Terra Extraneus

Traffic to TerraX is way up today. What’s the occasion? Slate, the online magazine owned by the Washington Post, quoted me in an article about President Bush’s bill-signing statements. Here’s the Slate article, “Attorneys Against Bush”; TerraX is mentioned in the fourth paragraph. The article references my post yesterday: “Bar Association Slams Bush for Disregard of Law.”

Funny that Slate references the “liberal-leaning Terra Extraneus.” A glance at our featured articles at the top of the homepage shows we may lean left on immigration and government assistance programs, but are right as rain on abortion, for example. A more thorough reading of our blog would confirm what we say on our “About” page: “Don’t be too quick to pigeonhole our politics.”

However, in the modern political discussion, there are only two categories, red and blue, conservative and liberal, and doggonit, we’re going to shove you into one category or the other, whether you like it or not. See: “Which Political Category Should We Shove You Into?” See also, “Confessions of a Liberal, err, Left-of-Center Idealist.”

Oh well, as they say, all publicity is good publicity. And they spelled my name right. I’d be much more cool and much less honest if didn’t admit that being quoted in a national publication made my day.