the link above Og!
Looks like LGF is going the way Andrew Sullivan did a few years back.
You’re not the only one to De-link LGF – looks like some other big shooters did too…