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• I Got Something

  • Posted by Vinnie on February 15th, 2008 filed in Bratty Brother, Cotillion, Support this, Vinnie
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The debut of Liberation Radio, hosted by Jane Novak

Produced and engineered by yours truly.

• Project Runway

  • Posted by Beth on November 28th, 2007 filed in 2008 election, Blogs, Cotillion, General, Politics, Things I Love, Video   GOP debate · project runway · YouTube
  • 1 Comment »

I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but I’m blogging Project Runway along with c.a. marks and (hopefully) Holly and Janette–and maybe Jody, too?

It’s on tonight–they’re replaying the first episode right now, but we’ll have something up when this week’s episode is on in an hour. See ya there, maybe?

Oh, and I’m not bothering with the YouTube debate. You can catch some live-blogging and participate over at TechPresident, or get some good analysis at Jim Geraghty’s, or just talk smack in the comments at Ace’s. YouTube jacks up Firefox’s latest build (fix it, dammit!) and I really don’t care what internet activists with video cameras ask, anyway. Call it elitist, but I just don’t care–I fully expect it to be loaded with frivolous questions from Paultards and others who have no intention of voting Republican anyway. (How “elitist” can I be when I prefer to watch Project Runway, though?)

• Weblog Awards Voting Guide

  • Posted by Beth on November 5th, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, Cotillion, General
  • 1 Comment »

OK, first: Thanks to those of you who have voted for MVRWC, but really…DON’T. Don’t vote for MVRWC; I want one of the blogs on “our side” to win, and I’m not the one who can or even should win. Instead, I want you to vote for The Jawa Report or Red State.

Now that that’s out of the way, the list:

Best Blog:

Post Secret is slaughtering the competition; it’s not even close. I’d be surprised if even Michelle Malkin could catch up with them, but I’d love to at least see her (anyone, really) beat the nausea-inducing Huffington Trash. The only battle here is for second place, and it’s between those two right now.

Best New Blog:

Jammie Wearing Fool has the Lizardoid vote locked up, but Nice Deb is a fellow moron and gets my vote. (”Morons” meaning those of us who hang out in Ace’s comments, for you non-morons out there.)

Best Individual Blogger:

The Anchoress, of course. Glenn Reynolds will probably win it, though. Frankly, I don’t even know who the hell some of those people are, and basically it looks like Lindsay Beyerstein has the lib vote just because of her politics. Feh.

Best Conservative Blog:

Duh. Vote for Ace. I’m guessing if you read this blog, you probably already are voting for Ace anyway.

Eh, I’m not gonna go through the whole list. It could take all day. Here’s a shorter VRWC-approved list, focusing on some of the categories you may have otherwise overlooked.

Liberal Blog: Not VRWC-approved, but vote for Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, because he just seems like a nice dude and doesn’t spend all day hating. (Which is probably why he’s in last place right now, if that tells you anything.) I’ve always voted for him in these things.

Best Political Coverage: The Campaign Spot (Jim Geraghty). I’d vote for Geraghty for President.

Best Celebrity Blogger: Eh, who cares. I’m voting for Curt Schilling, though, even though I’m SO not a Red Sox fan. Better a baseball player blog than some stupid celebritard blog, right? And actually, it’s a good blog.

Best Tech Blog: Lifehacker or Smashing Magazine–I love those blogs. Smashing is more focused on design, so it may not be your kinda blog, though. I’m just sick of the endless streak of Engadget/Gizmodo wins. Booooring. I wish Lifehacker and Smashing Magazine would at least ask their readers to vote, though, because Engadget and Gizmodo are creaming the competition right now. Bleh.

Best LGBT Blog: Average Gay Joe is another moron-blogger; vote for him. Sure, he’s gonna get killed by the lefturds, but show him the love anyway.

Parenting Blog: I don’t actually know any of these blogs, but I looked and I like Dad Gone Mad. Vote for him.

Education: Don’t care, but Matthew K. Tabor and Frumteacher are good.

Science: Climate Audit. Period.

Medical: Baldy’s Blog. Read this post of his, please.

Religious Blog: It looks to be a battle between the Catholics (Father Z’s WDTPRS) and Evangelicals (Evangelical Outpost), but vote for one of my best friends (and fellow Cotillionite) instead–Jody (and Wendei!) at GodDivas. PLEASE.

