(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
Control
[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Internet commentator Andrew Sullivan loses it completely today, The New York Times's decision to have one has-been instead of another submit an op-ed on the eve of the "first anniversary of September 11" being the felling blow. "Sontag and Raines ... together at last," he notes before moving on - though he doesn't get very far when moving on, commiting one yawn-worthy entry on Pilger and Vidal before invoking the "Raines Times" (how novel!). A few fractions of a thought later (that being five whole posts), Sullivan notes a supposed "convergence" between Susan Sontag's "Raines Times" effort and Paul Krugman's of the same day, presumably attempting to discredit Krugman by placing him in Sontag's disreputable company. Krugman's effort seems well-reasoned and wholly sensible to us, though we're not jilted exes driven to the verge of lunacy be our own autogenic obsolescence - an obsolescence we furnish proof for by repeating the same ridiculous nonsense day after day after day... posted by Anonymous5:41 PM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.