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February 27, 2007
If You're Reading This, I Guess You're In My Vortex.
1. Ann Althouse publishes an op/ed in the New York Times about, among other things, political blogging, and in it, she uses herself and her blogging as an example.
2. The piece -- as op/eds are wont to do -- makes me think. I think some about what political blogging is, and how I perceive Ann's blogging, and whether there's a line between partisan and non-partisan political blogging, and whether that line is determined chiefly by motive, effect, or some combination of the two.
3. Being a blogger, I write these musings down about Ann's op/ed piece.
4. Ann blogs a note that I've commented on her op/ed and says that it's "funny to see [me] fall into the vortex." And a click reveals that the "vortex" Ann thinks I've fallen into is a vortex of "left-wing bloggers [who] really hate Ann Althouse" and who obsessively fact-check her every word, hoping to catch her in an error.
Wow.
All that from having read her New York Times op/ed and blogged a little about the ideas in it, expressing doubt that the world of political blogging can be divided in the way Ann suggests. And having volunteered that I like her blog a lot.
Vortex indeed.
Posted by Eric at February 27, 2007 2:55 PM
Comments
I had heard that blogging sometimes leads others to comment on your work.
Posted by: mrshl at February 27, 2007 6:25 PM
What do you call a malicious gossip that thinks that everyone that is thinking about them, or reading them, or looking at them is up to no good about them?
Apparently, you call that being creative and interesting.
Posted by: jerry at February 27, 2007 8:49 PM
What is the term for the exact opposite of "grace under pressure"? If there is none I suggest "althausian."
Few have as fine a talent for, upon being proven wrong, making things 10 times worse before the next cuppajoe is finished.
Posted by: dswift at February 27, 2007 10:09 PM
I like her blog a lot
And that moral failing and lapse of taste is why bad things like being criticized by Althouse keep happening to you.
Posted by: Mojo at February 27, 2007 10:51 PM
Falling into the Althouse Vortex? I thought Ann's comment was in jest.
ELM: I didn't.
Posted by: Peter Hoh at February 28, 2007 10:11 AM
Must...resist...Muller...vortex... Oh it's no use,
how could I possibly resist this blog's Carolinian (NAWTH Carolina but still) gravitational pull? Would that even be legal?
Posted by: Ann Bartow at February 28, 2007 10:36 PM