Conservative blogger Peter Ingemi, aka Da Tech Guy, debuts his news and interview show on WRCN-AM 830 in Worcester, Massachusetts, at 5 pm today, Nov. 20. Peter is determined to cover stories of importance to conservatives, especially the ones that the mainstream media bury. You can listen and participate online if you are not in range of the station’s broadcast signal — click the station’s link for information on how to do that. You also can call the show live at 508-438-0965. The show’s e-mail address is datechguyondaradio at gmail dot com. Dear Stacy McCain is one of Da Tech Guy’s first guests and has the back story.

Next Saturday Peter’s show goes to its regular time slot of 9 pm. However, the shows slated for 12/4 and 12/11 will be pre-empted by UMASS Basketball games, so those shows will be at 5 pm. The shows will be live, except for the Christmas show, which will be taped.

Peter identifies his target market as being comprised of the following:

1. Political Junkies: Since the show will be one is a block of 4-5 radio shows that will be building on each other so people interested in local and state issues already listening will be led into the new show as part of the block. Unless pre-empted by College Basketball it is scheduled as the 4th show in the sequence.

2. Tea Party/Conservative Activists in the area:  I am well known in local tea party and Republican circles having covered and/or interviewed the major players on multiple occasions They have a natural interest in the show and have been following the show Conservatively Speaking where I started as a guest and rose to 3rd banana.

3. Bloggers and blog readers: as bloggers come onto the show their reader notified that they will be on will be attracted to the show to hear the people they read and of course attracted to the chance to call in and perhaps say a word to the blogger they have only known via video or text.

4. [Politicians and advocacy groups who need to be] Talking to New Hampshire: A 50,000 watt political show that covers New Hampshire during the 2011/2012 primary/ election season would seem to be the thing to follow. Especially if you are part of an advocacy group that wants to prepare the ground via ads or commentary.

Peter is not being paid by the radio station to do the show. However, he gets to keep the money he makes by selling advertising time and his rates are very reasonable.

Dear Little Miss Attila has been ALL OVER the story of Judith Griggs, managing editor of Cooks Source, which publishes online, on Facebook, and on paper, using an article on how apple pies were prepared in medieval England without the permission of the author, Monica Gaudio. When a friend tipped Ms. Gaudio off to the theft, Ms. Griggs refused to pay and added insult to injury by claiming that she had improved the piece by editing it and correcting spelling errors — that is, she changed the Middle English/Early Modern English spellings to Modern English, even though Ms. Gaudio had included the translations. This is all bad enough. But I suspect what has brought the wrath of the blogosphere down on Ms. Griggs’ head is that she ripped off Ms. Gaudio’s copyrighted BLOG post and claimed that everything published on the Web is public domain. Which it’s not. Which is why Ms. Griggs is now immortalized in a “Downfall” parody.

Dear Moe Lane also covers the story, with additional observations (go to his place for the links on “ensue”):

Alas for Cooks Source, the author is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Which means that she is fully plugged into the geek community. Which means that this story got picked up all over the Internet (because geeks and members of the SCA can be found EVERYWHERE*).

Hi-jinks ensue. And ensue. Oh, how do they ever ensue.

*EVERYWHERE.

I wish my father, Hubert P. Yockey, one of the pioneers of the application of information theory to molecular biology, had been able to get the scientific community nearly as worked up about the theft of the work of German scientist, Walther Loeb, by American scientist, Stanley Miller. Miller is credited with being the first to use a spark discharge in a solution of chemicals to create amino acids, which is supposed to be a scenario for the origin of life (although my father shows why it isn’t). However, Miller lifted the experiment from Walther Loeb, which my father learned by reading all the works Miller cited in his graduate thesis, published in 1953, in which Miller claims priority for the discovery. In fact, because my father obtained it through an inter-library loan, I saw the copy of the book Miller read that explained Loeb’s experiment — the library card had Miller’s name on it, dated the time he was researching his thesis.

My father shows in his book, Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life, which is advertised on this page, that Miller essentially duplicated the set-up Loeb showed in an illustration in a paper published in 1906. My father writes on p. 125 of his book, “Loeb’s priority in the electro-chemistry of the silent electrical discharge and exploration of any function it may have had in ‘prebiotic chemistry’ must be recognized (Mojzsis et al., 1999; Yockey, 1997, 2002b).

