1 The GOP is stupid enough to think robo-calling me out of nowhere to play me a recording of Newt Gingrich blovating about something irrelevant is going to make me want to give them money and attention.

Sometimes I despair.

2 Only sometimes? 

3 Nissan Cube looks fabulous.

4 It's a box on wheels.  And the wheels part is debatable.

5 For the life of me, I don't understand what the hell happened to Charles Johnson. Maybe a lot of it is the same burnout that I went through, but I didn't end up completely flipping all my opinions on their head as a result of it. (I just stopped writing.)

6 From comments he made before I stopped bothering to visit LGF, I got the strong impression that he's nursing a grudge over being squeezed out of Pajamas Media, and accepted new sponsorship to pursue it.

-j

7 OK, that would explain a lot. I can believe it.

8 I may be forgetting the sequence of events, but I think a whole bunch of things went into the LGF demise. For me, it was centered on Charles being exposed as liar. Before it, if Charles said it, it was fact (like in case of Dan Rather). After, well... I started noticing it and stopped visiting long before the whole collapse, when attempts to smear Pamela exposed by R.S.McCain.

Now, Steven's question can be interpreted, as what has driven Charles to start lying and spinning? I did not track what was happening with that guy in dorky hat after the debacle of "Open Source News" (I still think Instapundit is crazy to string his horse to the cart with such track record). Maybe it was the reson, may it occured later, I cannot remember. But I think the feud with anti-jihadists occured earlier than Pajamas. That's where being the king and punishing dissenters took precendence reporting the truth. I suspect Pajamas fell out of it. But who knows.

9

Don't know what happened at LGF.  Could be partly burnout (I had it too, but like Steven, just stopped writing.) I still read over there once in a while. Just for old times sake. 

I would, however, like to note that back when I was writing a lot, I got banned from only two blogs. Both of them were (what I would call) far-right.  The lefty blogs where I commented  just happily did their best to insult me, accuse me of being a racist, (odd since I never mentioned race) and the other  usual no-logic responses to things they didn't agree with.