Monthly Archives September 2007

They’re watching…

Honestly, I was a little afraid that the evil Nigerian scam artists were going to hunt me down and try to hurt me for wasting their precious time. And I may be right. What does Google Analytics have to say about visitors to www.ThisisConlan.com? Damn my selfish pride (and impeccable comedic instincts)! Now I’m scared. [...]

And that makes three

Blogs are supposed to have a theme, some underlying purpose, a reason for existence. At least the ones that anyone would read have this. (That’s not strictly true; one of my favorites, The Hot Librarian, doesn’t really have a cohesive theme… maybe that’s why she hasn’t posted since April.) This was always a problem for [...]

An Anti-Democracy Screed

A Republican-backed initiative would apportion California’s electoral votes by congressional district, rather than “winner-take-all.” This is a great example of no one having any principles other than “I want to win!” Who do you suppose I’m talking about with a sentence like that? The answer: everyone. The Republican backers of the initiative would clearly not [...]

Blog of Contrition

Well, I guess I dropped the ball on that one. No post yesterday. Not even a pseudo-post. I fell asleep early. Let that be a lesson to you: sleep is the devil’s perspiration. It’s wet and stinky. Like Satan. I don’t know where I’m going with this. Anyway, my apologies. I’ll make it up to [...]