Year: 2002
Um…That’s the Windy City… As in Chicago.
I guess any publicity is good publicity but did the Blog Report really have to link to my site with this tag? Is This Flatulence?? No It’s The Windy Pundit!!!… This is a serious site about serious issues, dammit! Sigh…Hello to you folks visiting from the Blog Report. I’m so sorry to disappoint you if… Read more
William Bennett Recants!
I couldn’t help noticing that William Bennett has just admitted that pretty much all the cultural concerns he’s voiced over the last decade have been wrong. The New York times asked 12 Americans for their views on “the most significant change the country has undergone in the year since Sept. 11.” Bennet’s response was that… Read more
Central Illinois Blogging Society Web Ring.
I’ve now joined the Central Illinois Blogging Society Web Ring run by Bill Dennis Apparently, he’s an actual journalist with, like, writing skills and everything. That’s right, people pay him for his writing. Not only that, he does real journalist stuff like cover events and interview people, bringing actual new facts to light. By comparison,… Read more
“The First Victims of the Perpetrators.”
As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I’m looking for interesting articles from that time. I previously recommended Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts’ column from the 12th. Another good one is Afghan-American Tamin Ansary’s widely-circulated article in Salon a few days later: We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.… Read more
Libya?
In a Spectator article on “The triumph of American values,” Mark Styne writes: A few weeks earlier, Libya was elected to chair the UN Human Rights Commission. Somebody tell me he’s kidding. He made that up, right? Read more