For two years now I’ve been blogging. Over at the Bloglomerate, there’s a “Year in Pictures” gallery, so you can revisit your favorite posts of the last year. The only problem there is, some of my own favorite posts over the past year had no pictures (or at least none worthy of the gallery), and so couldn’t be included in the gallery. Here are a few posts I liked, in words.

• The Birth of Beatrice
• Hilarious Buckley bio by David Brooks
• Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Goodness with Gleeson Readership in Countries Beginning with U
• Rumsfeld uses hyperlinks on domestic Web pages
• God and Bates in Tulsa
• Kansas bigot invents crazy attack story
• Grammar exercise
• Dialogue deleted from 9/11 miniseries
• Guide to Innocent Britishisms That Sound Obscene in English
• Saddam’s novel excerpt
• Mazzio’s makes good
• Re: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
• Why Mommy is a Moonbat
• U.N.: Gleeson to retain control of Internet

Pajamas Media is still taking votes for renaming the X21s. I still endorse the word “hybrids.” There is no indication of when the voting period will end, and no running tally of votes so far.

But just look at the new exclusive P.J. interview with Joe Lieberman! It’s a great interview, and quite a coup for our fledgling news syndicate, and you should watch it. But also notice how P.J. is describing it:

Senator Joseph Lieberman … is likely to be the front-running political hybrid in the 2006 race … This is the first of a series of interviews Pajamas Media will be doing with politically hybrid individuals.

The P.J. people have already started using “hybrid” in their reportage. This can only mean that:

1. They will be going with the “hybrids” label; or

2. They will be going with that ghastly “PHI” acronym; or

3. They aren’t going with either of those labels, even though their own reporting proves “hybrids” is the most apposite descriptor of the X21 class.

If you haven’t done so yet, please go vote for “hybrids”!

One difference between abortionists and prolifers is, prolifers volunteer to be prolife, but abortionists get paid to be abortionists. It’s surely not the most important difference between the two groups, but it can make a huge difference in their ability to spread their respective messages.

This election year in South Dakota, Planned Parenthood has so far invested $8 million in overturning that state’s recently enacted abortion ban. And if that $8 million runs out, there’s plenty more lucre where it came from. Planned Parenthood rakes in $100 million every year from its baby-snuffing franchise.

Opposing this monster is the ad-hoc advocacy group Vote Yes For Life, who currently have about $89,000 at their disposal.

As David Bereit says:

If ever there was a time when Christians should join together to pray, volunteer and invest to protect every child in the womb, the time is now and the place is South Dakota. That’s why I’m praying each day for South Dakota. That’s why I’m making sacrifices to send as much money as I can to South Dakota. And that’s why I’m taking my family out to South Dakota to volunteer in the final days leading up to the November 7 election. What happens in South Dakota will affect the future of America, and on November 8, I want to be sure I can wake up, look myself in the mirror, and know I did everything I could to make a difference. Won’t you join me?

Yes I will, David! Well, no, not join you in the taking my family to South Dakota part, but I’ll join you in praying each day, at the very least.

A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the laudable Pajamas Media contest of Labeling the X21s, those heretofore unclassed persons who are neither conservative nor liberal. The P.J. people have narrowed the submissions down to thirteen contenders, and are inviting the public to vote on the best. To aid you in your voting, I will inform you why “HYBRIDS” is best.
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It has been noted in Oklahoma and elsewhere, that Oklahoma boasts more good blogs than one would expect from the state’s population. Does this assertion stand up to analysis? And if so, what is the reason for this superiority? My answers are in this excerpt from my “Introduction to Blogging” workshop, at the Okie Blogger Round-up on Sept. 23. Nobody shot video, but I combined still images with an edited audio recording to re-create what the Okie blogger attendees enjoyed that day.

I posted another excerpt, “The History of Blogging,” yesterday.

The audio is an edited excerpt of the recording by Bill Bauer. The images are taken from my own slideshow, plus the photos posted at the Okie Blogger Round-up Flickr page, by Kevin Latham, Michael Bates, Don Danz, and Bill Bauer. Thanks, guys.

If you want to embed this movie into your own web page, you may use this code:

My “Introduction to Blogging” workshop, at the Okie Blogger Round-up on Sept. 23, included a funny take on “The History of Blogging.” Nobody shot video, but I combined still images with an edited audio recording to re-create what the Okie blogger attendees enjoyed that day.

The audio is an edited excerpt of the recording by Bill Bauer. The images are taken from my own slideshow, plus the photos posted at the Okie Blogger Round-up Flickr page, by Kevin Latham, Michael Bates, Don Danz, and Bill Bauer. Thanks, guys.

If you want to embed this movie into your own web page, you may use this code: