Hello new visitors — thanks for reading a few suddenly very popular articles! I hope all of you stick around.
However, I’d like to record one short note. This blog is not a “birther” blog. It’s 50% politics, 20% law, 20% science, and 10% miscellaneous. Categories #1 and #2 overlap with some frequency, and sweep in goings-on in the birthersphere as a consequence, but this is by no means a predominant topic (besides, my friends at Yes to Democracy do that better than I could). In fact, while I am proud of our “birther” coverage, I don’t think it’s the site’s best. Can I recommend some additional, more representative reading for you?
- The GOP’s health care talking points suggest that they’re the real “elitists.”
- In building his presidential image, Obama could learn from history. Really, really ancient history.
- NYU Law, despite being one of the most proudly liberal & compassionate institutions on the planet, hired a homophobe to teach human rights law. And she’s not really that bright, either.
- We’re not “post-racial” yet.
- The Constitution doesn’t enshrine laissez-faire, as Ron Paul & Glenn Beck imagine it to, but it does protect capitalism, generally.
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Ahhhh….the perils of blogging for traffic. If you talk about loonies, the loonies and their detractors will come.
Posted by Mike | July 16, 2009, 8:14 pmHAH! I’ll note that I never blog for traffic. I legitimately find these topics interesting. I’d probably bite my tongue a few more times than I do, but for the traffic, true.
Posted by ACG | July 16, 2009, 8:18 pmYour nose is growing….
Posted by Mike | July 16, 2009, 8:20 pmIt appears that much of your core readership does not share that interest of yours.
Posted by Steve | July 19, 2009, 1:03 pmNot a birther blog my ass. This is where I first heard about the whole thing, I’ve seen more people asking for a birth certificate on this site than anywhere else, and this high level of coverage has been going on for almost a year past the election. Face it.
Posted by Gotchaye | July 16, 2009, 11:28 pmWhat’s the other site you visit, comics.com? He responds to the silliness, true, and since there’s so much silliness out there the incidence level might feel high, but the birther crap is a DAILY talking point on many websites. Hell, I see it come up on Digg more than here.
Posted by John | July 17, 2009, 12:10 amWhats birther mean?
Posted by bullwhacker | July 17, 2009, 12:45 pmthe birth certificate appears damn near every day on blog sites!!
Posted by nancy | July 20, 2009, 2:12 pmoops, insert “issue” after certificate.
Posted by nancy | July 20, 2009, 2:13 pm