Oh, and another thing — if you read the Wikipedia (shut up!) article I link about Stanley Miller, it credits Oparin and Haldane with being the first to come up with the scenario for the origin of life that chemicals under the right conditions would form into amino acids and proteins and spring to life. Hah! This speculation appeared in 1853 in William Whewell’s book, Of the Plurality of Worlds, now available in facsimile. My father knew these ideas pre-dated Oparin and Haldane because of the line in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” in my postscript below.

I told Dad about Whewell in the mid-1990′s after reading the following from Anthony Trollope’s novel, Barchester Towers published in 1857:

“Are you a Whewellite or a Brewsterite, or a t’othermanite, Mrs. Bold?” said Charlotte, who knew a little about everything, and had read about a third of each of the books to which she alluded.

“Oh!” said Eleanor; “I have not read any of the books, but I feel sure that there is one man in the moon at least, if not more.”

“You don’t believe in the pulpy gelatinous matter?” said Bertie.

“I heard about that,” said Eleanor, “and I really think it’s almost wicked to talk in such a manner. How can we argue about God’s power in the other stars from the laws which he has given for our rule in this one?”

“How indeed!” said Bertie. “Why shouldn’t there he a race of salamanders in Venus? And even if there be nothing but fish in Jupiter, why shouldn’t the fish there he as wide awake as the men and women here?”

“That would be saying very little for them,” said Charlotte. “I am for Dr. Whewell myself, for I do not think that men and women are worth being repeated in such countless worlds. There may be souls in other stars, but I doubt their having any bodies attached to them.

But come, Mrs. Bold, let us put our bonnets on and walk round the close. If we are to discuss sidereal questions, we shall do so much better under the towers of the cathedral than stuck in this narrow window.”

P.S.

The earliest quote my father was aware of showing that others had thought of chemicals combining to create life before Oparin and Haldane is from “The Mikado.” When I Googled for the quote, I happened upon the following from “Mind the Gap!,” a scientific article by Antonio Lazcano, who apparently believes in the life-from-chemicals origin-of-life scenario:

In 1835, the French naturalist Felix Dujardin started crushing ciliates under the microscope and observed that the tiny cells exuded a jellylike, water-insoluble substance, which he described as a “gelée vivante” and which was eventually christened “protoplasm” by the physician Johann E. Purkinje and the botanist Hugo von Mohl. Fifty years after Dujardin’s observations, the possibility that living organisms were the evolutionary outcome of the gradual transformation of lifeless gel-like matter into protoplasm was so widespread that it found its way into musical comedies. In 1885, the self-important Pooh-Bah, Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado that “I am in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”

What my father, Hubert P. Yockey, demonstrated in his publications is that the origin of life is unknowable, as Darwin predicted, and must be accepted as an axiom of biology, just as the existence of matter is accepted as an axiom of physics and chemistry.

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I clicked a story from Instapundit on bedbugs and noticed that the source of the story, Business Insider, has an extremely useful array of icons under each story. The one titled, “Embed,” intrigued me because we bloggers are accustomed to embedding videos from YouTube, cat photos from icanhazcheeseburger.com and PDFs from Scribd, but embedding a post? Check out Business Insider’s explanation here.

This is a positive development because suing bloggers for copyright infringement for quoting too extensively has become a new stream-of-income for some newspapers. See Little Miss Attila and Laura at Ace of Spades HQ for more — Laura links Clayton Cramer’s instructions on how to use Firefox to blacklist the newspapers doing this.

I see from posts at dear Attila’s (here, here and here — or click the last one and scroll down) that there is a controversy over “blogola” created by the Daily Caller in an attack on Dan Riehl and Ace at Ace of Spades HQ. And I see a confession from Smitty at The Other McCain.

“Blogola” is a neologism for payment-for-favorable-posts to bloggers. The only reason that I am not offended that no one thought I was important enough to buy off is that I don’t believe anyone in the Right Blogosphere is getting blogola. If anything, it is the other way around — it is the Right Blogosphere that is the goose laying golden eggs for conservative candidates and the Republican Party and getting starved in return. Even getting lip service — don’t go there — would be an improvement since it would demonstrate the possession of a clue.

