Terra Extraneus

In an earlier post, I commented on my absence from blogging during the first two-thirds of 2007. In addition to posting no content during that time (thankfully, my blogging partner Rod Heggy kept the TerraX fires burning during my sabbatical), I made very few visits to other sites in the blogosphere. So now that I’m back, I’ve been catching up on what I missed at some of my favorite blogs.

Of course, one of my favorites is the political satire blog, Jon Swift. “Jon” describes himself as a “reasonable conservative” who gets his news from Fox, Limbaugh and Leno. I wrote a review of Jon Swift last year: “What If Archie Bunker Were a Blogger?” Catching up on Jon’s posts of the last few months, I excerpted these choice morsels:

• In “The Torture Race,” commenting on U.S. interrogation techniques since the advent of the war on terror, Swift explains the “morality gap”:

As long as we can say the terrorists are worse than we are, we have the moral high ground. But we cannot let them get too much worse than us or there will be a morality gap … So we need to stay just one small step behind the enemy in the torture race. If they ratchet up their interrogation techniques, we need to ratchet up ours, making sure that they always stay just a little bit more evil than us so that we can retain our moral superiority.

Finally, an explanation of the present administration’s escalation of torture tactics that makes sense!

• When President Bush vetoed expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Swift wrote, in “Bush to Kids: Grow Up!”:

While our enemies are preparing their youth to fight future jihads, we are lagging behind, pampering our kids and conditioning them to depend on the government. With this veto the President has stood up to Congress’ plans to turn more of our children into wards of the state by expanding SCHIP and started weaning them off of government dependence. Toughening up our children will make sure they are up to the task of fighting the wars of the future.

• In the same piece, Swift adds:

It’s better they learn now that the reason we have the best health care in the world is that we don’t just give it away to anyone. Imagine how unprepared our children would be when they grow up and discover that many adults don’t get to have any health care at all.

• In another post, Swift returns to the topic of health care:

Conservatives would rather struggle and be faced with terrible health care choices than to have no choice at all, which is what would happen under socialized medicine. Living in a free society means having the freedom to go into debt trying to pay for the cost of health care and having the choice to quit your job and take a job you hate because it offers health insurance … People who live in societies that have socialized medicine don’t have these kinds of choices.

• When Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress about progress in Iraq since “the surge,” Swift wrote that “Surges Take Time”:

Would [Petraeus testify] that the surge, a plan that he was one of the principal architects of, was a failure or a brilliant success? No one had any idea what his verdict would be on how good a job he has been doing at executing his own plan. … Petraeus finally gave us his objective analysis. The surge, he said unexpectedly, has been a surprising success and he praised the progress he has made in Iraq.

… But surges take time, Petraeus pointed out. … Did anyone say that the surge would be quick, moving like advancing waves or an unexpected increase in electric current? Surges, of course, don’t work that way.

Actually, the title said it all.

Is Jon Swift serious in the views he shares? Swift gets about a thousand readers a day (!), and one of the most fun things about his blog is reading that very question debated among his (sometimes clueless) readers in the comments section.

Even if Jon is dead serious about being a “reasonable conservative,” I have proof positive that he is capable of tongue-in-check moments. You see, when the 2007 Weblog Awards began accepting nominations last month, Jon immediately nominated Terra Extraneus as the world’s best law blog. What a cut-up! Come on, Jon, you’re killing me here.

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Jon Swift, one of the most astute conservative pundits on the Internet, is also a prophet. Astonishingly, three of his eight predictions for 2006 came true, qualifying him as the Nostradamus of the blogosphere. Swift has posted 25 predictions for 2007. Here are four of my favorites:

• Time magazine will select itself as Person of the Year.

• John Kerry repeatedly uses the n-word in a joke gone horribly wrong.

• In the season finale of Lost we discover that it was all a dream by Hurley who wakes up in Bob Newhart’s hotel.

• Whatever happens in 2007, you can be sure it would have been a lot worse and more people would have died if we had done something else.