Culture Blog: Libertas!

Gossip: Go Fug Yourself is hilarious; vote for them.

UK Blog: The Devil’s Kitchen. Vote or die.

European: Brussels Journal or Van Der Galien Gazette.

Asian: Ko Htike’s Prosaic Collection is getting killed right now, but vote for them–they’ve been providing front-lines coverage of the turmoil in Burma (Myanmar).

Aussie/NZ Blog: Tim Blair, obviously. He’s got some competition this year from some Pepto-Bismol pink and glittery girly blog, of all things, and some newspaper blog (from The Age) that frankly makes my nose wrinkle.

Latino/SA/Caribbean blog: Babalu. The Real Cuba is good, but it’s not a blog.
UPDATE: Val Prieto posted this in the Weblog Awards Forum:

As pleased and honored as we at Babalu are to be once again a finalist in the Weblog Awards, and as last year’s winners, we would like to respectfully bow out of this year’s contest and allow one of the other fine blogs in our category a chance to receive this year’s laurels.

I thank those that have and were thinking of voting for Babalu and ask that you consider voting for The Real Cuba, who does an incredibly outstanding job at exposing the truth about the communist island.

You heard the man, vote for The Real Cuba!

 
Cotillion blogs in the Finalists:

Best Religious Blog

GodDivas

Best Diarist

Ruthlace
(TMS Carol and BSC Beth’s Mom)
The Median Sib (Carol)

Best Video Blog

HamNation
(Mary Katharine Ham)

Video of the Year

HamNation - Sopranos DC Edition (MKH)

TTLB Ecosystem Categories

Best of the Top 250 Blogs

The Jawa Report (Jane Novak - Guest Blogger)
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (Beth)
Blue Star Chronicles
(Beth)

Best of the Top 251 - 500 Blogs

Knowledge is Power (SondraK)
Baldilocks (Juliette)
Fausta
PC Free Zone (Chrissie)

Best of the Top 1001 - 1750 Blogs

Agent Bedhead
Merri Musings

Best of the Top 1751 - 2500 Blogs

Armies of Liberation (Jane)
Hooah Wife (Greta)
Little Miss Attila (Joy)

Best of the Rest of the Blogs (8751+)

Kiss My Gumbo (Greta)
Photos by Seawitch (Karen)

(Special thanks to Janette for compiling the Cotillion list!)

OK, there are more in the ecosystem that need your votes, but I’ll have to finish/update this post (and add links) later.

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• Villainous!

  • Posted by Sparta on October 17th, 2007 filed in Blogs, Cotillion, General
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BAH. Cassandra has left the building.

Not to worry too much, though–you can still find her fascist reich-wing writing at Milblogs and some occasional articles for Pajamas Media!
:mrgreen:

• Cotillion can-can?

  • Posted by Beth on October 17th, 2007 filed in Cotillion, Funny, General, Video
  • 3 Comments »

Heeeee!!! Cute, Holly (it’s her creation, not mine!). :mrgreen:

• Ellen Goodman, Helpless Little Girl

  • Posted by Beth on August 12th, 2007 filed in Blog Wars, Blogs, Blogtards, Cotillion, General, Journalism, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid
  • 18 Comments »

Oh, looky here. A poor helpless widdle girl is asking where all the female political bloggers are again, and why The Man™ is keeping us down.

Who knows how many women are scared silent.

Project much?

Is it because men raise their hands first in class?

O RLY? They do? Not in my memory, and not in my daughter’s class. Maybe poor little Miss Ellen Goodman was afraid, though.

Cooper thinks one reason for the demographics is that educated, economically comfortable men were the early adapters to the technology and took the lead.

Well, duh. Political blogging didn’t come first; tech blogging did. Like it or not, there simply *are* more men interested in technology than women. What are you gonna do about it? As for me, my daughter has been raised in a science/math/technology-loving environment, and her interests reflect as much. She’s had a blog since she was six years old, and she still writes on her blog. No doubt she’ll be among the early adopters of new technology as she grows up, whether she’s outnumbered by icky boys or not. I wasn’t among the early bloggers or certain other early adopters; I spent most of my adult life doing traditionally female things (damn Patriarchy!) like…oh, wait. I was in the military! And they didn’t even make me be a cook! I got to pick what I wanted to do–can you imagine?! Women actually picking and choosing what they want to do, without a man’s help!