John Hawkins of Right Wing News contributes additional valuable perspective on the Daily Caller’s accusation of blogola, which I urge you to read because he knows everybody — even me — and goes WAY back. I wish I also could link a post he wrote recently on why wealthy Republicans should be supporting bloggers on the Right, especially since the Left financially supports Leftist bloggers, but I can’t find it. In July John wrote an excellent piece on the “7 Things the GOP Can Do for the Right Side of the Blogosphere,” and here is what he had to say about the GOP financially supporting Republican and conservative bloggers:

So, all that being said, here are some suggestions for how the GOP can better work with bloggers.

1) Funding help: There’s a weird dichotomy between the way the Left and Right view the new media. The Right views it as a capitalistic enterprise where individuals succeed and fail on their own merits. The Left views it more as a collaborative effort where they’re working as a group to advance their goals. This plays into everything from the way both sides approach stories, to fundraising, to raising capital for new media ventures.

That last item is one in particular that deserves some more attention. Most of the people on the Right side of the blogosphere are starved for funding. They can’t afford to improve their websites, advertise, expand, etc. because they simply don’t have the money to do it with. People ask why there’s not more journalism on the right side of the blogosphere. The biggest answer is that they simply can’t afford to do it. Even a lot of the more successful bloggers still need to have day jobs and the ones that don’t can’t even afford to rent a car, drive a few states over, and stay in a fleabag hotel for a couple of nights. The money needed to do those things is out there, but it’s being spent to fund losing campaigns, to help defray the cost of print copies of magazines, and to help think tanks fund blogs nobody reads and give fellowships to people without audiences.

Granted, the Republican Party can’t get away with directly funding blogs, but, they could put us in touch with big donors. They could also buy some ads, not only to reach out to their base, but to help fund the people on their side.

In July, Jimmy Bise at The Sundries Shack also addressed the problem that conservative bloggers are taken for granted and starved for money by the GOP and wealthy conservatives when HuffPo tried the “everybody does it” justification for the corruption of the Leftist Journolist bloggers and reporters who coordinated their news coverage to advance the Democratic agenda and Obama. Jimmy went through what a list of top tier conservative bloggers do to both blog and make a living, then a second tier where he placed himself and … I consider this quite an honor … me. I urge you to read the full piece, which comes to the following conclusion:

What all that means is that most of us on the right don’t have the time the left thinks we do. We’re not so fortunate as to have a number of sugar-daddies paying our bills so we can hang around the virtual water-cooler and chit-chat. Heck, even the time we spend at conventions like CPAC and Right Online (which many of us pay for out of our own pockets) is spent more on chasing down grist for the blogging mill than it is hob-nobbing with our fellow bloggers.

The truth is, a vast gulf exists between how right-wing bloggers do business and how it’s done on the left. Most of that difference revolves around money, and the free time that money purchases.

However, Because Ace, in the post I linked above, predicted that very soon there will be a shakeout in the conservative blogosphere where even major bloggers quit because they have to make a choice between blogging and making a living, I can’t help wondering, as my headline notes, “What if the conservative blogosphere went on strike?” Why should we just starve to death when we can make the GOP understand they really will miss the water when the well runs dry? What if we all go dark for a week or two? Would the people and organizations that exploit us miss us enough to cough up some steady dough? I just posted that I’ll be phoning it in for several weeks, so obviously I’m on board with a strike. As for when, there’s no time like the present, and during the election season strikes me as the time when we have the most leverage.

A Conservative Lesbian, the blog, was down for the last five days due to a malware attack that my Web host says originated from the Ukraine. If you got a warning screen telling you of the infection and you clicked through anyway, please use your anti-virus software to scan your computer’s hard drive. An online service called Sucuri.net gave me the all-clear around 10 am this morning. I submitted a request to Google to review A Conservative Lesbian and 12 hours later they lifted the warning screen. Yay!

I appreciate all the kind messages my dear gentle readers and fellow bloggers sent — thank you! I missed you.

I have a proposal for attracting to conservatism a demographic that’s up-for-grabs. There are three blog publishers who are in a position to do this. Each one could do it alone, but it will make a bigger impact if they hold hands and make the leap of faith together.

