Typical blogging day

This just about sums up the average day for a blogger! 😆

Hat tip: Glenn

11 Responses to "Typical blogging day"

Jim says:

October 18, 2005 at 5:31 pm

I saw that earlier via a link at Ann Althouse’s site. He only left out one key item – Delete Spam, Delete Spam, Delete Spam . . .

😉
Sister Toldjah says:

October 18, 2005 at 5:51 pm

LOL! So true 🙂
Dana R. Pico says:

October 18, 2005 at 8:00 pm

Ahhh, if only it were that simple! he left out:

1- Get up at 5:00 AM
2- Brush teeth, insert contacts, take shower, get dressed and go to work!
3- Come home eleven hours later, and wonder if you have either the strength or the imagination to post something erudite or witty.
4 Decide that you don’t, and go to bed.
Jack Deth says:

October 18, 2005 at 8:03 pm

Mr’s Solove’s “Typical Day” is one of the many reasons I prefer to surf many Blogs and Forums and leave the odd, errant post.

I never knew that curiosity about one’s place in the Blogosphere took so much time and continuous checking.

Just Blog!

Jack.
Denise says:

October 18, 2005 at 9:54 pm

ST – I appreciate all the hard work you put into creating this successful blog. Nevermind the MSM. I come here for the top stories. So thank you!
dug says:

October 19, 2005 at 12:50 pm

ST,

I just glanced back at yeserday’s discussion and noticed that you had asked me a question as to whether I was a disgruntled Republican or a conservative Democrat. Sorry I failed to reply – I thought you had asked me to leave the discussion and so I went back to work.

The answer is that I WAS an independent until about four years ago, but now I’m a Democrat. I hated having to pick a side in a two party system, but I feel the current GOP forced me to choose sides against them. I was a McCainiac back in 99 and eagerly followed his progress in the Republican primaries. When I saw what the Bush team did to him I realized that Bush was utterly lacking in honor or decency when power was at stake.

As to whether I’m conservative or not, I guess it depends who I’m being compared to. I usually describe myself as a liberal, but that mainly refers to social issues. On ecomomic issues I see myself as a conservative, though I’m not a supply-sider. I do believe in limited, pay as you go government. Deficits and soaring national debt drive me crazy. I may be persuadable on a flat tax though.

And I supported the Iraq war even though I never bought the WMD line for a second. I hate vicious dictators, so I saw no reason to fight the war. My only mistake was in assuming that Bush would be even half the leader his father was and exercise diplomacy while executing the war with a sufficient number of troops to secure the peace.

So if you want to call me a Bush-hating liberal, you’d be 100% correct. But my hatred of that man stems from intense patriotism. I cannot love my country and the man who’s undermining it at the same time.

Sorry about the rant. Just thought I’d give you the full picture since you asked.

dug

P.S. I hate Chomsky too! So we do agree on something. I also hate Michael Moore, Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly. Shreikers and blowhards, every one of them.
Sister Toldjah says:

October 20, 2005 at 2:43 pm

dug, thanks for clarifying – but if I may ask, I’m not sure why you stopped being an Independent and instead turned to the Democrats. Sounds to me like you’re not too fond of either party – so why choose one over the other? Did your philosophy at some point change so much that you felt you had more in common with Dems than Reps? I’m just trying to understand because I know when I went from D to R, it wasn’t because I was frustrated with the D’s. It was because I’d had a change occur in how I viewed most issues.

I just don’t understand how, for example, a disgruntled R could go to the D’s if the R is simply fed up with the R’s not living up to their promises. Unless you (general you) have had a major philosphical change and feel that one party is more in line with your views than the other, switching out of frustration because your own party isn’t fulfilling their promises of smaller gov’t, etc doesn’t make sense to me – you either stay in the party to try and make a difference or you move to a party like the Independents who have a big mixture of beliefs.

I have seen in the past a few R’s that switched to the D’s because they were upset at the fact that the R’s promised a smaller more fiscally responsible gov’t but didn’t deliver. Considering the D’s truly are pro big gov’t, moving into their camp just seemed to me to be choosing the other side of the same coin.
dug says:

October 21, 2005 at 11:49 am

Saying that Dems are pro big government is such a pot/kettle statement that R’s only get away with it anymore in blog echo chambers. But don’t take my word for it:

Here’s a Reason article for you.

The GOP is great on theory, but when the rubber meets the road, they will always be for big govt which legislates for the highest bidder. Add to that their insistence on prying into the private lives of citizens in order to satisfy their religious views and the choice is obvious.
Sister Toldjah says:

October 21, 2005 at 11:58 am

So IOW, it wasn’t really being disgruntled with Republicans that caused you to leave the party, you left because of philosophical differences.

On big government conservatives, yes they do exist but I guarantee you there are many more small govt conservatives than there are small govt liberals. But (again) I’m not quite sure what bothers you about “big govt” either way because you’ve made it clear that you support a party that makes no bones about their support for bigger gov’t (which puts you in the pot/kettle camp as well), as opposed to a party that has suspended the small gov’t belief for the time being because the Republican president in office doesn’t believe in smaller govt.

The reasons for your switch have baffled me. Initially, I thought you switched simply because Republicans weren’t, well, acting like Republicans (fiscal responsiblity, small govt). Afterall, you went to the Independents for a bit rather than switching to the Democratic party. But now it seems like your switch had little to do with your unhappiness with Republicans and more to do with the fact perhaps you came to the conclusion that your ideological lines fall more in line along the Democratic side rather than the Republican one, with an emphasis on social issues rather than economic ones. Am I right?
dug says:

October 21, 2005 at 12:48 pm

You probably are correct. The social issues are very important to me. I think we may have different ideas as to where government should be limited. I’m not Libertarian because I think that government can run programs which improve the lives of its citizens. Social Security would be a prime example.

I’m curious though, when you say that Dems are pro big govt, what are you basing that on? I’m not trying to ask in a snide way here – It was Clinton who famously said “The era of big government is over.” And I think that before the R’s decided to subject him to a multi-million dollar investigation in search of a crime and then settled on lying about adultery, the combination of a R Congress and D President worked quite well. I agree with this assessment from the Cato Institute.

In the end, what I yearn for is more leaders, of either party, in the mold of McCain. I don’t agree with him on many individual issues, but he has proven his integrity and patriotism again and again.
Sister Toldjah says:

October 22, 2005 at 9:16 pm

Don’t kid yourself by thinking Clinton was for smaller government. He wasn’t. The R Congress kept him and (and the Ds in Congress) from going over board on pork projects (that’s not to say a lot of pork didn’t get approved by Congress in the 90s). Clinton was also pro heavy regulation on business (big and small) and the environment (for starters) although it was his SEC that paved the way for the Enron type scandals that we saw blow up the first year of W’s presidency. I could write a very lengthy post to expand on my answer and may one day.

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