See, unlike Ellen Goodman and her ilk, I never really thought about “traditional” gender roles–until I actually MET women like her. And unlike certain others, I didn’t have a light bulb go off that said “OMG! The menz are oppressing me!” It’s always been a shrug and “whatever” for me, because I don’t let others define me. I’m not a freaking victim. I don’t have the most highly-trafficked blog on teh internets (shocker!), but it’s not because I’m female, fer Chrissakes. (I’m not stupid; I know this blog isn’t for everyone–and neither am I). In fact, if the Blogads survey is a reasonably accurate sampling, most of the readers here are men. I would guess the same male/female statistics go for the most-read “female blogger,” Michelle Malkin, as well. Maybe that’s not the case with the women blogging on the left–I’m sure plenty of dudes are put off by the men suck vibe at blogs like Pandagon. Either way, who freaking cares?

Blogger Adele Stan suggests white male bloggers have a network of “funding, linking, quoting, or bookings on political talk shows.” Or maybe we need only count viewers. The typical political blog reader is a 43-year-old man with an $80,000 family income. Is it any surprise that Hillary Clinton gets only 9 percent in most online-activist polls, while garnering more than 40 percent in traditional polls?

ZOMG! The Vast White Male Conspiracy!!1! Conspiring against Hillary! Hey, Ellen, welcome to the blogosphere. You run with the Kos Kidz? Guess what–they aren’t Hillary fans; she’s too “centrist” for them (LOL). The internet is full of extremists of all stripes, whether the extremists realize they are or not. And here’s a news flash: Unscientific online polls do not determine the winner. Online polling for Hillary means the VWMC is hard at work? Please. You fail.

Forgive me for snorting at laughable nonsense like this:

Is it the angry voice — a netroot norm but a female abnorm? Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos and namesake of the convention, said unabashedly in an ABC News interview last year, “I learned to talk the way I do in the US Army. And we don’t mince words. In politics, I don’t see it any different. I see it as a battlefield.” The American Prospect’s Garance Franke-Ruta, who was on the panel notes, wryly, “If you’re an angry man you’re righteous. If you’re an angry woman, you’re crazy or a bitch.”

LOL. No, Kos is a douchetard asshole, and maybe it’s just you, poor little Garance, who’s a crazy bitch. I certainly don’t mince words, and if someone thinks I’m crazy or a bitch, they haven’t said so. Nor would I care. Toughen up, cookie.

And right after that? Another non sequitur, anyone?

Is it harassment? Women have been talking about this since blogger Kathy Sierra was threatened with a picture of her next to a noose.

Oh, like men don’t get hate mail, get their websites hacked, get threatened? Good grief. Hey, maybe we should legislate something! Hate crimes against female bloggers!

Convention organizer Gina Cooper has two e-mail addresses, just one carrying her female name. Only “Gina” gets the hate e-mail with sexual threats and such comments as: “I’m going to hunt you down.”

Yes, and all male bloggers freely share their real email addresses, as well as their full names. Right.

So in one part of the article, she worries that delicate, oppressed(!) women baby factories are scared away from political blogging because it’s too rough.

It’s not that women are invisible. There are “women’s pages” on the Internet. Technorati counts more than 11,000 “mommy blogs.” There are “women’s issues” blogs like the funny and bracing Feministing.

(”Funny and bracing?” Ahem.) Anyway, so what? Complain to the mommy bloggers about not being political enough, then. Oh wait, aren’t we women supposed to be able to pursue our own interests? Guess what: Heather Armstrong/Dooce (who’s a better writer than you are), for example, apparently isn’t that into politics. Jessica at Feministing and the godawful Amanda at Pandagon write about women-centric issues. Got a problem with that? Tough shi’ite. I’m interested in politics, along with “geeky” computer stuff. Hence, I have a majority-male readership, because they’re apparently more interested in politics and whatever else, than in other people’s kids and families or in “women’s issues,” whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Who’s defining gender roles, then, when you call things “women’s issues?” I happen to think the right to bear arms is a “women’s issue.” Do you?

But wait! It’s not about the eleven thousand mommy blogs, after all!