My proposal is that at least one publisher of a conservative group blog make their blog a conservative-gay-friendly space by doing the following:

1. Publishing columns that are in favor of homosexual equality by authors who make their case in terms of the values of conservatives, such as liberty, the Constitution, capitalism, strengthening marriage and the family, and so on.
2. Refusing to publish any column, podcast, radio show or TV show expressing opposition to equality for homosexuals.
3. Allowing debate on the merits of homosexual equality in the comments on each piece, but setting a high standard for approving comments by refusing to publish any that are rude or include personal attacks or name-calling.

Hear me out — this is NOT censorship.

After all, regarding item two above — every conservative online publication — and CPAC — has a point-of-view and rejects writers and performers and speakers who oppose it. For example, conservative women do not have to argue with opponents of their equality — and I remember when equality for women WAS controversial. No one gets to advocate white supremacy, or call for a return to the days of segregation. Muslims and anti-semites do not get to argue for the destruction of Israel and of Jews. No one is allowed to claim that Islam is misunderstood by Muslims carrying out its instructions to kill infidels. You don’t get to glorify socialism, fascism, Communism, Leftism, totalitarianism, statism, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Che, Chavez or Castro.

So there ARE boundaries that it is not considered censorship to enforce.

The first thing establishing this policy will do is create a space that gives lesbian and gay conservatives the dignity of advocating for their own equality instead of only being allowed to fight for the liberty of others because their own cause is too insignificant. After all — Obama, the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan — we have bigger problems. Well, you know what? We figured out how to give blacks and women their equality during the Viet Nam war, Watergate, the oil embargoes, inflation, double-digit interest rates and the Iran hostage crisis. So there’s every reason to get going on the process of equality for homosexuals right now and no excuse for stalling.

Second, such a policy will result in a blog that lesbians and gays could enjoy reading, so they can get acquainted with the ideas of fiscal conservatism in an atmosphere of comparative peace. Discrimination has forced so many lesbians and gays into entrepreneurial careers that they are the natural constituency of fiscal conservatism. Obama and the Democrats have broken their promises to lesbians and gays, who are starting to realize that the Left also has social conservatives — Protestant blacks, Muslims, illegal and legal Catholic immigrants — who are intractably allied AGAINST equality for lesbians and gays. This means lesbians and gays who would be open to conservatism are a demographic up-for-grabs.

So, in the face of such hatred, exploitation and betrayal on the Left, why don’t more lesbians and gays leave?

Lesbians and gays act like battered wives and refuse to leave their abusers because they don’t have any safe place to go. They don’t know that fiscal conservatism is an option as their new home. They don’t know how much the Leftist mainstream media and blogosphere lie to them to keep them in the fold. And all they see of conservatism is social conservatives who demonize them.

But social conservatives do not own every square inch of the conservative movement. And welcoming lesbians and gays does not mean the loss of religion, God and good values. After all, one of the first organizations founded at the dawn of the gay rights movement was the Metropolitan Community Church. And the aspirations of lesbians and gays for equality are noble ones: to marry, to create a family through adoption, and to serve their country in the military with exactly the same openness about their sexual orientation that straights have, along with the same duties.

Finally, setting this policy will take from the Left one of its favorite accusations against conservatives of bigotry. It also will expose the Left’s fraudulent tolerance and real abuse and exploitation of homosexuals. Imagine the contortions of deception that Obama and the Democrats will be forced into in order to halt the stampede of their gay cash cows! Obama might even have to keep a promise!!!!!11!!!!1!!!! Seriously, isn’t it worth doing for that alone?

Dear gentle readers, what do you think of this proposal?

Update, 4/6/2010, Tues.: Woohoo! This post has been linked by Queerty! There was a bit of snark and a touch of doubt that I am in my right mind, as evidenced by my refusal to accept the religion of anthropogenic global warming, rebranded as climate change, just because the scientific evidence doesn’t support the theory. However, basically the post was fair, so good on them for that. There were exploding heads in the comments, but that is par for the course.

Anyway, Queerty readers, there ARE plenty of people on the Right who DO support gay equality and we are grabbing that issue and running with it. We are going to expose the lies of Democrats, who say they are helpless to keep their promises to gays because of all the bigots on the Right. Yo, yo, yo! Leftist gays and lesbians! Your problem is bigots on the Left! Democrats control the Congress and White House — if you do not hold their feet to the fire and set a deadline like July 4 to get the legislation for our equality passed and signed into law, you are making the mistake of a lifetime! Do NOT give another penny to the Democrats or one second of your labor until that happens. No excuses. No delays. No “we’ve got bigger problems.”

