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- Is it just me ...
- Let me explain the concept of an "analogy."
- When the mainstream media does its job.
- One of these things is not like the other.
- Document the dumbassitude.
- And a pony.
- Take a deep breath. Smell that?
- Don't Worry Kids!
- Distractions
- What does that even mean?
- Because they really do need babysitting, that's why.
- You know it's coming.
- Thanks for coming, Stephen.
- Sunday Funnies.
- In twenty words or less ...
- Left hand, meet right hand.
- It's because they lie. All the time.
- When total douchebags blog.
- Kill him. Kill him dead.
- Who knew …
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- Left, right, left, right ...
- Oh la la …
- How stupid? Tom Lukiwski stupid, that's how stupid.
- Dear Harper Youth: Let's talk about "democracy," ...
- Democracy in action, baby.
- I'm just sayin' ...
- Saturday Morning Cartoons.
- Ignorant dumbass open thread.
- Cry, Stephen, ...
- Oooooooooooh ...
- I know! I know!
- When totally douchebaggy fuckwits blog.
- The lies of Stephen Harper.
- Dance, Big Daddy, dance.
- Document the dumbfuckitude.
- Oh, for fuck's sake, Stephen!
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
- Leaving a trail of urine wherever he goes ...
- Carthago delenda est.
- Show me your tits. Again and again and ...
- Free speech, motherfucker!
- What Adam Radwanski said.
- Document the screeching assholitude.
- How ... odd.
- Julie Morand Terrorism Watch: Day Two.
- Dear dumbfucks: Elections have consequences.
- Your lede of the week.
- By the way, Stephen, ...
- All politics, all the time.
- Attention Liberals
- Let The Kid Keep The Pony
- As Google slowly awakens to its task ...
- Just Awesome!
- You have the right to shut the hell up and take it.
- And you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny,...
- Um, yeah, but that's different.
- *Sigh*.
- A Vote To Rock!
- It's because I'm an evil prick, that's why.
- Ask a stupid question.
- And suddenly ...
- Apparently, it was dr. roy's turn ...
- Just because ...
- And that cloud? It looks just like an aborted fet...
- Hello? CDNBA? Best feminist blog?
- What kind of fuckery is this?
- Dear Canadian Blog Awards: I'm going to enjoy this.
- Fucking liberal media.
- But on the third hand ...
- Yeah, that sounds about right.
- How very Hunteresque of him.
- Your regular Denyseitude.
- Oh, dear ... that's gonna leave a mark.
- Dear Paul: Generalize much?
- Go fuck off.
- Sorry ... how did you spell your name again?
- Finally! A Movie Worth Seeing.
- That's good advice, Doc, I'd support that.
- ... and that's when reality slapped him in the fac...
- Dear CDNBA: Bite me. Again.
- If she were any less self-aware ...
- Conservative Clothing...
- Most Illogical
- Dear Kate: Shut the fuck up.
- Up is down, black is white.
- All the news …
- Sunday Funnies.
- Sunday Is For Cath-o-licks
- HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
- There's stupid, and there's Blogging Tory stupid.
- Somewhere ...
- What do we have for the even bigger losers, Johnny?
- They Spelled Ignatieff Wrong
- Janke's Cover Blown
- Today Is Sponsored By...
- Oh, please, dear God ...
- Ooooooh, snap!
- I am ninja cat ...
- How can we miss her if she won't go away?
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12 comments:
Yay! More blogs to boycott!
Hey, I'm down there in the cellar with ya (having clawed my way back from obscurity due to the switch to Wordpress).
So I ask (again)... How does "Marginalized Action Dinosaur" consistently rate so highly? Is it the ugly, poorly formatted, widget-busy format? The thoughtless, inane posts? The zillion links to every other right-wing nutjob site?
Trying to figure out the keys to "success" here... ;)
If you check the Alexa traffic details for some of those blog, some interesting things pop up:
Traffic from the Canada/US
Smalldeadanimals: 49%/39%
Fivefeetoffury: 44%/53%
Steyonline: 23%/70%
Ghostofaflea: 32%/48%
Girlontheright: 33%/54%
michaelgeist: 59%/14%
warrenkinsella: 88%/9%
jamesbow: 64%/24%
abandonedstuff: 74%/15%
redtory: 76%/14%
canadiancynic: 92%/(not recorded)
The wingnut blog traffic is dramatically inflated by the promotion they get from US wingnuts (and they get a lot, from high traffic sites; American progressives rarely mention Canadian blogs). If you're going to call something Canadian, there should probably be some control related to whom the blog appeals.
