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TPM AWARDS

                                                                                   SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN This weekend I was surfing as usual since I have no life and found this at TPM:Today we're announcing the categories in...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Eighth Canon & Courtesy

                                                      DOM IRRERA                                    CANONS OF ETHICS IN THE                                       WEBNETBLOGOSPHERE:                                 THE CASE OF THE AD HOMINEM                                                      ATTACK 8. Be courteous. There will be...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Seventh Canon & Armageddon

In March I wrote a series of posts discussing the Ethics of Blogging. Craig Crawford had set down ten rules for commenting on his web site and I knew that they were applicable in one manner or another to...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Sixth Canon & Setting Your Cites

I thought we might take some time to discuss exactly what a blog is. If we do not have an adequate understanding of what a main post is, we cannot discuss what a comment is. And if we cannot...
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DICK CHENEY RECEIVES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Today after much delay and fanfare, Richard Bruce Cheney accepted his Nobel Prize for Peace. Here are excerpts from his acceptance speech:   Ladies and gentlemen, I am truly awed by these proceedings and gratefully accept this highest of...
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JOHNNY CASH: How High's the Water Mama?

Johnny Cash 1932-2003Johnny Cash is a hero of mine; always was. Actually worked in Arkansas cotton fields as a little boy singing southern religious dirges as he worked.He tells the story of his Daddy keeping his mother informed as...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Fifth Canon & Terseness

                                                                                    ERIC ARTHUR BLAIROrwell, "Politics and the English Language":"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:1. What am I trying to say?2. What words will express it?3. What image or...
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NORTHCO-18: The Goddess of the Springs

Triptolemus standing between Demeter and Kore, relief from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens And welcome to the corporate sponsored republican sponsored golf tournament of the century featuring 14 of the world's top 23 golfers in a field of 18....
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: Odysseus, Spam & The Fourth Canon

     March 12, 2009, 8:01AM  Craig Crawford revisited our little group again yesterday and gave us more positive reinforcement for continuing our look at the universal rules of the newtwebblogosphere. And ever since I got those depends I was prepared...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD, Setting the Tone and the Third Canon of Ethics

                                                                          ATHENA                          THE GODDESS OF WISDOMThe third canon of ethics is of import. I mean if you had personally been accused...

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