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By: Smantix

Smantix — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:08:16 +0000

As pro-football is on Sunday, it’s always a coin toss and I’m prone to getting increasingly lyrical the closer to .08 I get. Go too far and I can only liken it to watching a soliloquy from a drunk thesaurus.

But if I let the Titans dictate my drinking schedule, I’d still be under the bridge trying to find a newspaper to use as a blanket.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:46:57 +0000

Gee Smantix…you have been awfully eloquent today…

Put that bottle away on Sundays, do ya?

By: Sharon Cobb

Sharon Cobb — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:05:06 +0000

Well, crap. I had to Google Icarus.
Don’t you just love irony?

By: Smantix

Smantix — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:43:31 +0000

Don’t sell Google short. Nowadays anyone can seem like they know a lot about a subject they knew nothing about 10 minutes ago.

However, “surface smart” only works on other people whose depth can be measured in the deep end of a coffee saucer. And linking to other people’s opinions while not offering any serious ones of your own will only go so far.

I’m in no rush though. I’ve seen the mighty rise and I’m sure before all is said and done that I’ll see the mighty come hurdling back to Earth. In these times, Icarus will blame global warming.

By: Sharon Cobb

Sharon Cobb — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:48:52 +0000

Smantix,
You’re talking to the wrong person when it comes to making friends, at least in the blog world. I do fine in the *real* world, but I have discovered I am deeply disliked by so called liberals, some who have never even had a conversation with me, for things that aren’t even close to being based in reality. (Insert joke–Isn’t that just like a liberal)
My background is in all forms of journalism and working in politics. Because I am old,(49) I’ve been doing this for 30 years and have always enjoyed a good relationship with other professionals of all political leanings. I could do an interview with a staunch conservative, then we’d go hang out after the interview. The big boyz and girlz still do that. If you think Chris Wallace and Bill Clinton didn’t break bread together after the interview, you’re probably wrong.
But some in the blog world in Tennessee are like high school kids with credit cards. It’s pathetic. It also makes it harder for the many bloggers who are actually trying to do some real citizen journalism and who actually check their facts and sources. The good ones get overshadowed by a group of cyber bullies who think they own the Tennessee blog world when none of them have actually held a job in journalism or in politics, and they hate those of us who have because they are part of this new medium, and people like me are the dinasours with nothing to contribute.
Uh…you think you hit a raw nerve with me on this one?
So yeah. I’m the asshole. I’m the bad guy because I actually go out and get the stories instead of sitting around whining, and I have a good relationship with conservatives–the latter being far worse than anything else they can imagine, and they do have quite an imagination. I suppose the only things worse to many of them is that I am pro Israel. Of course, not one of them could give you the history of Israel and the Palestinian people. If you were to ask one of them about the Ottoman Empire, I’m sure they would say they have a lovely ottoman in their livingroom.

By: Smantix

Smantix — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:52:52 +0000

You’ll have to teach me the secret to making friends Sharon. I’m afraid I just don’t have what it takes.

Is it “flattery gets you everywhere”? Cause I’ve always been real bad at that one. I throw around praise like manhole covers.

By: Sharon Cobb

Sharon Cobb — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:23:05 +0000

Smantix,
I didn’t always like what you wrote…sometimes I still don’t. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t always thought you were a great writer. I think that was the first thing I ever said to you when we met.
There’s a difference.
Secondly, and much more of an epiphany for me and not so much to do with you specifically, during my tenure as a blogger I discovered some conservatives are much more tolerant than some liberals. That was an eye opener, to say the least. Look at some of the stupidity and unprofessionalism in the TN blog world. We both know where most of it comes from. It took me some time to learn. Hey, I never claimed to be a brain surgeon!
Billy–lol.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:20:26 +0000

Navin Johnson never looked so right in the sidebar.

By: Stop The ACLU

Stop The ACLU — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:59:44 +0000

Sunday Funnies…

image courtesy of faithmouse
Scrappleface:Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfre Smell.
IMAO finds a new Skynard fan!
Point Five reports on a giant spinach salad buffet sponsored by the Reality Based Community.
Right Jokester: Yo! You, listen up!…

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:41:42 +0000

Sharon,

You aren’t that far from moving away from the dark side. Come to the light…the light…the light…