tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post8186451526117470372..comments2024-03-01T00:27:42.852-08:00Comments on Hammer Of The Blogs: Putting the "Mental" in FundamentalismHeywood J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-44452293823430650382012-10-13T14:10:38.971-07:002012-10-13T14:10:38.971-07:00Yeah, not much real impact here, but I'd love ...Yeah, not much real impact here, but I'd love nothing more than to think that I could help Mittens dribble Shelly Adelson's casino pelf away with his shriveled advert dick.Heywood J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-11444721263980527062012-10-12T10:35:14.183-07:002012-10-12T10:35:14.183-07:00The crack dealers at Politico support my case abov...The crack dealers at <i>Politico</i> support my case above that R-money is <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82217.html" rel="nofollow">pissing away</a> his money. Desarguesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-17865941936093530762012-10-11T21:53:17.878-07:002012-10-11T21:53:17.878-07:00Nony 2:58, yes, you will find many pained missives...Nony 2:58, yes, you will find many pained missives in these here archives over the heartbreak of blowback, the tragedy of unintended consequences. The usual Serious Thinkers, your CIA/State Dept. career-hack types, love to bandy about the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap, but they never seem to quite fully vet that second enemy.Heywood J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-90395288348635283602012-10-11T21:47:02.545-07:002012-10-11T21:47:02.545-07:00In the spirit of my ongoing mission to contribute ...In the spirit of my ongoing mission to contribute to the eternal pollution and butthurt of the internets, let me clarify something for you, Nony 8:58.<br /><br />I've been running this blog for eight years come January. In that entire time, I've never asked for so much as a dime (though folks have generously offered, and I appreciate it). And until a couple <i>weeks</i> ago, I never ran any ads.<br /><br />But because I'm sick of my real-world job, and am trying to find ways to do something I enjoy and possibly make some sort of income from it, I've spent most of this year (when I'm not working full-time or explaining shit to people) building content for another website, which I hope to launch soon.<br /><br />Since I am still in the process of learning about such things as website monetization, I decided to start using this site as a sort of lab rat, in order to fine-tune ideas for what I want to do on my self-hosted, self-financed site to come. The current format and layout, number and position of the ads, will almost definitely change several times over the course of the next couple months.<br /><br />Personally, I don't much care for advertising in any medium. But as it happens, I enjoy eating and paying my light bills more than I care about your aesthetic sensibilities. I too get quickly fatigued at sitting through the same five commercials on the teevee, excruciatingly bad slam poetry peddling red Levi's every five fucking minutes. So the trick is, I change the channel.<br /><br />I don't have interactive video ads, or mouseover browser hijacker ads, or obtrusive "please take this awesome poll" ads. Whatever your dystopic vision, near as I can tell, I have ads that can be scrolled past if seeing Mitt Romney's name causes one to break out in purity hives.<br /><br />And no, I don't have control over which ads appear. Really, I'm not even supposed to talk about them. But I hear your plaint, and I care deeply, just enough to tell you that I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps a few bars of the Tool classic <i>Hooker with a Penis</i> will help, you can kindly Google the lyrics yourself.Heywood J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-51266484136479501392012-10-11T12:22:44.578-07:002012-10-11T12:22:44.578-07:00Anon1: I'm more sanguine about the presence of...Anon1: I'm more sanguine about the presence of the occasional right-wing ad on this blog, and others like it. If Repubs want to spend their money uselessly advertising on liberal blogs, who are we to stop them -- that's money well spent, as far as I'm concerned: for us, by them. It's wasted money that could have gone to a more effective advertising campaign, but it didn't, thankfully. My enemy's losses are my gains, that's what I say. Desarguesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-85763336042740379262012-10-10T20:04:04.669-07:002012-10-10T20:04:04.669-07:00...but it leads to some hilarious cultural artifac......but it leads to some hilarious cultural artifacts - check out the Bond movie where Brosnan meets Bin Laden in his luxurious exotic mid-eastern tent lair, before he and his gang help Bond invade the soviet air force base. (_View to a Kill_(?))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-46219633412646469402012-10-10T14:58:18.125-07:002012-10-10T14:58:18.125-07:00Not to twist the knife too much, but we used to be...Not to twist the knife too much, but we used to be "allies" with these people against the Soviets. Think about that for awhile and what that says about us as a nation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-11001338030374600812012-10-10T08:58:09.508-07:002012-10-10T08:58:09.508-07:00Kudos [not] on your decision to 'upgrade' ...Kudos [not] on your decision to 'upgrade' you site with ads, which these days invariably come directly from Mittens Central. If you don't find that a bit degrading, you should.<br /><br />Don't bother with the rationalizations, I can already imagine them.<br /><br />...and if you think you have 'no control' and it's 'out of your hands', well you <i>do</i> have control: you can stop running ads.<br /><br />Otherwise, you might as well just continue the trend and post videos with 30 sec. of disgusting right-wing spam in front of them, like everyone else these days. It won't be long until the internet is just like commercial TV, except that you can't Tivo past the ads. Thanks a whole fucking lot for contributing to the pollution.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com