The prophecies above are indeed thought-provoking. But what truly amazes is that Swift is so prescient that five of his prophecies for 2007 have already come true – even before the new year begins. Swift prophesied that:

• Pictures of Rudolph Giuliani in drag will surface, scuttling his plans to run for President.

• Congress will do nothing at all about Social Security or health care.

• The next six months in Iraq will prove to be critical for determining how the following six months are going to go.

• Temperatures will go down in February causing widespread doubt about global warming, but by July there will be renewed calls to do something about it.

• Recruitment shortfalls lead the Pentagon to hire temps to fill some positions and outsource some work to the Indian military.

One can only tremble in wonderment regarding a prophet so keen that his prophecies have come true even before he makes them. Check out the rest of Jon Swift’s vision for 2007 here.

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Terra Extraneus asks our readers to support three of our favorite blogs and one fellow Oklahoma blog by casting your votes in the 2006 Weblog Awards. Voting is held online from Dec. 7-15. You can vote once each day (from every computer you have access to). Just follow the links below (in all caps) to vote for:

• Evangelical Outpost, written by Joe Carter, nominated for BEST INDIVIDUAL BLOG.
• Jon Swift, nominated for BEST HUMOR BLOG.
• Real Climate, written by an international team of PhDs, nominated for BEST SCIENCE BLOG.
• Sean Gleeson, written by an Oklahoma City artist and teacher, nominated for BEST IN THE 5001-6750 LEVEL of the “blogging ecosystem.”

For links to these posts and to read why TerraX is endorsing these outstanding blogs, see our earlier post: “Your Vote Counts…”

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Finalists for the 2006 Weblog Awards were announced today. Hundreds of blogs in dozens of categories are nominated, and the winners will be determined by online voting. Voting begins tomorrow and continues for 10 days, and you are welcome to vote in each category once each day.

Terra Extraneus encourages our readers to support three of our favorite blogs in the voting beginning tomorrow. They are:

• Evangelical Outpost, written by Joe Carter, nominated for Best Individual Blog. Last year E.O. was voted Best Religious Blog, but that category was eliminated this year. But Joe is still up for an award with his nomination for best individual blog. Joe, the Director of Web Communications for the evangelical conservative Family Research Council, blogs an interesting mix of conservative politics, evangelical faith and random trivia. E.O. is on TerraX’s “Must Read” blogroll. Check it out, and give it your vote starting tomorrow.

• Jon Swift, nominated for Best Humor Blog. If you are a regular TerraX reader, you know that I am a big Jon Swift fan. He is hilarious. Jon is a liberal in satirical sheep’s clothing. I read everything “Jon” writes and encourage you to do the same. (Here’s my review of Jon Swift: “What If Archie Bunker Were a Blogger?”) What truly amazes is that “Jon Swift” began his blog only one year ago, and he is already approaching his 200,000th visitor. Please join me in bringing the Jon Swift blog even more much-deserved attention by voting it the Best Humor Blog in the blogosphere.

• Real Climate, written by an international team of PhDs, is nominated for Best Science Blog. Real Climate covers global warming and other climate issues. The scientists do an excellent job of making the science of this complicated subject understandable. Anyone who wants to be up-to-speed on global warming should read Real Climate. This is one blog that truly is making a difference, so I hope you will give it your online vote.

• I want to mention one more blog: Sean Gleeson, nominated for best in the 5001-6750 level of the “blogging ecosystem.” I am not a regular Sean Gleeson reader, but I’m going to change that by adding him to the TerraX blogroll. Gleeson is an Oklahoma City artist and teacher. We Okie bloggers and blog readers should stick together, so I’m going to start reading Sean’s blog, and will give him my vote in the Awards.

Hope you will do the same.

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Nominations have opened for the 2006 Weblog Awards. Some observations:

• Terra Extraneus has been nominated for a Weblog Award. Ordinarily we would be delighted for any kind of recognition, but — neither Rod Heggy nor I own tuxes, and then there’s the whole thing about clearing space in the trophy case. More about our nomination in a moment.

