September 01, 2005
God in a Box
from - Buck
If you’ll take a look over at Buck’s Daily Links you will notice that Smijer has added a couple of other sites.
Mongo’s Place is a local (locally for me anyway) Vent site where folks from my small hometown of Toccoa, Georgia get together and shout at one another. Some folks call it reasoned debate. Others see it as a lawsuit just waiting to happen. Feel free to wander in and look around. We have lots of fun over there. You will have to register to post to the main board but there is a place called “The Sounding Board” where you can come in and say “Buck Sucks” and then leave, anonymously. Like I say, we have lots of fun over there.
Empire Burlesque is the blogspot of Chris Floyd. I love to read the writings of Chris Floyd. He is well to the left of me politically but I love his style of writing and I find myself agreeing with him at least half of the time. I cannot wait until there is a Democrat in the Whitehouse so I can find out if Chris is really an objective critic or just a hater of all things Republican. That day will come.
I keep a copy of “Broken Light” on my computer and just read it from time to time. I think it is classic. It is politically neutral and beautifully written. If any of you guys know where Chris Floyd was born and raised I would love to know. His bio only says “his career began in the hills and valleys of Tennessee and down in the piney swamps of southern Mississippi” but nothing about where he was born.
Smijer I know you will like Chris Floyd much more than you like Fred Reed.
These are just a couple of other places that I wander around in. The Internet has so many fascinating places and is full of so much information that it can get overwhelming.
It is almost like having God in a box.
::Posted by Buck at September 1, 2005 06:54 PM
Hope you don't mind; I took the liberty of hyperlinking the relevant sites in your post.
Mongo's place aka Eye on Toccoa already has me hooked, even though I'm not from Toccoa and there aren't many posts up...
Chris Floyd... at first blush, he seems insufficiently skeptical for my tastes. But he seems to be quite eloquent, and I certainly can't fault his opposition to Bush, the war, or a culture of racism. I'll be checking back on him from time to time.
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Posted by smijer on September 1, 2005 09:24 PM Link to comment |
Don't mind at all Smijer. In fact I had considered going in and hyperlinking them but at the time there were a few fires I was trying to put out so I just let it go. Thanks for linking from my post.
Describing Floyd as seeming "insufficiently skeptical" is fair. Maybe that is the term I should have used instead of saying that he was to the left of me politically.
I may not agree with the guys opinions but I love the way he puts them together and writes them down.
But I love to read Ann Coulter even though I do consider her to be a lunatic.
Regarding Mongo's site it is still relatively new and we are trying to get the guys who posted over at The Vent which is now defunct to come over there and pick up where they left off.
Many folks won't post if they have to be identified by name and valid email address. There are ways around that but most won't take the time or go to the trouble.
Personally I don't mind drive-by flamers and trolls. I always get a kick out of trying to imagine the guy wild-eyed and sitting at his computer spewing his invectives before his wife comes in and tells him to get his ass off of the computer and take out the trash.
Let me go ahead and wish everybody a happy Labor Day holiday. I hope you will all be safe.
And Smijer, any doggies today?
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Posted by Buck on September 2, 2005 08:07 AM Link to comment |
