Change, for better or worse, just keeps happening. The blog
that charmed you yesterday is dormant today. The blog you never heard of
last week, is suddenly getting visits seven ways to Sunday. Or at least you’ve
suddenly just heard about it. So…
It’s purge time! Bend over, you constipated blogs!
The time has come to clear out links from The New York Crank
to the blogs and webpubs that aren’t doing much any more, and replace them with
some livelier venues.
So gone is Billionaires for Bush and its offspring,
Billionaires for Wealthcare. Their venomously ironic humor at the expense of
the selfish one percent was always refreshing, but the venom factory appears to
be all but out of business. Those spoofer “billionaires” haven’t published anything new, at least as of
this posting, since 2011.
Publish or perish, guys.
Speaking of which, the college professor who wrote Dear Barry, Respectfully Larry, is history on my blogroll. He’s a good friend and has been since my college days, but
you can’t put up one post a year and call your posting a blog. So farewell, at
least for now, Larry.
I’m also purging Bushtoll, because George W. Bush has already been flushed down the toilet bowl of civilization by
just about everybody, including his own party. Congratulations on all your good work, Bushtoll. But
goodbye.
Welcome newcomers
(to this blog’s blogroll, that is)
In the place of the goners I’m inserting some new political
and editorial g-spots.
I’m linking to – not the whole Crooks and Liars – but the Crooks and Liars Video Café, which at least as often as not displays the audio-visual buffoonery
of the batpoop-crazy right. There’s nothing like watching and hearing those right wing
lunatics foaming at the mouth in living color.
If you haven’t discovered Bad Attitudes, I encourage you to
click right over there and read these folks. I find their take on politics as
twisted and simpatico as my own. We could be parallel rails of a piece of
double helix DNA. (And you’re absolutely correct: I have no idea what I’m
talking about. But it sounds right.)
Although I don’t normally link to book websites, I feel that
you are missing something if you haven’t read the e-book HEIRESS STRANGLED IN MOLTEN CHOCOLATE AT NAZI SEX ORGY! A MEMOIR. And so, it remains the top link on
my list. The link above and on my blogroll gets you to the right place at Amazon.com although you can also buy it at the
I-Tunes Store (for your I-Pad, if you can find the damn link on your own), Barnes & Noble (for your Nook), and Smashwords.com for just about any electronic format.
Finally, a word to someone who appears to be the sole
remaining blogger on No-Pasaran.
Watch your focus, Erik.
Just plain watch it.
Look, I have nothing against linking with people whose
politics are diametrically opposed to my own. Short of employing spy satellites
and undercover operatives, reading what the other side says is the only
reliable way of gathering enemy intelligence.
But there are plenty of right wing blogs. I link to
No-Pasaran (which has never returned the favor) because I sometimes travel to
Europe, and in particular to Paris. The attraction of No-Pasaran was that if
anything bad was going on there, I’d know about it. And I’d know what
neighborhoods to put at the top of my “let's not wander around there this time”
list, such as St. Denis, north of Paris.
However, Joe Noori, and another partner seem to have
departed No-Pasaran, leaving behind one person whose attention is focusing more
and more on American issues rather than French issues. So No-Pasaran’s tenure
on my blogroll is getting a bit shaky. Watch it, Erik. I can replace you with a
link to France Soir or worse (for you) Le Monde, or – I know this is really
going to turn your stomach, Erik – Liberation.
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