• The Weblog Awards were launched in 2003 by Kevin Aylward, author of the popular Wizbang blog (about 30,000 visitors a day!). Last year almost half a million votes were cast in 37 categories. Here is more about the awards and how they work from Aylward.

• Nominations are made by the general public by entering a comment on the Weblog Award site. That means all the nominees and who nominated them are public information. Nominations close on Nov. 24, after which Aylward and the crack team of blog authorities he assembles will select 10 finalists in each category. Voting is conducted for 10 days in December, and any person on the planet with an Internet connection can vote once a day for 10 days. Vote totals are continuously updated on the site during the voting period.

• Terra Extraneus has been nominated in the “Best of the 1751-2500 Blogs” category. The name of that category is too big for a trophy — which works out fine, since no trophies are given. “1751-2500” refers to a blog’s rank in the blogosphere ecosystem. (I won’t attempt to explain the ecosystem here, except to refer you to The Truth Laid Bear.)

TerraX is currently ranked No. 2053. Out of the estimated 50 million blogs in the world? How in the heck did that happen? Well, if you knew, you’d be less than impressed. Okay, I’ll tell you. The rankings are based on incoming links. TTLB says TerraX has 154 incoming links — 154 other blogs link to us in their blogroll or elsewhere on their home page. Impressed? Don’t be. When we first opened for business last year, I immediately enrolled our blog in a couple of “blog networks” (e.g., Christian Bloggers). All the blogs in a network list each other on their sites, thus boosting each other’s incoming links. I could easily boost TerraX’s TTLB ranking some more just by enrolling in a couple more networks (Bald-Headed Bloggers? Bloggers Who Love Zydeco?). Personally, I think the TTLB rankings are meaningless and that blog traffic is the only stat that matters (our traffic is still at the slow trickle stage).

• Since nominations are made publicly, I know that TerraX was nominated by Jon Swift. Now that makes my day. Jon Swift is one of my favorite bloggers (See “What If Archie Bunker Were a Blogger?”), and his blog is a “must read” on the TerraX blogroll. Thanks, Jon.

I see that Jon Swift has been nominated in four categories so far: best new blog, best humor blog, best individual blog, and best in the 501-1000 category. That’s all fine and dandy, but I imagine Jon has been miffed that he hasn’t been nominated in the one category that matters to him most: “best conservative blog.” Well, I rectified that oversight this morning by making the nomination myself. “Jon Swift is the voice of conservative America,” I wrote. “When it comes to conservative blogs, Jon Swift is as good as it gets.” I really mean that, Jon.

• I see that the “Best Religious Blog” category has been dropped this year. There was no such category in 2003 and 2004, but last year the category was created and the award went to Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost. Haven’t seen an explanation why the category has been axed this year. Congratulations, Joe. They apparently have retired the category in your honor, making you the Best Religious Blog for all eternity.

• Kevin Aylward, Supreme Ruler of the Weblog Awards, says winning the award comes down to aggressive PR. In an Online Journalism Review report, Aylward was quoted as saying:

“It’s a popularity contest. The question is can blog A get more readers to vote than blog B?”

Gee whiz, if Blog A and Blog B are already out there pounding the pavement for votes, Rod and I better start formulating our campaign strategy (just in case we make the finals). Let’s see — how about some campaign promises. That’s always a great way to fire up voters. So, here is TerraX’s campaign pledge if you vote us the best darn 1751-2500 blog in the world:

TERRA EXTRANEUS’ 2006 WEBLOG AWARDS CAMPAIGN PROMISE:

If elected, TerraX promises to win the war, bring our troops home immediately, slash taxes, put a lid on health care costs, and eliminate global warming.

There’s something in there for just about everybody. So how about it? Can we count on your vote?

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Several months ago I launched a project to survey the 300+ blogs listed on the Blog Oklahoma blogroll. I set out alphabetically, and so far I have reviewed Sooner blogs from A to D. (Click the “Blogs: Oklahoma” category button for those reviews). At this rate, I won’t finish this project until well into the next decade.

