http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ en-us matt@mattwelch.com 2004-10-01T13:44:21-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_26.html Let's Try a New Test! Jeeblus, this has been a technical nightmare!... 2778@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-10-01T13:44:21-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_26.html OK, I Think This 'Web-log' Might Work Now... 1996@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-27T12:30:52-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html The Magic Castle, and the PMS Adventure Project: Two good ideas in one! Though I've heard the Rustic now charges weekend rates, so the hell with them. UPDATE: Testing, testing. Really: TESTING.... 1995@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T14:41:15-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Ruffalo Bellhorn? Eric Neel's got a funny column today, naming the Page 2 All-Star team (with references to Courtney Love, Mick and Keith, and others), and including this bit: Second base: Mark Bellhorn, Boston Red Sox. I like the 'burns... 1994@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T14:19:22-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Little Green Apples? That's what Charles Johnson's site was called just now by LA Weekly columnist John Powers, in a skeptical-but-positive commentary about weblogs on NPR's Fresh Air. My source claims Powers also said "Matt Dredge," but I didn't hear... 1993@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T14:05:15-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html About Allawi: Layne's link-filled take.... 1992@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T13:48:57-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Geography as Political Destiny? Cathy Seipp explains, after a fashion, how she arrived at her conservatism (or more precisely, at her awareness of liberal coccoonism), in large part because of her upbringing & revolt against white-bread Los Alamitos, which proved... 1991@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T11:13:38-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Yeah, That's the Ticket! Journalism's in a crisis! Dan Rather's fonts, etc.! Everybody's talking about it! Like the University of Alabama's Edward Mullins: American journalism could use a good dose of reform, and it won't come from New York, Los... 1990@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-23T10:43:12-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html 'Israel's present may be our future. Best get used to it now': Anyone else notice how positively morose some warhawks are, when imagining America's future? You'll find an even gloomier prognosis talking privately with Roger Simon (who, like Totten, I'll... 1989@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-22T23:45:56-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Dept. of Great Lead Paragraphs: Sure, it's a non-journalistic weblog entry, with hyper-personal details about various weddings, but it's just nice to read some funny, lively writing in a season when clicking on familiar websites is a recipe for pain.... 1987@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-22T22:12:05-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Hey, Anyone Want To Sell Me & Emmanuelle Your Car? Just asking, etc. The ideal candidate would be smaller rather than larger, sticker rather than automaticker, functional air conditioning & stereo, with bonus points for good gas mileage, cuteness, air... 1986@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-22T13:39:18-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html The Air Force Times, on Bush's National Guard Service: Link sent by a triple-secret operative. For those of you who care about such things, etc. Headline -- "Bush's Air Guard stint started well, then faded into mystery."... 1985@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-21T15:09:59-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Jon Stewart v. Bill O'Reilly: It's the short guy, by a landslide. Much, much funnier than Leno in his nonetheless interesting interrogation by Nikki Finke.... 1984@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-21T13:55:36-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html Oh, the Horrors of Competition! From today's New York Times story: CBS News officials said yesterday "a perfect storm," of circumstances -- including intense competition, faith in the reputation and judgment of a producer, and the reliance on a source... 1983@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-21T12:19:33-08:00 http://mattwelch.com/warblog/archives/week_2004_09_19.html '[T]hese partisans also will seize the exception and call it the rule': Interesting, somewhat contrarian column on the Rather flap from righty Debra Saunders: Let me stipulate: The news business attracts liberals. I work in a building where those of... 1982@http://mattwelch.com/warblog/ 2004-09-21T12:03:17-08:00