The Democrats are abusing you and laughing at you because they think they’ve got you trapped. Well, fiscal conservatism is a much nicer world than Leftism and is ready to welcome you with open arms. Keep coming back and I will explain why and how. In the meantime, the more Obama/Pelosi/Reid see that you WILL leave for a better offer and you HAVE one, the more leverage you have. Take it. Use it. And be prepared for the possibility that finally making the Democrats put up or shut up will reveal that they have practiced a mind-boggling deception on you for their own selfish ends.

It’s been tough, blog-wise, for the last month. The first two weeks of February I spent coping with two blizzards and two snow storms — it was painful and exhausting. Then I went to CPAC, which was WONDERFUL, but I got very sleep-deprived. I’d have recovered faster if I’d been willing to close my eyes more to sleep and do my TM-Sidhi program properly over the next week, but I was thoroughly spooked by my kitty Sophia’s death from the same illness my father has and didn’t want to sleep when he was awake.

As soon as I recovered from CPAC, I thought it would only take an hour or so to make some changes to my blog that I’ve been wanting to do for several months, and thanks to my enthusiasm from the convention, last Saturday seemed like the right day to do them. Sooooo — I’ve been wrestling with the aftermath from THAT for a week now and I’ve got everything fixed except for figuring out why the coffee cup graphic is suddenly huge. However, one way or another I’m going to achieve my original intention. Full stop. Which is why posting will be light until then. I’m having to learn a lot of new things since I maintain this blog myself and I have to concentrate to pull everything together. But I’m really excited about how useful my blog will be when I’m done.

Here are posts I’m planning, although I won’t absolutely swear I’ll write because I have other pressing work to do, as well:

1. Nature loves symmetry, and God has a sense of humor, so since I recently had to chide The Anchoress (!) for doing something evil, I now must explain why Keith Olbermann is NOT entirely evil or crazy in the rant Ace linked about his sick/dying father in a post on whether Olbermann is on his way out of MSNBC.
2. My CPAC photos.
3. How the Blog Bash at CPAC changed me and my blogging because of what Val Prieto (founder of Babalu) and Melissa Clouthier said, plus the warm reception I got when I first walked into the Bloggers Lounge from Jimmy Bise and Fausta, and Jimmy’s magnanimous parting remark to me at the end of CPAC (“Keep knocking them out of the park!”).
4. At CPAC I made up with Gay Patriot (but not Gay Patriot West — yet — and I’ll explain why Gabriel Malor of Ace of Spades may have a spotlight put on him, soon).
5. Stacy McCain is a genius for his explanation of how Lefties create or twist facts to smear the Right.
6. A post featuring Timothy Hutton and Gina Bellman from the TNT show, “Leverage,” and a scene from a movie early in Hutton’s career, “Ordinary People.”
7. I want to match a HillBuzz post on Trolls 101 on how they work to dissipate their opposition’s energy to explain how that applies to civil unions.
8. Why I think the Miss California contestant, Miss Beverly Hills, is angling to replace Carrie Prejean as spokesvictim for the National Organization for Marriage — or NOM is seeking a Miss California contestant who will create a brouhaha similar to the one Prejean did last year.
9. What Eric Clapton’s new TMobile commercial has to do with Claude Hopkins, the father of modern advertising.
10. Why, yes, I DID see that California Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn, who is married to a woman and the father of four children, and who has a 100 percent voting record against any measure for equality for homosexuals, was recently arrested for drunk driving after leaving a gay bar in Sacramento AND that he had a man in his vehicle. And I probably will have something to say about it.
11. Meeting Da Tech Guy was a highlight of CPAC and here is a video of him interviewing me .
12. And I’m going to have to catch up on my posts for Newsreal, what with being a Feminist Hawk there, now, and in exalted company, including Dr. Phyllis Chesler.

Suggested reading:

1. This column by Melanie Phillips on the Labour Party’s secret and successful campaign permanently to alter the ethnic composition of the population of Great Britain. (H/T Kathy Shaidle.)
2. VA Classical Liberal at the Daily Kos on the Hayek vs. Keynes smack-down.
3. And this post on a possible cure for multiple sclerosis, if restricted bloodflow in the brain turns out to be causing the problem. FYI, disability due to MS is not related to the number of lesions in the brain visible in MRIs.