One blog that has an obvious Sooner state connection that I see mentioned frequently on other blogs is Okiedoke. I decided to skip a few letters to find out what Okiedoke is all about.

Okiedoke (not Okiedokie) is written by Mike Hermes of Little Axe, Oklahoma. From its name, I was guessing Little Axe was deep in the Kiamichis of southeast Oklahoma. Actually, Little Axe is just 20 miles east of Norman on the eastern bank of Lake Thunderbird, out on the farthest fringe of the OKC metro area.

Like his friend over at Dustbury, Hermes is a prolific writer, cranking out about 70 posts a month. Archives go back to Dec 2003, although Hermes says Okiedoke began in July 2003. I read the last three months’ worth (that’s a lot of reading!).

Unlike Terra Extraneus and most other Oklahoma blogs, Okiedoke is actually primarily about Oklahoma, especially Oklahoma politics. In addition to his blog posts, Hermes throws in several bells and whistles which elevate his blog a few cuts above the rest:
• He maintains a helpful list of links to other Oklahoma-related sites.
• He provides an updated list of 2006 Oklahoma political candidates.
• He offers the “Oklahoma Election Propaganda Collection 2006,” featuring recent political TV ads and flyers.

In addition to writing his own Oklahoma blog, Hermes has volunteered himself to promote Sooner State blogging in other ways:
• He is the founder of the Okie Blog Awards, which named its first roll of best blogs in 2005 and is set for another round on Sep. 23, 2006.
• He is the ramrod behind the Okie Blogger Roundup, which will occur for the first time this year in Bricktown on the same September date.
• Hermes publishes his own weekly review of Oklahoma blogs, the “Okie Roundup,” every Saturday.

Politically, Hermes is a registered independent. His politics lean a bit to the left (something I’ve also been accused of), although Hermes denies it. (more…)

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I stumbled across Jon Swift today, a marvelous political satire blog. I couldn’t stop laughing, and sometimes I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cry.

Jon Swift (a pseudonym borrowed from the 18th-century satirist who wrote A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels) never tells us much about himself. This is what he does say at the top of his homepage:

I am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased, I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues.

Imagine if a slightly more-educated Archie Bunker became a blogger. That’s Jon Swift. Swift makes frequent complaints about the liberal mainstream media, which he identifies as “basically all of the media except Fox News and ‘American Idol.’” Here’s a few morsels from the Swift smorgasbord:

In “Who’s Afraid of Global Warming?”, Swift writes:

First of all, I must say that I don’t believe global warming exists no matter how much evidence scientists come up with to support it. I think it’s just a lot of fear-mongering from iceberg-hugging scientists who are trying to distract us from the War on Terror.

In “No Amnesty for Old People”:

Yesterday was the deadline for senior citizens to register for the prescription drug plan, called Medicare Part D. Now some people are saying that the deadline should be extended for the millions who missed the cut-off and will be without coverage for the rest of the year. … I think extending the prescription drug benefit deadline would amount to amnesty for old people and everyone knows amnesty is wrong. It would be unfair to the elderly who registered before the deadline and would just reward aging slackers and law-breakers.

After billionaire Warren Buffett recently announced that he is donating most of his fortune to charity, Swift wrote “Warren Buffett Turns Against God”:

Warren Buffett’s recent announcement that he would be donating billions of dollars to charities … is a slap in the face of God. God gave Buffett his wealth and now Buffett is turning his back on God by taking this gift and giving it away … Godless liberal do-gooders often purposely misinterpret the Bible by claiming it is against wealth, though this could not be further from the truth. … If God hates money so much why did he make so many Christian preachers rich? Doesn’t it seem clear that God is rewarding people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts and Joel Osteen by making them extremely wealthy?

Here’s another clever post: “The Race Card.”

