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Wordpress likes to send out a year-end review to all their JetPack users. Most of it is routine statistics I can find anywhere, but a few items are amusing.On my busiest day, my most popular post was "Yet Another Tale of the Awful, Awful People at ICE". I think this line captures the essence of the post: The sad thing is that if she had freaked out and, say, gouged out one … [Read more...] about 2013 In Review

In keeping with tradition, I wanted my blog to have the most severe and over-the-top Terms & Conditions possible, with robust protection against spammers, lawsuits, and intellectual property theft.I could have engaged a lawyer to write them for me, or I could have researched it on the web and tried to write my own, but those options seemed to be too expensive and too … [Read more...] about New Terms and Conditions

The Popehat folks are far better at this sort of thing, but let me give it a try. I got this email with the subject "Content Partnership": Hey there Mark,My name is Sladen West and I wanted to discuss the possibility of some sort of content partnership with you and windypundit.com. I do a lot of writing in the automotive space and thought my articles could be a great fit … [Read more...] about In Which I Decline a Prospective Content Partnership

I've decided that running April Fools Day prank posts is not a good idea for me. I let Eric Turkewitz talk me into it last year, and the only people I fooled were my loyal readers. That's not the relationship I want to have with them. I don't expect readers to agree with me or even like me, but (except for obvious sarcasm or hyperbole) I want them to know I believe what I say … [Read more...] about No April Fools For Me

Here at Windypundit, 2012 was the year in which:The inevitable drug war deaths remained inevitable. I spoke up for sex workers, although, really, it was just a bunch of links. I became a friend of whores. I explained why criminal violence against the police is not the best response to criminal violence by the police. I showed what it looks like when police are … [Read more...] about 2012 in Review