Thanks for sticking with me, gentle readers!

A year ago today I was seized with the passion to make the leap from reading blogs to writing one. I started with a free WordPress blog, but quickly went the self-hosted route so my first post here is dated January 25, 2009.

In terms of passion, joy, enthusiasm and good luck — and a feeling that I am fulfilling my destiny — this experience is comparable to the amazing sequence of events that brought my late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, into my life.

I am grateful to my fellow conservative and libertarian bloggers who embraced me without reserve and mentored me. I am especially grateful to the following:

Joy McCann of Little Miss Attila, whose invitation to coffee gave me the courage to sign up for CPAC 2009; Stacy McCain, of The Other McCain, who was the gracious subject of my first post last March to receive an Insta-Lanche, and his co-blogger, Chris “Smitty” Smith; Jennifer Lawson, The Bloggess; Prof. Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit; Prof. William Jacobson, of Legal Insurrection; Ed Morrissey and Allahpundit, of Hot Air; Michelle Malkin (for accepting my trackbacks); my dear Hill Buzz boyz for being one of the first to put this blog in their blogroll the way I prefer to be listed (“A Conservative Lesbian”); Roger Simon and Aaron Hanscom of Pajamas Media; David Horowitz, Jamie Glazov and David Swindle of Newsreal blog — and for inducting me into the Sisterhood of the Feminist Hawks; Daniel Blatt, of Gay Patriot; Andrew Breitbart; Charles Winecoff, of Big Hollywood; Serge Gor; Matthew Vadum; Moe Lane; Jimmy Bise; Cassandra of Villainous Company; Dan Riehl; The Anchoress (for accepting my trackbacks); No Sheeples Here — I’m sure there are more, but I’ll have to finish this post later.

Update, later on 1/12/2010, Tues.:

I had to stop writing earlier to go to an appointment and as I was heading to my car I realized that I hadn’t yet thanked my dear, gentle readers. So now I am thanking you. You all are the best. I am grateful to each and every one of you.

Looking forward to 2010, I will continue blogging here because it gives me so much joy. I also will cover Gov. Sarah Palin for David Horowitz’s Newsreal blog starting tonight. Eric Hoffer and his book, The True Believer, are fundamental to the point of view over there — and I was raised on Eric Hoffer, so it’s a good fit. By the way, this has been brewing since I sided with Phyllis Chesler against Naomi Wolf over burqas, and they promptly welcomed me into the Sisterhood of the Feminist Hawks, so it is not related to my favorable review of David Horowitz’s latest book, A Cracking of the Heart. I also will continue to submit pieces periodically to Pajamas Media — they have been very good to me and I like them a lot.

I also have other writing projects I’ll be working on to generate my own income. I’m currently working for room and board as my father’s caregiver. I am glad to be making his life as long and happy as I can. And I feel fortunate to have meaningful work to do while I am recovering my health and re-starting my writing career.

Thank you, dear gentle readers — I wish you every blessing always and I look forward to continuing to blog for you!

My fairy blogparents, Little Miss Attila and Robert Stacy McCain, of The Other McCain, both came after me on Saturday, May 9, from different angles. In “Sorry, Cynthia,” Little Miss Attila disagreed with me on the practice of outing, while Stacy pondered, “Could Cynthia Yockey double her chances for a date on Saturday night?” I was relieved and flattered by Stacy’s post since I had gone after him a few days before with “Robert Stacy McCain vows to kill his gay children on a hill,” — in which I reminded opponents of gay marriage that their vitriol against gays will damage their relationship with their gay children and may cause their child’s death — and I was worried he wasn’t speaking to me — or worse, not linking me. Nothing says love in the blogosphere like links. It was a couple of days before I realized he also might have been coveting Google dominance on some key phrases that include the word “lesbian,” but I am a practical woman and traffic is traffic.

However, I did get a bit of a giggle on Monday when war broke out between Little Miss Attila and Stacy over the vexed question of the relative amount of awesomeness required to write for newspapers as opposed to magazines. I won’t pick sides but I will tell you that both Stacy and I were newspaper reporters.