I have yet to listen to it, but my old debate coach and former fellow WRUV DJ posted “this radio show”:http://collegeofmusicalknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/08/1984-08-17-atomic-mixpost-nuclear-party.html from 1984 that’s all about nuclear weapons.
I am thinking seriously about making this blog mostly about WMD and heavy metal.
about posting documents and going meta every now and again. I figure I’ve earned the right to pontificate a little after all these years.
I did not know about “Arms Control TV”:http://www.armscontrol.org/armscontroltv until just now.
I used to be on TV too. Just saying.
I’ve got some irons…
His departure has made me quite sad. You all know that he’s got a gift for Teh Blogging, so read him at ACW or wherever else he may end up; personally, I hope he takes an ACW commenter’s suggestion and starts a blog called Complete Pollacks.
I always knew Josh was smart, but I didn’t realize that he’s really fucking funny as well.
Blogs aid news reporting, but likely will not/ought not supplant traditional news outlets. They have, however, made progress in marginalizing the established punditocracy.
Yes, I am reduced to being meta this morning.
*Josh adds:*
To elaborate on Paul’s comment a bit, there is potential for symbiosis with news reporting in the traditional outlets, however long they’re still with us. A specialized blog like this one can contribute to the accuracy and sophistication of the “coverage”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1979/pk-in-the-lat it also “feeds upon”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2024/a-second-blog. Failing that, it’s also good for “cursing”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2038/mis-reporting-north-korea the “darkness”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2027/the-disappointing-new-york-times.
In Paul’s case, of course, it’s just not meta, but “death”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2033/arthimoth “meta”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2032/blog-future.
At least we can have some Iranian death metal:
Devising a new one. Suggestions are welcome.
*Update:*
I can’t blog about arms control, so some meta-thinking is, unfortunately, in order. We rarely get meta around here, but that’s what it’s come to.
I’m moving up “this”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2010/m-rubin-on-iran post and “this”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2011/m-rubin-crs-and-this-blog post, in case anyone cares about why this blog went offline for a bit. I think false charges need to be responded to, so I wanna make these a touch more prominent. If you don’t care, please read Josh’s stuff because it’s more interesting.
I am not speaking for anyone or anything except myself.
Unrelatedly, here is, I believe, the shortest music video ever:
Their drummer once told me a pretty funny story about the police searching their van in NC.
*Update:*
Elevated from comments:
“[Rubin wrote something about me a]nd named zero factual errors [in anything I have written]. FAIL.”
*Later Update:*
No one from Brutal Truth had anything to do with this blog post or, to my knowledge, any USFG products.
Man, Elaine Grossman is mean.
I’m glad her recent “GSN piece”:http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20090529_3404.php about North Korea linked to “this post”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2023/surprise-intel-failure by Josh, but she didn’t have to refer to this site, humble though it may be, as “a second blog.” Just saying.
Some seem to think that the name of this blog might not be family friendly, but I think they have dirty minds.
This post does not reflect the views of any part of any government.
Josh adds: The possibility, however slight, that this post reflects the views of the Dept. of Parks and Recreation in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, should not be overlooked.
I was certainly flattered by the high-profile attention. So much so that I started hearing this song, playing in my head.