Looking Around

Long story short - doing a little traveling and touching a significant bit of American history along the way ... the perspective makes the coming and going of our daily headlines appear uninteresting and mostly unimportant. But they're there and there are plenty of reasons why they matter.

Richard Miniter takes a look inside the TNR / Beauchamp fiasco and talks to some people related to the story.

Crittenden weighs in on the whole Neiwert manly-men nonsense. I tried to look in on Neiwert's initial post but couldn't generate any enthusiasm for reading some liberal guy going on about masculinity when he reads like such a whiny little bitch. I mean, really, what's the point?

Neiwert: People who talk about masculinity — especially conservatives, who seem to obsess about it, but in a peculiarly juvenile way — have always seemed a little weird to me …

Jules: Hey, Neiwert, you want to be a real man … try having more kids.  One’s like a hobby.  That’s like boutique parenthood.

Michelle Malkin did an interview with Mitt Romney if you missed it.

And I see via Memeorandum some folks are still going on about Karl Rove .... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

And Real Clear Politics is doing something in or around its blog coverage which at least appears to mean starting a blog. I'll reserve judgment as I don't want to be overly harsh. I usually enjoy RCP, we'll see how it develops.

Blogging is becoming so co-opted in its more institutionalized forms, I'm increasingly unimpressed with much of the product.

Comments

[daveinboca]

One commenter to Confederate Yankee came up with this solecism:

"Yes, Beauchamp's articles may contain some untruths. They might be total fiction. But it doesn't matter, does it?"

Is it just me or doesn't that sound like Evan Thomas' lame excuse for Newsweak when the Duke Lacrosse stripper-lies surfaced?

"The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."

Sounds like the commenter was just the average CSJ graduate---cheating on his/her ethics exam.