the purpose of thing

Your Humble Blogger is uninspired these days, so here are a few items about which I might have blogged:

• Matthew Yglesias, now blogging and playing right field for The Atlantic, blogs about Sturgeons Law and the Internet. “The crux of the matter is that heavy internet users are, almost by definition, people who've discovered feasible methods of tuning out the vast quantity of stuff they don't want to read on the internet and tuning in to the stuff they do want to read.” Emphasis his. It does make me even more cautious than I was before about introducing some of my older relatives to the Internet.
• Ezra Klein, still blogging and batting third for The American Prospect, talks about Immigration and the GOP without quite saying the thing as crudely as he implies. Essentially, in YHB’s view, we Democrats counter the frames the Republicans have hung around us (Dems hate the Bible, Dems hate the Midwest, Dems hate the military, Dems hate business) with the frames the Republicans should be wearing (Rs hate blacks, Rs hate Latinos, Rs hate women, Rs hate laborers). I must say, I think the ones about the Rs are true, which (a) makes it OK to use them and (2) is because I’m a D.
• Andrew Cline, blogger and sole proprietor at Rhetorica, states in a note called Publius no more? that “to be taken seriously, I think, demands stating your standards and stating your name.” As an pseudonymous blogger myself, I am starting to think that the cost of my own anonymity may outweigh the benefit. I’m not ready to abandon it, although as I state in my description of the blog thing, if any Gentle Reader doesn’t know my real name, and wants to, he or she is welcome to email me and ask. At any rate, if anyone is inclined to dismiss my arguments (such as they are) simply because they are presented anonymously, please contact me before doing so.
• I am tempted, when uninspired, to simply use a random text generator (such as the <a href="http://www.critters.org/bonsai.html"Bonsai Story Tree) to generate entries. Sadly such notes as

  So. Your Humble Blogger grew up as a Republican? Do you know we’re in the abstract. I don’t trust averages, and whatnot; I agree although it isn’t clear whether they suck, and they could look into the conversation—nappy-headed—symbolized rather prominently some lovely formal achievements, but the Magic Treehouse books I’ve been another shock-jock a while it But what they see things differently from is there well, Your Humble Blogger hearts New England Republican, he keeps on our nation, shame on our side, not completed as a benefit to “secure” New Jersey or would they are too easy. Often, in the second and third. Or even better, a news item like a video store paying many professors is a Girl Book, the shop, many of our democracy. And the US Attorneys, and whatnot. That is, this sort of that research which just barely manages just barely manages to play rough because they have had as undergraduates. I know the purpose of thing.

  or

  We don’t think that would he have a fairly high bar for somewhere else, it is left as a New York religio-Utopian millenarian commune as my position, yes? Good. Now, society predispose us Being first is only secondarily to keep it into Nothing, and his Vice-President are, in the M&A business.

  or

  Would it be for undergraduate experience, to European straight-haired slender beauty standards, and I don’t trust standardized tests, so to sustain that it fleshed out the quote from a Boy Book the sex of the newspapers couldn’t manage to be efficient to specific books, it start today, and indicate that donate specifically it was a mutual admiration society, and the way that powerful women to conform to read the undergraduate experience, to die in or near each other team were inversely correlated with chickens” in here, and she responded that my synagogue has a note Gentle Readers, pointing out the quote from a display for somewhere else, it all that research being about the workplace is the world before, but in the book of the “real” world before, but as an indication of the store clerk who wanted to publish or festered.

  or even

  This morning, though, I know I’ve blogged about fighting “and other rough stuff”. Hmm. I think she remembers Alice thing, because Alice seems to me started musing on preventing ballots if they came from, either, do not actual news, Mr. Imus and his Chevy, he doesn’t. Or demographics. Or the economy. But the alumni, I saying that the system that were profane, knew that their records as possible. We Try Harder but what was not a good idea for a Republican? Do you want to tell some brother-in-law, some funny bits in my mind, and saying that lives in my mind, and white society predispose us about comparative grammars. You see, it’s a motivation to read the stench of the sort of thing because Alice thing, because the Main Branch is there were a a Democratic Administration, the story, that it’s a hetaera, hiding from We had a few families, and the Administration should have to think Left Blogovia is whaling on a fundamental principle of thing was exploded long ago.

  are probably best read aloud.

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.