House of Eratosthenes

Just updated my sidebar to include “Good Lieutenant” and his blog, Mein Blogovault. He was kind enough, at the beginning of this month, to link to one of my posts and then drone on a bit about what a good post it is, which is always a good thing.

I’ve included a few others, including my friend Stephen VanDyke over at Hammer of Truth who’s agitated about how long my posts are. VanDyke has redeemed himself in my eyes, partially, although I’m pretty sure the feeling isn’t mutual — he had a priceless entry about the author of “Why Mommy’s A Democrat.” I already made up my mind to include him, before I tripped across that, but it’s still good.

There are a lot of other folks who have been giving me much better treatment than Mr. VanDyke, and they all deserve mention. However, after my recent past screw-ups leaving people out I lack the confidence necessary to list them all over again. My recent post where I apologize to all of them probably includes, after several patchwork sessions, as complete a list as I may gather at this point. It also includes notes as to exactly why I’m including them, and you’ll notice some of them have something to do with topical things and others have to do with just-plain-interesting things. So I’ll just include a pointer down there.

Blogs that are linked here, are ranked. That’s kind of unusual. We use metals here to rank the blogs, like you do with “medals.” There is a reason for this. When you rank medals, like olympic medals, there is a sense of honor that is “vertical,” as in gold is better than silver, and there is a sense of honor that is “horizontal” — there is an important honor extended to each recipient, for simply having been included. And that’s why we do that here. A “bronze blog” is looked-upon with just as much of a sense of “You Belong Here” as any much-higher-ranked blog. Many of the bronze blogs are included because they took the time to read my stuff, and applied the necessary analytical power to figure out what they liked about it, and write about it. Bronze blogs are blogs just like me: some guy writing about stuff. You folks are doing the work that our news resources simply will not do.

A silver blog is, basically, a bronze blog that has either busted something wide open, or has acquired the resources needed to do such a thing or to make it more likely. Usually, that means starting a membership roll and handing out accounts to groups of trusted individuals, who in turn submit semi-regular columns. This applies to my friends at News Blog Central. Some of the silver blogs have achieved high visibility, being included in several other blog sidebars. Some of them are byproducts of other things the author is doing, as is the case with Hugh Hewitt.

A gold blog is something with extraordinarily high profile, visible all across the national stage. These blogs have achieved more fame than I, personally, would ever want. Malkin’s blog is gold. You meet strangers and talk about blogs, and those-in-the-know will immediately start talking about Glenn Reynolds or Chuck Johnson. That’s “gold” stuff, kind of like the New York Times of blogging, except with more common sense and less nepotism. If there’s a picture of you taking a crap or picking your nose, you kind of wouldn’t want that on a blog, but you really wouldn’t want it on a “gold” blog.

And a “platinum” blog is a resource to which I’ve formed an addiction bordering on the unhealthy. If I must go without these because I’m on a camping trip for four days, once I’m back I’m probably hitting these before I even take my shower. Eww. I roll out of bed, I click on these. These are FARK and Boortz, period. Nothing else. For now.

One more thing. I’m not here to get attention, and the blog is kind of dedicated to the idea about rambling away without excessive concern about who’s reading. We think, here, when you’re too worried about who’s paying attention, the stuff you say starts to make a little bit less sense than it otherwise would — that’s a prevailing theme that resurfaces often here. But when people take the trouble to link back to me, I give them as good a treatment as I possibly can. And hey, I like traffic as much as the next guy. So I’m thinking about you folks. Now you can link to my blog with some good fashion sense. Samples below, code in the new sidebar.

Have fun.

Update: Note to self: Next time, hit Holtie’s House by Peter Gympie, and his friend Miss Cellania. Don’t forget to tell the readers that some of Peter’s pictures are unsafe for work, if, that is, said readers work with a bunch of crybaby pussies.

Also, don’t forget Annoyances and Dislikes which is run by some girl, of some undetermined age and location, who’s generally pissed off and annoyed by the same things that annoy me. You are inspired to do this because of a plurality of entries, not the least among them being this one…

You can’t even bring a bible to school without someone crying because they don’t believe in God. Ok, you don’t believe in God, fine by me, but don’t try to make others put their beliefs under a blanket because you’re too sensitive to even see a cross, let alone a book with a cross on it. If I can handle people wearing satanic necklaces, or even having the satanic star in their signatures ONLINE,mind you, you can tolerate someone holding a bible in their hand. America has become too sensitive.

And this one about smug, snotty atheists…

Yeah, they know who they are. I don’t care if they’re athiests,but I do care that they have to foam at the mouth everytime someone mentions the word Christianity and make personal attacks at everyone who believes in God. These particular kind of athiests think that we’re weak because we believe in God. So I guess, having a belief is considered being weak then,right? Wrong, we all have something to believe in. Christian or not. You believe that there is no God,right? So does that make YOU weak as well? Think about it.

Fix the spelling mistake. You know which one.

Get Papa Knows in there. Seems like a good, sensible guy.

Also, be Pro-Victory.

Hey, thanks for listing me up.
- Rhapxodiac | 06/23/2006 @ 13:24
I love droning on!

🙂 Thanks for the linkage. You’re up as well!
- Good Lieutenant | 06/24/2006 @ 16:01
Sorry, I changed my url. http://sofakingpissed.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-hell-is-wrong-with-people-these.html#comments
- Rhapxodiac | 06/28/2006 @ 15:02

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