A good way to get the hit count up, for a short burst, might be to write posts suggesting the US do away with a few 1st and 2nd amendment rights, separate the head of state and head of executive into two separate roles, declare Spanish a second official language, let the South separate, free Puerto Rico from colonial rule, adopt the Metric System, etc. And then, drop by a few American wingnut sites and link-whore.
Just saying, but maybe if you focused more on your own thoughts and ideas instead of constantly responding to the idiot right you'd appeal to more people.
You seem to have a strange obsession with some of the most retarded people I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Are 12 year old bloggers really worth the pixels? I would never have stumbled on these morons if not for your site. You're helping spread their message. You could at least respond as to "why" they are morons instead of just constantly linking to their blogs and saying something like:
"Shorter blogging Tory does something stupid -link- "
You could at least respond as to "why" they are morons...
This is a blog dedicated to snark, not a consultation in preparation for the DSM-V.
Besides, it's 23 year-old undergrads who have to start explaining why these people are morons.
Actually, for me, it's not the ignorance. It's the narcissism and the conceit. The most astonishing thing about these boobs is the complete absence of any admission that they could ever wrong about anything, when in fact they're wrong about everything, all the time.
"Besides, it's 23 year-old undergrads who have to start explaining why these people are morons."
I'll assume that's a reference to me. I blog when I feel like it, it's not my job, it is less than a passing hobby. Nevertheless, I'd like to think I go on sufficient rants to explain why I think a particular person or opinion is moronic. One sentence posts with a link are just site plugs.
In any case, I agree with your statement that it is the lack of ability to introspect or be reflexive about your writing/opinions that disappoints me about the vast majority of posters, on all degrees of the political spectrum.
CC leads a mini-revue of artisto-scientistic ne'erdowells who give the rest of us lurkers a virtual pub table version of the Daily Show. They zing the neighbours in our neck of the woods who'd like everyone to live by condo-codes made up by 'Those Who Know Better Than The Rest Of Us Ungrateful Wretches'.
Every once in awhile the headliners fall off the wagon and find their heads in a serious hat, where they're fully capable and failingly human, but it's snark that's historically proven to deflate pomposity far faster than any serious 'analysis'.
Like John Stewart berated the so-called pundits who attempted to gotcha him on their show, he's an entertainer and *they're* the political experts, why aren't they talking to power in a serious manner? Why was it being left to him?
To the person so ably pointing out how serious analysis is badly needed to rationally oppose the wingnut stances, nothing is stopping a personage like yourself from doing just that. Go to. If it's good stuff, CC et co. have proven more than able to link to the righteous thinkers and promote them.
But pointing and laughing seems far more irritating to the souls Ti-Guy has rightly pointed out as being capable of ignoring facts and reality, so CC's barbed facetiousness has a proper place at the dissent table, as-it-has-ever-been-since-the-days-of-Greek-theatre-and-prose.
One sentence posts with a link are just site plugs.
I think this blog used to be more analytical, but I imagine, like the rest of us, it's just become repetitive and exhausting to explain why these people are like they are.
that disappoints me about the vast majority of posters, on all degrees of the political spectrum.
I disagree and I'm not arguing about it anymore. The Right is primitive. We've had 8 years of proof of exactly that (actually, Canada's had proof of that going back to the foundation of the Reform Party, but it took the Bush administration to bring that seed to full bloom). The downside to our political discourse is that Canadians are just not that accustomed to wringing humour out of these people. What they believe just isn't funny anymore and hasn't been since the Iraq invasion, which they supported, and at which point I stopped laughing.
Duly noted, and thanks for the great response. I agree snark has its place... I love the snark, but I wish psa would post more. Pretty much the reason I read the blog in the first place.
hi pearce, you are obviously a person of surpassing taste. i do what i can but life is pretty busy and i have pesky things to do. like earning a living and stuff. but i sure do appreciate the compliment.
Interesting stats.
"The zillion links to every other right-wing nutjob site?"
It doesn't hurt, that's for sure.
Ti-guy's analysis is bang on. The US is the path to grow if you're a Canadian progressive blog. The trick is to do it while maintaining progressive writing, and getting Americans to care. The easy route is to attract the ones who are stark raving mad and angry about "issues" like second languages, and immigration.
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