Subvert the Dominant Internet Link Hierarchy!- February 24, 2005 Update: I feel it's important to note that the one blog that got me into blogging in the first place was megnut. Meg certainly doesn't need any links to boost her page rank, but it should be noted that she is but one example of how women were instrumental in creating both the software and the phenomenon of blogging. Mena Trott is obviously another great example. Today's issue: women bloggers. Kevin Drum kicked it off. Backpedaled. I found out about it through Ezra. On his site I threw out.http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/subvert-dominant-internet-link.html To The East Side- February 24, 2005 Please update your links.http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/to-east-side.html Remaindered LinksThoughts- February 24, 2005 I'm still working through why it is that the president (and two of his press secretaries) knowingly and eagerly (and repeatedly in the case or Ari and Scotty) calling on a prostitute for a life-line during a press conference is not a story in these times. 'The family is looking into whether Thompson's cremated remains can be blasted out of a cannon, a wish the gun-loving writer often expressed, Brinkley said. "The optimal, best-case scenario is the ashes will be shot out of a cannon," he...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/remaindered-linksthoughts.html Miracle on Ice- February 22, 2005 25 years ago today was the Miracle on Ice. I was just over 3 at the time and yet it achieved iconic status for me as I grew up playing the game. In high school a friend of mine had a great poster that a gas station put out in 1980 to commemorate the game. I'm not sure if the bulk of the prose is original, but it really captures just how unbelievable the feat of beating the Soviet team was. Above the writing was the shot of Mike Ramsey (I think) with that look of total elation on his...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/miracle-on-ice.html Hunter Thompson is Dead- February 22, 2005 Update: See Steve Gillard (via James Wolcott) for an eloquent discussion of Thompson's legacy in print and online. Hunter Thompson is gone and I am poorer for it. While his most acclaimed work was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I am more partial (being a political junky) to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972, and another short work with great relevance to today's (or any) political climate: his eulogy of Richard Nixon: From Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994 HE WAS A CROOK by Hunter S....http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/hunter-thompson-is-dead.html Peggy Noonan Blesses Blogging- February 20, 2005 Nooners takes up the issue of blogging today. I join others (Dave, Matt) in generally praising the column. Nooners can't bring herself to actually mention a blogger that doesn't share in her ideology, but what is one to expect from opinion pages of the WSJ I do find amusing the dogged attempts by Peggy and Hewitt to pretend that the only blogs in existence are the 101st Fighting Keyboarders. Kos, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, the list of elephants in the room goes on, but &8212; ever...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/peggy-noonan-blesses-blogging.html Paging Harry Sinden- February 16, 2005 Is Harry Sinden now advising the NHL on its negotiating tactics Old Harry liked to use this strategy with Bruins free agents he didn't want to sign. He'd go back and forth with the agent for a while and then right before the player was eligible to declare free agency, he'd throw down a take-it or leave-it offer that he knew was unacceptable. Once the player had spurned to offer and declared free agency, he'd start a full PR blitz to blame the player for abandoning the fans of Boston. It...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/paging-harry-sinden.html Belaboring- February 11, 2005 Apropos my problems with Friedman and our current policy in Iraq, we have Lawrence Lessig talking about writing an early draft of the Georgian consitution. And second, that it captured beautifully the single most important thing that I learned from my years working on "constitutionalism" in Eastern Europe: That 90% of the challenge is to build a culture that respects the rule of law, and that practices it. A document doesn't build that culture. And no one has a formula &8212; either for...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/belaboring.html A Waste of Great Real Estate- February 11, 2005 Via Ezra (again) we have Tom Friedman. The text of this opinion piece tacks from the cogent to the bizarre and back faster than a ship navigating the Straight of Magellan. My education about the Middle East is very much in its infancy and yet I cannot help but feel that Friedman, for all his work in that area, is more clueless than I am. There will be a lot of trial and error in the months ahead. But this is a hugely important horizontal dialogue because if Iraqis can't forge a social...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/waste-of-great-real-estate.html Thrice as Nice- February 9, 2005 Exhuasted today after the Superbowl. The Pats won their third Superbowl in 4 years and I'm elated. I watch these games a little too closely and when I know I can't replay something (for instance, when we go over to a friend's apartment to watch the game) I watch all the more intensely. As you can imagine, watching a game with me is a real treat. Due to this rather over-intesnse style of watching a game, I am a great arm chair coach. And, as TMQ says, all my advice is guaranteed or your...http://levinson.blogspot.com/2005/02/thrice-as-nice.html |