But this is not just about counting, not just about diversity-by-the-numbers. It’s about the political dialogue — who gets heard and who sets the agenda. Cooper asks herself: “Are we going to do the same thing we’ve done all along, but with computers? Or will we create a new institution that allows for marginalized voices?“

Whatever.

Two years ago, after Newsweak started another round of gender wars in the blogosphere, I decided maybe some of these pseudo-feminists needed to open their eyes a little, so I started my own group of bloggers–The Cotillion. A tongue in cheek name, predictably taken literally by the usual leftard morons like Amanda at Pandagon–to which I responded in a polite email that I would think a devout feminist wouldn’t be so quick to tear down a group of women who want to raise the visibility of women in the blogosphere. Silly me. Ever read the feminist blogs? It’s constant in-fighting with them, about stupid shi’ite like who the more oppressed party is, or who the “real” feminists are. Yeah, they’re really interested in increasing women’s power. LOL. Maybe Ellen Goodman needs to broaden her horizons beyond the leftardosphere, because we aren’t all complaining about The Man™ oppressing us, and it’s not because we’re tools of the Patriarchy, either. I’ve written plenty of things here myself that are feminist (not in the angry left-wing feminist vein, though), and I’m not afraid of the word.

So you wonder where the women are? Here’s a list of around forty conservative/libertarian female political bloggers, and Baldilocks has a list (and a few words about the scary-bad internets) as well.

Where’s your list, Ellen? What have you done for me or any other women lately? Or do you just prefer to wait for men to take care of you?

We don’t. We take care of ourselves.

Want to remind people where all the political-blogging women are? Post the blogroll, if you want.

Short version (15 random):

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Long version (the full list):

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UPDATE: Sorry about the problem with the code; Wordpress keeps sticking a space in the blogroll URL. Make sure you remove the space that’s in there–there should be no spaces in the code!

UPDATE: While I obviously disagree with the premise that there’s something inherently more sexist about right-wingers than left-wingers (fair is fair, though–I don’t pull any punches with the left), Jane Hamsher gives Ellen Goodman a good thrashing at Firedoglake, too. (Thanks to Janette for the link.) She was at YearlyKos–the same place Goodman saw as infested with white males–and didn’t get that impression at all. And while I’m no fan at all of the politics at FDL (shocker!), it’s hardly an obscure knitting blog, and it’s run by women. There are plenty of other women who blog general politics (rather than “women’s issues” ) on the left; I didn’t omit them as much as I didn’t really feel like adding more to an already too-long post. There’s FDL, Talk Left, Hullabaloo, Taylor Marsh, and yeah, Pandagon (I still say Amanda’s more women-centric, and sucks, but nevertheless she’s there and very well-known), Shakespeare’s Sister/Shakesville, Pam’s House Blend, and plenty of others.

Apparently the (il)liberal Ellen Goodman doesn’t even read lefty female bloggers. What a dumbass. So I ask again, what has she done for us lately?

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• God Bless the USA

  • Posted by Beth on July 4th, 2007 filed in Cotillion, General, Support this
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I admit it, I’m not up to posting today thanks to Playstation giving me aching hands and arms. :heehee:
So…you get a half-assed Fourth of July-ish theme for today (hey, gimme a break, it’s just the WP Default with some little changes, and it’s just for one day). Thank God for Martin keeping this place going, right?!

Other things to read:

• Something…And Half of Something: Defining Patriotism
• Blue Star Chronicles: Happy Fourth of July
• PC-Free Zone: US Birthday 231 Years Old and 300 Million Invited
• PC-Free Zone: Happy Independence Day, America!
• Fausta’s Blog: Happy Independence Day
• The American Princess: The Shot Heard Round the World
• Cathouse Chat: The Fourth of July (2007 Edition)
• Darleen’s Place: Happy Birthday to the Greatest Nation on Earth
• And Rightly So: The first 4th of July (1776)
• Merri Musings: Happy Birthday, USA

(UPDATE: More!)

• Agent Bedhead: Requisite Fourth Of July Post
• Alabama Improper: 4th of July Fireworks
• Kiss My Gumbo (Hooah Wife): Happy 4th!
• Knowledge is Power (SondraK): Independence Day Playlist (she’s got other posts all throughout the day too, of course!)
• Photos by Seawitch: Independence Day (fly that flag!)
• Thoughts by Seawitch: Let Freedom Ring!
• Villainous Company: Fireworks

(End update.)

