God's Own Crunk

Of the various conservatives I link to, I doubt anyone got more link love than Mr. Surber. His politics aligned quite well with my own, and he’s a wonderful writer and thinker. I saw his brief statement on my Reader just now and was saddened that he’s done blogging. z’GOC isn’t particularly politics-focused, but I pass on what I find interesting and, when the mood strikes, pontificate. There will be less to pass along without Mr. Surber blogging.

Kathy Shaidle turns out humorous, thought-provoking prose on a regular basis over at Taki’s, clearly the favorite of what the Internet has to offer here at z’GOC. Here’s another gem from Shaidle, regarding the PUA community and hate-speech 101:

Not that most males in the manosphere would find me appealing or sympathetic. Part of my fascination with these fellows—I read many of these sites regularly—stems from the fact that I’ve never been “hit on” or so much as whistled at on the street, so I have a spectator’s curiosity in these complex mating rituals. Some of their tales of conquest sound exaggerated, but their foundational principles about seduction are based on what we used to call human nature. With a few tweaks for tone and obscenity, their cruel, crude, yet commonsensical observations about sexual call-and-response are identical to what you’ll hear each week on Dennis Prager’s “Male-Female Hour.”

via Turning Cads Into Klansmen – Taki’s Magazine.

I have a couple minor projects going on right now, hence the light posting of late. I just finished the Kindle “version” of Free Love for Sale, and as soon as it’s approved and verified available at Amazon I’ll be pushing it like beer-flavored meth. [h/t to DWH for pointing KDP out to me /brex]

Also, I’m polishing up Doin’ It Wrong and hope to have it available by the weekend. For the uninitiated, Doin’ It Wrong is my online dating profile optimization guide aimed at womynz, and no, it’s not a joke (toooootally for realz, and totally inexpensive). All of that depends on me keeping my motivation, but I think that’s pretty much secure – so, why not release a guide related to the fine art on digitally Landing A Man right before Valentine’s Day, no?

So that, as they say, is that.

WP informed me they’ve been watching z’GOC for some time, and because of its strange traffic, it qualifies for an ads program. I figure I’ll make enough money each year to buy a pack of cigaretttes, but as I was telling a fellow Crunkster recently, I’ve been waiting my whole life for an opportunity to sell out, and that time is now.

A bag of silver coins would be nice, but a few pennies of ad money will do just fine.

Enjoy. I’m picking New Olreans and New England today, and while I won’t pick the Giants game, I’m rooting and piking the Texans in tomorrow’s AFC Matchup.

Let’s get our Playoffs on – GO GIANTS!

I saw this over at Instapundit. After reading the commentary, I went to this (also via Instapundit), read the EFFers statement, and then read the comments. Righteous indignation, pissedoffedness, and dark hilarity ensues.

FWIW, I’ve never read any of the blogs in question, but were I Aussie Dave, I’d be furious as well. If you don’t wanna sort through all that business, just go to the comments at the second link and enjoy the veal.

Instapundit has WordPress’s release (which they sent to him) about the whole ordeal.

I’ve used WP for 16 months now, and z’GOC was shutdown once because I made a post about what some consider to be a scam. I protested, and my site was turned back on. As to publishing info about Anons who comment at your site, that’s just lame. I don’t get a lot of comments so it’s easy for me to say, but you can always a) delete them or b) close comments or even c) make commenters register. I do none of that, because I like Anon culture and wish people online realized how precious that is. Although most of my reasons for getting off Facebook were shallow, the one conviction I have regarding Facebook is that it’s ruining the joys of Anon:

This sounds right. Is publishing commenters’ information wrong? Yes, unless the commenters have been threatening or abusive, in which case I think it’s fine. Were they? I don’t know — because when I went to the site it had been taken down. Anyway, WordPress seems to have done the right thing.

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