Don’t know if I ever mentioned the addictiveness of sitemeter. Want to know what browsers your visitors are using? From where on Earth they’re visiting? You can scan the time spent at the site (we have relatively long visits, which probably reflects that our readers like to argue with each other), page views versus unique visits and other arcane technotrivia.
For example, this morning I noticed that a visitor came to us through this Netscape search (not necessarily work-safe). Maybe not my first choice for topping a list, but why look a gift horse in the mouth? Hop over there and click back to here (we’re near the bottom at the moment) and maybe we’ll make it to the top.
Chat about whatever.
Redleg
That visitor was probably Dan Riehle, who seems to have a real penchant for cocksucking.
ThymeZone
It was probably Darrell doing some genealogical research.
capelza
Speaking of cock sucking…(I blush)…how about that Ted Haggard? Heh.
capelza
Never mind..John beat me to it…but I’m still blushing.
Ned R.
Right now I’m in a perfect state of mind because I’m listening to Daft Punk’s stellar set from Coachella earlier this year. And last night I was listening to the Frogs from a rehearsal for a show opening for the Smashing Pumpkins back in 1997, in which the Frogs covered various Pumpkins songs via creative medleys, such as the heard-to-be-believed “Silverf**k/Violet/Smells Like Teen Spirit/Today/Baba O’Riley/Yer Blues.” It is therefore a grand day to be alive. And then there’s Borat!
Salty Party Snax
Rush Limbaugh is criticizing Ted Haggard today for his “low tastes” in men and drugs.
Rush prefers prescription-grade Oxycontin and young boys in the Dominican Republic, not trailer-park meth and 49 year old gay male hookers.
Bombadil
What a snob!
BlogReeder
Since this is an open thread, I’d like to ask what’s the big deal with the balance of trade? Why are we so concerned that another country match us dollar for dollar? I don’t get it.
jaime
I’ve always been more of a cake man myself.
srv
Hey Tim, why don’t y’all figure out what’s wrong with your site rather than watch us?
Response/timeouts has been very slow this week. Several errors this morning. Wherever you see multiple postings from different posters, it means they’ve given up and tried again. So I know I’m not the only one.
jcricket
Besides the revelations about our blithe dissemination of atomic bomb making plans (which also prove that the last time Saddam had any nuclear capacities was before the first Persian Gulf War), we have the following Iraq related news in the past two days alone:
1) The firing of the person responsible for government oversight of contractors in Iraq, thus solving all the corruption and fraud problems, right?
2) The abandoning of an American soldier in Iraq, thus solving the problem of finding the soldier, right?
3) 3) The story of a suicide of one of Americaâs female soldiers, precipitated by the callous treatment and denials of her superior officers. After she refused to torture Iraqis alongside other Americans troops, and brought the evidence of torture to her superiors, she was merely re-assigned and told all the evidence of the torture had been destroyed. This eliminates the problem of us torturing people, right?
4) 35 dead Iraqi civilians yesterday and another 56 bodies today, thus solving the problem of keeping those people safe, right?
Heckuva job, Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney.
My outrage-meter has been pegged at 10 for quite some time now, and yet every day a new piece of evidence comes and pushes it a little farther to the right. Hating this administration is not irrational. It is the logical result of their actions. Anything less means you’re not paying attention.
jcricket
I’ve heard the rumor about the Dominican Republican before, but where’s the evidence. I can’t wait until we find out about the relationship between Melhman and Gannon, or Drudge and Melhman or Rush and some underage Thai/Dominican prostitutes.
You just know it’s out there somewhere.
How many days before Larry Craig and Charlie Crist are more formally outed?
DougJ
Don’t get me started. I check mine 6 times a day minimum.
skip
Damn, the Big East showed me some football last night. That was the real deal. The teams that left for the ACC don’t look so brilliant right now.
The same goes twice for Basketball, And there it’s not just Louisville. Marquette impresses me, and Cincy and De Paul will be back.
Tim F.
The Tuesday/Wednesday traffic really hammered our servers. The servers might be taking their time to get back in fighting form, or it could be something else. Dunno, I’m just the coblogger.
DougJ
Here’s my favorite google query that led to my blog.
I think Mac Buckets would be proud.
Punchy
What do you expect from Bra and Panties Publishing? The webhost is decidedly right-leaning, and it probably serves their ends to stick a fork in the motherboard every time some Evany’s decision to engage in crackhead pole-smoking becomes public.
I’m betting there were very few server “gliches” the day Kerry said that stupid shit…
ThymeZone
The crashes have gone from occasional to daily and predictable. Is it PJ? I was getting weird (database) errors from what appeared to be a server in California.
Chuck Butcher
Yes, that was an odd search result. What evades me is the links to my crazy left site from Balloonjuice. I do admit there seems to be a bit of a leftward tilt here. I bet there’s a way to get John back on the reservation, I’ll try this:
National Health Care, yes, single payer system with opt for more private coverage (just so the rich don’t have to suffer with the peons). I will make my argument: We already have a bastardized form of it, the privately insureds cover all uninsured and under-insured with their premiums, the only caveate is that multiple insurers get to make profit on policies. C’mon John, a distraction from the Republican melt-down. ;)
Bombadil
Gotta be Pelosi.
Pb
jcricket,
Yeah, but what about the Saddam Hussein verdict, which we may or may not have by Nov. 5th? Freedom is on the march, baby, and we’re turning the corner–that’s what happens when you stay the course *and* adapt to win!
