William Safire: Know Thine Enemy

In today's New York Times Magazine, old conservative fart columnist William Safire wastes space by trying to explain blogging terms in an article he titles "Blargon". How cute. And, how utterly, utterly boring. "Linky love"?? What the hell is that?

As far as I'm concerned, Safire's article could have saved the masses severe ennui and Your Eyes Glazing Over Dramatically Syndrome (YEGODS) by simply publishing one thing: a link to Blogossary. By practicing his own version of "linky love", he could have spared his latest jewel from ending up on the bottom of every NYT subscriber's bird cage. Do we bloggers have a term for bird sh*t? Maybe Blogossary can enlighten me.

Sidebar: Wes Felter over at Hack This Planet says, "Somebody needs to fact-check his [Safire's] ass" because he screwed up the origin of the term "blog". Oh, and by the way Mr Safire, the term "sidebar" as I have used it here, refers to this definition of the word. You forgot that tidbit in your article when you tried to explain how bloggers have desecrated the precious MSM's definition of the term.