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What? Do people still read Powerline?
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Posted on: October 16, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Someone compiled a list of the most popular Minnesota blogs. Pharyngula is number two. That would be OK, except that number one is that awful exercise in Bush sycophancy, Powerline.
I'm sorry to have to put this burden on you, but you're going to have to read this site twice as often, and you're going to have to show your grandma how to subscribe to it, because, really, Powerline is so creakingly archaic. We need to pass them by.
At least they don't bring up evolution any more, since the last time they got spanked.
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Good luck with that, PZ. If you succeed, does that prove there is no god?
Posted by: truthilicious | October 16, 2007 6:57 AM
My favorite nickname for Powerline is from Clown Central Station--Butt Propulsion Laboratories. Which comes from John Hinderaker's self-given nickname of Hindrocket...or as Left Blogistan likes to rechristen him: Assrocket.
Posted by: Simba B | October 16, 2007 6:59 AM
I bet Pharyngula is much more popular outside the US (Minnesota?) than Powerline. The list only reveals that Pharyngula has 484 subscribers less who use Google Reader. However, I will send my grandma an e-mail.
Posted by: Don Quijote | October 16, 2007 7:24 AM
Does it take into account RSS feeds? It could just be that more Pharyngula readers are aggregator-savvy.
Posted by: incunabulum | October 16, 2007 7:31 AM
Very funny. Truthy, outright.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | October 16, 2007 7:42 AM
My modest offering is a relatively unread Minnesota blog. I could only wish I had more readers than Powerline.
Or just readers, period. :grins:
Posted by: Paul | October 16, 2007 7:50 AM
Assuming that the guy who compiled that list got it right, PZ has added 373 subscribers so far this morning. Not bad.
But where's Greg Laden on that list? He should be No. 7
Posted by: IanR | October 16, 2007 8:44 AM
Tis a puzzle - Powerline.
I actually logged in to see what all the fuss was about, and then I remembered why I never log in to Powerline. Maybe there is some kind of robotized computer programmed to log in there?
PZ is so industrious that it is hard to keep up, but I will try harder.
Ciao,
Bonzo
Posted by: bonzo | October 16, 2007 9:18 AM
Good luck with that, PZ. If you succeed, does that prove there is no god?
Umm, yes if it is successful then yeah it would prove there is no god, lol. Thanks for shopping. :P
Posted by: 386sx | October 16, 2007 9:25 AM
Uh-oh.
Bad Astronomy Blog
1,166 subscribers
Posted by: CalGeorge | October 16, 2007 10:05 AM
Didn't Powerline launch Pajamas Media? There was celebrating and parties and then...
It went down like the titanic. I avoid that place like the ebola virus. The paranoid whiney ass titty babies are only good for a laugh in small doses.
Posted by: Steve_C | October 16, 2007 10:42 AM
Being a long time fan of Husker Du, I see Minnesota and Powerline, all I can think of is their album "New Day Rising".
If you are so inclined, here is Husker Du doing three songs from that album; 'Terms Of Psychic Warfare', 'Powerline' and 'Books About UFOs'. 'Powerline' starts at 2:00. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_LxJBX7z8
Posted by: Janine | October 16, 2007 12:45 PM
This is a horribly crude and biased measure of popularity. I didn't even *know* Google has a RSS reader. This is like trying to identify traffic volume through an intersection by counting all the green Chevys.
Posted by: BruceJ | October 16, 2007 12:56 PM
I used to read Powerline. One day (and this was long before I started reading Pharyngula) one of them posted something like "so just because I don't believe in evolution, that makes me less credible?" I thought about it, realized, "yeah, actually, it does." Other than following a link once or twice, I haven't been back.
Posted by: jdb | October 16, 2007 4:53 PM
Why is there a pic of a guy standing on the Marin side of the Golden Gate Bridge on a Minnesota blog?
Or is that some bridge that just looks like the GG?
Posted by: coathangrrr | October 16, 2007 5:19 PM
This is genius.
Perfecting Ann Coulter.
http://www.maxim.com/PerfectingAnnaCoulter/articles/7638.aspx?src=REDT:UTd
Posted by: Steve_C | October 16, 2007 5:50 PM