It's now a quarter of a decade since I started this blog.
Originally it was just a web page for my comments on John Lott's Mysterious Survey. I figured that the survey issue would be resolved in a few weeks and I could shut it down then, but that doesn't seem to have happened.
Thanks to the Internet Archive you can see what my blog looked like when it was three weeks old.
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After discussion has simmered along via email, Usenet and mailing list, Marie Gryphon has posted a nice summary on her blog.
Several blogs have picked up on this: Julian Sanchez, Jim Henley, Jane Galt, Kevin Drum and Thomas M. Spencer.
Clayton Cramer has posted a letter from John Lott on his…
Lott's responses to Michelle Malkin's op-ed are in a fixed-width font, while my comments on his response are in italics like this. Lott's responses were downloaded on 25 April 2005.
Below is Malkin's op-ed with commentary by me (my comments are indented and in italics and start…
Over at the History News Network, a die hard Bellesiles supporter who posts under the name "Benny Smith" has attacked James Lindgren for, get this, his "ill-fated attempt to defend" Lott. Here's Smith's version of what happened:
After serious questions arose regarding a…
Last December I examined a posting by John Ray who dismissed ozone depletion as a "Greenie scare" using facts he seemed to have just made up by himself. Now he's back, attacking gun control. This time he's not using facts that he made up---he's using facts that Lott made up. He quotes…
The link to the old page doesn't appear to work.
Weird. It was working before... I've replaced it with a cached copy.
That's better! Looks just as I remember it. Tim, if it wasn't for Lott's "survey", do you think you'd ever have started the blog?
"Quarter of a decade"-- that makes it sound rooly, rooly old.
Long may you be a thorn in the side of people like Tim Blair and the astroturfists.
That. Was. Basic.
Wow! 25 years. Congratulations. I was happy to hit one year. You're an internet pioneer. I'm sending you your virtual raccoon-skin hat and Bowie knife.