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found in the pit: huh?

Nanette — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:23:16 +0000

This seriously made me laugh:

Don’t speak too soon: I’ve been reading this clown for months now and this is probably the only time he doesn’t soak a discussion about Civil War history with melodrama about slavery.

Dog forbid one should clog up discussions of Civil War history with “melodrama” about slavery.

No link. I did some looking around the forum where I found this (following a link from a link to something I was interested in) and it’s not a place I would send either of my two readers to, or anyone else.

Oh, the “clown” he is talking about is Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic, who has been having some amazing discussions on his blog about Civil War history, the characters… and what I think makes these folks hopping mad – the primary cause.

conversation interrupted

Nanette — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:44:08 +0000

The Atlantic.com has made a big mistake, in my opinion. They’ve decided to remove all personality and reader hooks from their blogger pages (except for Andrew Sullivan’s)and make them almost unreadable. I guess to ensure that casual passersby keep on… well, passing by. It’s not clear to me why they would want to do this.

I really like Ta-Nehisi Coates and James Fallows, but it’s their writing that draws me in – not their headlines or post titles. I might not even plan to stop and read, but (with the old format) invariably something will catch my eye and I’ll have to finish reading the entire article, and sometimes most of the comments. It is less likely I’ll read so many of the articles now that I have to click through to every post.

It’s annoying. They should just let blogs be blogs, sigh.