If you’ve got five minutes, thank someone who carries on the tradition of those who fought for this nation’s independence. For all they do, it’s the least we can do to show our appreciation.

 

I know this song has become sort of a corny cliché to some, but I don’t care. I am thankful for and unabashedly corny as hell about America. I’m proud to be an American, and I’d proudly defend her still today. God bless the USA!

• Taunt the Terrorists Tuesday: The Sands of Passion

  • Posted by Beth on June 26th, 2007 filed in Cotillion, Funny, General, Insult the Islamotards, Islamofascism, Video
  • 6 Comments »

Must-see sorta-teevee: The Sands of Passion, a terrorist soap opera! :rofl:

See more:

• Episode 1 at Something…And Half of Something (LindaSoG)
• Episode 2 at Girl on the Right
• Episode 3 at Blue Star Chronicles (BSC Beth)
• Episode 5 at PC Free Zone (Wild Thing)
• Episode 6 at Yeah, Right, Whatever (Beth W.)

More episodes at National Banana!

• Bleh

  • Posted by Beth on May 23rd, 2007 filed in Cotillion, General
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Sorry, I’ve got nothin’. Read Martin’s post below, then find something here to read until I get motivated later today (unless Martin or someone else posts again!).

• White Trash Wednesday: Kid Rock does the news

  • Posted by Beth on January 3rd, 2007 filed in Celebrities, Cotillion, General, Journalism, Video, WTF, White Trash Wednesday
  • 1 Comment »

I forgot about this (I meant to post it last week or something), but Phin jogged my memory today with this at Agent Bedhead.


Cotillion classes my ass, pal. :mrgreen:

• Christmas Eve

  • Posted by Martin on December 24th, 2006 filed in Celebrities, Cotillion, General, Martin
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And I just had to leave the beach, it was too damn hot.

Saw Linda last night, what a top lady! We got to eat Cuban food, then drink c*cktails and watch the bizarre goings-on in the Skybar at South Beach! Crrrrraaazzyyy.

Matt Damon was in the hotel last night. Linda was unimpressed, I was impressed.

Merry Christmas Beth, and anybody else stopping by.

• Trampling On The Tiara

  • Posted by Vinnie on December 15th, 2006 filed in Awards, Blogs, Cotillion, Vinnie
  • 5 Comments »


Oh NO! The MAN kicked our ASS!!!!!

Oh…so solly, Cotillion chicks.

What’s ironic is that I was nominated by a Cotillion chick, and endorsed by a Cotillion chick.

Jockstrap media RULES!!!!!!!!

:mrgreen:

• Grrrl Power!

  • Posted by Beth on December 12th, 2006 filed in Awards, Blogs, Cotillion, General, Links
  • 1 Comment »



Do we Cotillion chicks rock, or what?!

• The Cotillion carnival is back!

  • Posted by Beth on October 29th, 2006 filed in Blogs, Carnivals, Cotillion, General
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Blue Star mom Beth (of Blue Star Chronicles) has been busy lately. Not only has she been keeping tabs on her deployed son (as well as she can) and writing about war while thinking of how General Sherman understood “total war,” she’s put together a carnival for the Cotillion! Or as she appropriately calls it, Cotillion Colloquy.

We do so much talking–er, writing–in our email group that the carnivals have gone by the wayside for quite some time, mostly because we spend half the day in email with each other! But Beth got a wild hair yesterday and has now posted a wrap-up of what some of us have been writing about lately. (She was way too generous with me in her post!) Anyway, many thanks to BSC Beth* for doing it, and doing such a great post!





CLICK!

* Since we have four Beths in Cotillion, we all have to have our own Beth ID’s. Beths Rule! :mrgreen:

• Halloween Hammertime!

  • Posted by Beth on October 26th, 2006 filed in Blogs, Cotillion, Funny, General, Politics, Video
  • 1 Comment »

Mary Katharine Ham is WAY too good for YouTube videos. She ought to have her own show on teevee!

I’m dyin’ about the MST3K takeoff on Dirty Harry Ford!!! THAT is what videoblogging should look like!