remember irony?

[sisyphusshrugged]

Remember before irony died, when people started blogs and this guy called himself "Instapundit" and it caught on because of the irony implicit in announcing you were a pundit just because you said you were and how it really wasn't all that different than becoming a Pundit because someone or another decided to put you on TV or in the paper and you could just as easily be every bit as qualified as they were except that they had a forum and the "validation" of celebrity?

I miss irony. I thought I heard the stone roll away, but it may have been my imagination because lots of other people seem not to have noticed it.

On a completely different subject and upon reflection, I have decided that I have nothing in particular to say about the current controversy in the blogosphere over whether blogs written by women are unserious since not as many blogs link to them.

Did I mention that I miss irony?

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[snuh.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's in the genes to protect the hearth and home, to respond viciously to the enemies, to intruders, but not to Blog?

(warning - Ann *Goebbels* Coulter linkage - put on your tinfoil beanie before reading)

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's just the first gurgle of sludge going down the drain.

She even looked a little like Morton Downey Jr. before she got a pound or two of her face sliced off.

[snuh.livejournal.com]

Ann's parents: