Posted by
Cal on Friday, March 09, 2007 9:51:06 AM
Hmm, I’ve been tagged by PapaBryant. I’ll bite:
People who get tagged need to write a blog stating 6 weird things about themselves as well as state this rule clearly. In the end of the post, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names and links. Don't forget to leave a comment that says you are tagged in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
Well, I’ve got time for six self-points of interest:
1.) I’ve seen Weird Al Yankovic in concert twice (by the way, he’s touring again this summer, including 3 Wisconsin stops). (Get it? Weird?)
2.) In between my senior year and my move to Hillsdale in the fall, I’ve been doing janitorial & housekeeping work at a local business, where cleaning toilets might in fact better prepare me to clean out the intellectual & moral sewer that is liberalism than higher education will.
3.) I like ketchup, but not tomatoes.
4.) For a friend’s psychology project, I played a crazy old man in a cult-classic, pulse-pounding thriller entitled “Silence of the Cows.”
5.) I’m a member of a small minority that actually liked Jar Jar Binks.
6.) I’m a member of another minority (among the young, at least) that has no presence on Myspace or Facebook, and has no intention of starting any.
On another note, I know that my blogging’s been light lately, especially considering a couple major stories that have fired up the media. The reason is that I’ve been meaning to do a little behind-the-scenes work on the blog first, including a name change, so Ann Coulter’s CPAC snafu couldn’t have come at a worse time (I finally decided to make the changes now due to some technical annoyances that need solving). A brief summary of my opinion of the matter: Ann deserves criticism for it, it was stupid and pointless, but many on the Right are overreacting. As you’ll see in my article, I criticize the joke, but still maintain that Ann Coulter is a superb author and fearless pundit. Changing Coulter Nation’s name is not an attempt to distance myself from her (in fact, it’s tempting to leave the name in place solely as a sign of protest)—actually, I’ve never felt 100% right running my own blog using the name & popularity of another pundit. So when I come back, I guess I’ll just have to maintain my Coulter support by regularly citing her work.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see ya soon with coverage of Coultergate, the Libby verdict, recent Iraq opinions in the Reporter, and more!