Comments on: Missing Link (somewhat belated)

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:58:04 +0000

James
My reference was to ‘Hollywood leftism’. That’s a particular sub-species like ‘anarcho-syndicalism’.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:33:39 +0000

Heh. The librarian anxiety comment was mine. I’m like the stereotypical American outlaw on the lam — wanted in 15 states ….

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:15:31 +0000

I have been a bit tardy in expressing my thanks for the now several recommendations of my blog in this forum. So, thank you. I’m glad I’m not the only one hiding from librarians…

By: tigtog

tigtog — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:11:29 +0000

Bugger, the poor old crippled blog ate my charming earlier comment which positively scintilated with effervescent wit. Nevermind.

James, you’re a shameless (and forgiven) honeydripper.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:12:33 +0000

What is leftist about romanticising poverty, JS? If you just mean a certain bias against consumerism, or a greater predisposition to notice the merits of traditional technologies in certain cases, that’s fair. But the left is in favour of good toilets.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:46:49 +0000

My fault, tigtog. I knew about Lauredhel, but wasn’t paying attention this time. And it was good enough to be yours.

By: pommygranate

pommygranate — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:58:29 +0000

thanks SL! election results on Thursday - will be interesting to see how much progress they make.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:26:02 +0000

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes, y’all. The blogging community has enhanced my late-forties enormously and I intend it to continue well into whenever. Lochiem. Y’all totally rock.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:16:16 +0000

Because Austrolabe often does not credit individual posters, we do not know who puts up individual posts/guest posts and what his or her views of them are. I note that you ran Dr Ali’s piece before the Australian, the publication for which it was commissioned. That suggests a degree of cooperation with somebody, at least to this humble hack.

I will also say that I noted a lively difference of opinion on the site, and that you don’t appear to have ’sunk’ (or driven) many of Dr Ali’s views (or those of Irfan Yusuf, either, who also took issue with you). Maybe this was because you disagreed so strongly with Dr Ali that you didn’t write your response particularly clearly.

And finally, I’d prefer it if you kept your intra-Islamic stoushes to your own blog. Missing Link is meant to take readers to other blogs. That is its raison d’etre.

By: Baybers

Baybers — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:00:48 +0000

Thanks, club troppo

There are a couple of things that I wish to clarify

1. I would rather request my pet rock or the insane ramblings of a catatonic schizophrenic to write a guest post on my website ahead of Ameer Ali.

2. Ipso facto we only put up his essay so that we could line it up with a 1 wood and drive that turd into trees, which I took great pleasure in doing.

3. Ameer Ali’s essay is shit, and the reason we know it is because the more one plays with it, the more it stinks

4. I suggest you re-read his essay and my response to it.

Thank you for your continued support of our website, it is most welcome.

By: gandhi

gandhi — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:54:32 +0000

What, not a word about how I ripped both Tim Dulop and The Man Of Lettuce to shreds this week? Don’t make me come after you next, Club Troppo! I am on the warpath, you know… a mad, crazy fool, spewing his pseudo-pacifist bile in all directions like a froth juggernaut … or something.

Maybe you should have a Club Troppo “Bloggertainment” section, specifically for shallow-minded blogs like mine, which just seek to profit tabloid-style from ripping into easy targets?

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:41:28 +0000

Ahhh, that’d be me. I’m the one with the stats major. (Runs away)

By: Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:32:26 +0000

Andrew Norton provides some excellent cliometrics on the recent allegation that Fair Trade Coffee isnâ€™t as fair as itâ€™s cracked up to be

I think that’s the second use of the word “cliometrics” in this forum in as many weeks. Not that I’m objecting, mind. It’s a beautiful word.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:56:49 +0000

Lauredhel came on board in March. There was an announcement post, but probably because she’s more well known in the LiveJournal community it didn’t stand out.

Anyways, she’s a good ‘un.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:46:39 +0000

Whoops, I’ll go in and edit. Didn’t know you’d become a group blog!

By: tigtog

tigtog — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:43:49 +0000

Thanks for the link to the post on active/passive language in reporting gendered violence, but that was actually written by my new co-blogger at Hoyden About Town, Lauredhel, and not by me. I agree it’s an excellent post, and folks should check out some of her other posts as well.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:33:20 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for the regular plugs. I try to cover the films that get little mainstream coverage (or any coverage, for that matter), so every little bit helps.