Punchy
I bet they postpone, when they realize the verdict (guilty, and death by execution…and we need to “wait” until Nov. 5th to “be told” this???) will cause Iraq to basically explode. I foresee Sunnis just going full-bore…300+ carbombs…mosques get 86’d, etc…
All of this on Monday nite news, the day before the election. They’d be insane to do this…
jcricket
Pb, I think we’re it’s clear that Bush & co. want to hasten the appearance of the “Hypocalypse” – that’s the time when the level of hypocrisy in the world has risen so high that god pulls a “Noah and the Flood part II” on all of us.
Hypocrisy is on the march, and freedom’s just another word for something or other. I forgot already.
jcricket
You lost me at “when they realize”…
I picked you up again when you said
Bzzt. Please rephrase your answer in the form of a statement.
Dave
I wonder what this place would be like as a group blog along the lines of Kos, myDD or Redstate.
As far as I can tell this is one of the more unique blogs out there. John and Tim I’d imagine disagree on more issues than they agree on. The comentariate is covers a pretty broad spectrum as well. From liberals to true conservative to trolling wing nuts.
Just a thought.
Krista
Dave, that would require us to have original thoughts, analysis, and fact-checking. It’s so much easier just to argue with each other, share in-jokes, and zing each other with pithy comments.
Tsulagi
If you like dark humor, I kind of liked this opening yesterday on the Today in Iraq blogâŠ
They followed withâŠ
They continued with a shitload more “benefits” for the day in Baghdad and other parts of the country. Stay the course.
Punchy
Suck me. ;)
Krista
That was pithiful…
Dave
Darrell Says:
I see your point.
Punchy
Ts, you forgot to mention that EIGHT SOLIDERS were KIA today. 8 funerals on or around Election Day. How fucked up is this going to become?
I still cannot wrap my head around 8 troops killed, and it’s NOWHERE to be found on many online news services.
Punchy
I wasn’t feeling loquacious….verbose…garrulous, nor wordsmithy.More…aphoristic…compendious…epigrammatic…laconic, even. (I really need to stop reading the dictionary)
Richard Bottoms
Who Cares What You Think: The Movie
The Other Steve
I just ordered me two pounds of dutch double salt licorice.
Ummmm… goodness….
Krista
TOS: Oh my goodness, you like that stuff? I could not get over the Dutch obsession with salt — nephrologists over there must just be swamped with work.
Baby Jane
If anyone likes the Darrell piehole stuffing script, here’s a modified version of Daniel Martin’s killfile Greasemonkey script that works at some other places including haloscan. You can get it here:
http://www.mysharefile.com/v/8798839/2_1_killfile.user.js.html
The default behavior of killfile is to just remove the trollspeak, but I added a trollSays var that replaces the nonsense with “I Like Pie!” But, it can easily be changed to whatever baked goods you like.
The original script wasn’t working with AmericaBlog’s customized haloscan formatting, so I fixed that, and I also disabled the auto update feature so these mods wouldn’t be written over.
The original killfile script can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4107
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
Can we send Richard Perle to Gitmo now? His detraction of the war effort is objectively pro-Saddam.
ThymeZone
Let’s test our timestamp, TAFKAG.
That will tell us what kind of bloggy day we’re going to have here in PJ world after yesterday’s exciting crash.
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
This is 8:49 am, by my reckoning. That’s EST, though. Not sure how that affects things.
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
Looks like that one worked, anyhoo.
I like pie!
The Other Steve
If you like pie, you will definately like Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Although the southerners are going to complain that Borat hates America. :-)
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
Never sell your grandkid for less than 2 gallons of insecticide.
To do so would not only be unAmerican, it would be inhumane.
ThymeZone
When PJ goes psycho and starts putting future timestamps on posts, you are done posting. The spam filter will block you until the latest timestamp on your posts passes into history.
That’s why there haven’t been any new posts here for about twelve hours overnight.
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
So, there’s some kind of time machine that tells me what I’ll be writing in the future? Is that how this works?
Sorry, I just had a beer, and I haven’t slept in 2 days so that made me pretty woozy. For all intents and purposes, I am drunk, and I intend to post accordingly.
Scavenging from the past to feed the voracious post-monsters of the future- I feel a dystopia coming on. Or is that dyspepsia? Please excuse me.
ThymeZone
God bless you, man. You are living my dream. I will live vicariously through you today.
I can’t fucking drink, my innards don’t process the chemical that well any more.
Once in a while I succumb to the urge, but then I pay for it later.
The Asshole Formerly Known as GOP4Me
I only had one beer. Most of this is a fatigue high.
If you want to experience something similar, check out an oxygen bar. Or, do whippets. Those were fun, if I remember correctly from when I was 18 years old.
Well, at least your “urges” don’t include jeopardizing your position in the national evangelical movement by purchasing meth from gay prostitutes.
Shit, now that I think about it, that just SOUNDS hilarious. Is someone seriously going to try and argue that the GOP hasn’t been run by spoofs since at least 1998 or so?
Fuck it, I’m gonna go have another beer. That’ll see me through to punching holes in the wall and vomiting on the carpet, at this rate. Wish me luck.
BlogReeder
Where’d you get your information?
That Guy
Last I checked, those fancy GEO-IP algorithms put me in Kansas City. But I’m not in Kansas City. This comment is coming from inside the house!
SPIIDERWEBâą
Sitemeter is addictive. No doubt. I often click on the referral site to see if I can determine why someone would be at “mylifewithtoads” and somehow end up on my site. Its pure Agatha Christy.