tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8194004623725148579..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Old LinksAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-27723530419338292732019-04-27T03:09:23.140-04:002019-04-27T03:09:23.140-04:00The NYTimes Editorial from July 2001, The Declinin...<i>The NYTimes Editorial from July 2001, The Declining Terrorist Threat.<br />Oh my. Whatever could have happened to the page?</i><br /><br />Turns out the NYT didn't deep six it, which is what The Independent did to the "Snowfalls are a thing of the past" article. It's still there.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/10/opinion/the-declining-terrorist-threat.html" rel="nofollow">The Declining Terrorist Threat.</a>RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88286823409348992192019-04-26T16:17:34.500-04:002019-04-26T16:17:34.500-04:00@ Donna B - I'm betting that the phrase is Ame...@ Donna B - I'm betting that the phrase is American (the Brits tend to use "Bess" or "Bet" for Elizabeth), over 100 years old, and there is no known specific Betsy. Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-41883385816946386112019-04-25T22:40:32.408-04:002019-04-25T22:40:32.408-04:00@ James - that sounds familiar, now that you menti...@ James - that sounds familiar, now that you mention it, but i can't remember the details.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51823911996601783412019-04-25T22:40:10.006-04:002019-04-25T22:40:10.006-04:00AVI, that's an accurate assessment for a certa...AVI, that's an accurate assessment for a certain slice of time -- and then it flipped to take-no-prisoners progressive/leftist/whatever. I haven't been to LGF since... early 2006, I think. My question marks are wondering why and how the dickens that happened. Perhaps it's one of those cases where they went so far right they ended up left? If I really cared, I'd go see if it still exists. Turns out, I don't care.<br /><br />There are some other blogs that I cared about more -- a few of them now part of pjmedia. One (not pjmedia) is where I found you in the comment section years ago. That site is active and was/is never left/right, but now it's often so off the wall that I'm uncomfortable there. I still check it occasionally, but haven't commented in years. Unlike when we commented there years ago, disagreeing opinions are not quite so equitably considered now. <br /><br />And that's one of the reasons I read and comment here. I can disagree with you and you will consider my opinion without making fun of me. If you discard said opinion, you do it ever so gently. That has resulted in me changing my mind about a few things. (OK, very few... but, still, you made me think.) <br /><br />Another reason I read here is that I look forward to what you'll post next. I like surprises and I've learned that even some of your sports posts are OK. But... dancing pianos? Heavens to Betsy!<br /><br />(who the hell is Betsy?)Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86242012176526365092019-04-25T22:11:16.806-04:002019-04-25T22:11:16.806-04:00Really vicious commenters indeed. Some of the pos...Really vicious commenters indeed. Some of the posts were interesting, but never ever click on the comments. I gave up on it after a little while and so can't testify myself, but I was told later that "conservative" wasn't a good description of the host, or at least not for long.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-3795232120235211052019-04-25T21:21:56.133-04:002019-04-25T21:21:56.133-04:00I haven't paid attention to LGF for years. My...I haven't paid attention to LGF for years. My recollection was that it was take-no-prisoners conservative with some really vicious commenters, but run by bright people.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-24541567479032361392019-04-25T19:30:21.293-04:002019-04-25T19:30:21.293-04:00Those "Guard Memos" were the thing that ...Those "Guard Memos" were the thing that introduced me to the blogosphere way back when. My boss sent me an email with a link to a Little Green Footballs post, which IIRC, linked to the Joseph Newcomer post above. That this was a forgery was clear to me since I had worked as a typesetter/proofreader/layout flunky for newspapers during the early 70s. While "cut and paste" is what it's called now, what we actually did was "cut and wax". Hot wax, nasty wax, but it wasn't permanent like paste. <br /><br />Then in the later 70s, I did some legal secretary work using some of the 'latest' in word processing -- Wang, Lanier, etc. Lanier was popular with lawyers and my knowledge of it got me temp jobs with older law firms well into the 1990s. <br /><br />So, even though MS Word existed in 1972, it wasn't widely used. It certainly wasn't used by the military.<br /><br />As for Little Green Footballs... ???Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51416876888324631402019-04-25T16:30:54.845-04:002019-04-25T16:30:54.845-04:00Regarding the 2004 election demographics, I found ...Regarding the 2004 election demographics, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/20/how_trump_won_--_conclusions_132846.html" rel="nofollow">I found this to be one of the more interesting pieces on voter demographics in 2016</a>by Sean Trend from RCP. It's the conclusion of a series (I didn't realize that) and makes some interesting points about the changing demography of the Democrat and Republican parties. The tie to 2004 - Hillary didn't suddenly lose rural/small town voters. They were already leaving the Democrats in the 1990s.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com