I haven’t done much blog surfing in the past week or two. I’ve been busy working on undisclosed projects and had only enough time to dash out my own ideas for the day. I’m catching up right now.
I see I missed all the drama at Bitch PhD. Read Tim Burke for the summary and commentary, which is more interesting than anything else about this story.
Loved these articles in the Times: C. S. Lewis Has a Nooner with Mummy, Shakira — More Than A Nice Booty, and Get Your Shots Or the Amish Girl Will Getya.
Megan McArdle has a series of great posts on abortion. Go there and surf around.
Gawker and the Rapist. David Carr asks are bloggers immature or edgy? I’m waiting for the Gawker post “Is the Times boring or irrelevant?”.
Conspicuous Consumption. Want to seeKelly Ripa’s pad as it goes on the market? How much is John Lithgow paying for a pied-a-terre on the Westside? This is why we couldn’t afford a place in Manhattan and now live in New Jersey. Damn you John Lithgow! (thanks, Kathe)
The Lovechild of Wonkette and Volokh. Jeffrey Toobin finds a blog that gives the dirt on Alito’s cute son and Miers’s eye makeup.
Flea gets a big, wet smoochy kiss from me for pointing yet another mommy-hating article in the Times and how real parents behave in restaurants.
Apt. 11d 
From the article on C.S. Lewis: “[T]he fantasy writer Neil Gaiman [has published] a kind of payback scenario, in which Susan has grown up to be a distinguished professor, not unlike Lewis, and in which for good measure Aslan performs earth-shaking oral sex on the witch.”
Really? Anyone know where this appeared?
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On immature or edgy, newspapers do the exact same thing every single day! I remember reading a news item about a lava lamp exploding and killing a man and everything in it, including quotations from the emergency responders, was obviously intended to be funny. They are always little short news items, about bizarre accidents, and they are included in newspapers as entertainment. Bloggers are not the only ones who do it.
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Regarding the NY Times article, I’ve been hoping you would comment on it. Alas, it’s kind of old news now. I think Flea nails it, but the question still out there is huh? I mean, what inspired the old Gray Lady to indulge in such petty controversalizing?
And what will they do next? The bad-mom beat has to get old eventually, and then what? Perhaps they can take on people with annoying dogs.
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Henry – I’ve ranted on about the anti-parent bias in the Times before and even written letters to the Times and the WSJ about this problem. I’m overjoyed that Flea did such a great job responding to this article, so that I can take a break from being outraged. It gets old.
G Zombie- heh. No clue where to find that book, but let me know what you find out.
Sandra — I haven’t seen the posts in question at Gawker. I suppose making a rapist seem cool might be stepping over the line a wee bit, but to generalize that this is the norm in blogdom is BS.
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