Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

May 11, 2005

Plane Scare

Filed under: Government — Bunker @ 4:19 pm

By now, most of you have heard the story of the plane flying over DC. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey is upset that they’ve never had any drills for evacuating the Capitol. Neil Cavuto (one of my favorites) takes him and others to task:

To me, you sounded more concerned that you had to exit with the minions, than the fact that you and the minions survived.

Neil is right. Can you imagine all these self-important Senators being rushed out of session only to find out they were involved in a drill? I’m sure the good senator from New Jersey means there should be evacuations drills on a regular basis–such as when Congress isn’t in session. Once all the minions know how to act, the senators can simply follow their lead in a real emergency.

Dem Bloggers

Filed under: Media — Bunker @ 8:36 am

Mark sent me a link to his site where he posts the CNN story that commented on Bunker Mulligan.

Mark also made the point that we don’t agree on everything. I told him that’s fine–we need to hear different points of view. How can we ever be certain our opinion is valid if we cannot compare it to different ones?

Thanks for the heads-up, Mark. I’ll probably get more hits from your post than from the show’s mention. And thanks to Jacki for spending some time here.

**** UPDATE ****

Just checked stats from yesterday–lowest hit count of the month so far, although page views were up. So much for a huge bump from the CNN story!

Culture

Filed under: Society-Culture — Bunker @ 8:13 am

Some thoughts deserve to be read in their entirety, but I’ll provide a small taste to get you to go there:

Culture is the Operating System for the human being.

May 10, 2005

I’m Famous

Filed under: Golf,Media — Bunker @ 5:27 pm

Tim McDonald at TravelGolf takes a look at golf bloggers, and I’m #3 on the list:

Bunkermulligan.net is a right-wing Nazi masquerading as a blogger….

You know you’ve made the big time when someone calls you a Nazi. They aren’t even smart enough to know that Nazis are socialists, mostly following Marxist dictate.

That follows hot on the heels of CNN contacting me about featuring this blog on “Inside Politics” along with other right-wing blogs. That has a few of the left-wing bloggers pretty upset, as I discovered searching for info on the program. One went to the trouble to do an audit and found that twice as many conservative blogs are featured on the program as are “progressive” blogs. The comments to his post reflect a great deal of angst about this. All are certain CNN is trying to out-Fox FoxNews. They really shouldn’t be concerned. I didn’t get any kind of bump in hits from being mentioned on the program.

They found me through my latest post on the Arianna Project, which must have been the feature for the day. Not the best television from what I’ve found–two women sitting in front of monitors looking at sites. I appreciate the mention, although I’m not sure it will help their ratings.

Hollywood Capitalists

Filed under: Media — Bunker @ 9:20 am

Arianna touted her new blog as a money machine to the Hollywood elite who often tell us that money and consumerism is bad:

Though press reports have made it seem as if PRmeister Ken Lerer was more or less solely funding Huffington’s blog, I’ve learned that she was hoping that Hollywood would initially invest at least $500,000 in $100,000 increments. “She framed it to them as an opportunity to invest, to share in something we’re launching, to be with friends,” one source told me. “My sense was she knew that the people wouldn’t evaluate it as they would a real business deal, like an investment in stock or real estate, but as a friend to help her. If they’re looking to just make money, there are smarter places.”

Blogs aren’t money machines. They are a voice for those of us who can’t gain access to a microphone or pages in Time or People the way these folks can. I signed on with Roger L. Simon as a way to associate with the cream of the blogosphere, not as a means of making money. The one thing that troubled me about the whole thing was the concept of putting ads on this blog.

I just don’t think someone like Arianna will be happy with the amount of money she might earn. Her annual income for the blog probably won’t pay for a single trip to her hair stylist.

Spy vs. Spy

Filed under: International — Bunker @ 5:53 am

I have always been a bit wary of Arthur. Surely he must be some kind of operative. A Pole living in Oz? Who could write such a script. It must be real.

Streams

Filed under: General — Bunker @ 5:49 am

Wallace has a really neat story today.

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