For an added treat, check out Swift’s book reviews on Amazon.com. He has posted 20 reviews of various political books. Every review begins with the phrase, “I have not actually read this book but…” It’s hilarious stuff. Regarding a book about Brokeback Mountain, Swift wrote:

I have not actually read this book but I did see the movie and I liked it very much. However, I don’t understand why people keep referring to it as the “gay cowboy movie.” Can’t two men be very good friends without everybody saying they’re gay?

I came across Swift because he is a frequent contributor to the weekly Christian Blog Carnival. However, I’m sorry to inform my clueless fellow Christian bloggers that from what I can tell, Swift’s participation in the Christian Carnival is just part of the satire. Is Swift a Christian? In one post, he writes that he was born and raised a Jew. It’s impossible to know if there is any fact in Swift’s fictions, but that particular post reads like a rare glimpse into the real Jon Swift (whoever he is). However, in the same post Swift went on to say that he became a born-again Christian over the holidays, when he saw the Chronicles of Narnia at the movie theater. Come on, folks, you gotta admit, that’s funny.

Brother Swift, welcome to the fold. I really am a born-again evangelical Christian. I imagine you think that all of us are far-right, mean-spirited, racist morons. Sadly, there are enough far-right, mean-spirited, racist moron Christians out there, that I can understand how you may have formed that impression. However, I want you to know that Jesus wasn’t a right-winger or a racist, and He certainly wasn’t mean-spirited. You know what they say: “You can’t judge a Messiah by his disciples.” Despite us Christians, I hope you will give Jesus more than just satirical consideration.

(If you are interested, it isn’t C.S. Lewis’s Narnia stories you need, but rather, his classic rationale of the Christian faith, Mere Christianity. I know your favorite line is, “I have not actually read this book but..,” but you would find this book well worth your time.)

Meanwhile, thanks, Brother Swift, for your great blog. You are right on political target with many of your posts. Jon Swift has been up since December 2005, and he averages almost 400 visitors a day. I will be a regular reader.

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My previous post is a review of Dustbury, one of Oklahoma’s best blogs, written by the inimitable Charles G. Hill. I intended to post that review to coincidence with Hill’s World Tour 06, which began two days ago on June 12.

Every summer Hill gasses up the car and hits the road to look for America. He burns 4,000 to 5,000 miles of highway exploring what he can in two to three weeks. Best of all, Hill invites his Dustbury readers to come along as he blogs each day from the road, complete with occasional photos.

Dustbury archives contain the reports from World Tours 2001-2005. On those various expeditions, Hill has traveled NW to Montana, N to North Dakota and Minnesota, NE as far as Maine, E to Virginia, SE to Georgia and S to Texas and Louisiana. Hill has a preference for the slower highways and out-of-the-way locations. His tours have mostly taken him back and forth across the Great Midwest and Deep South. Writes Hill:

I’ve traveled to forty-two states … I’ve driven enough miles to reach half a dozen times around the world. Even in the cases where I can’t say “Done that,” I can still often say “Been there.”

For World Tour 06, Hill mapped out a southbound route to Florida and back. For the first leg, Hill left OKC on Monday headed SE down Highway 3 toward Texarkana. He got as far Coalgate, Oklahoma, 114 miles from home, when World Tour 06 came to an abrupt halt.

I love Hill’s idea of driving the smaller highways. It’s not just about avoiding the traffic and tolls, but about taking your time and actually seeing America rather than just racing past it. Driving those old highways is like traveling back in time. Rural America along the old state highways hasn’t necessarily changed a whole lot in the last 50 years or so.

But small rural highways are not without hazards of their own. In particular, there is the wildlife. Just outside Coalgate, Hill had a collision with a deer. Bambi is dead. So is Sandy. Hill is apparently OK, although I think he’s still in shock. He’s back home, and he’s kept right on blogging, but he has had surprisingly little to say about his disappointing turn of events.

You’ve got to understand, this is the biggest news to hit Dustbury in a long time. For one thing, Hill is the kind of guy who gave his car a name and wrote a love letter to “her,” a Mazda 626 LX, when he first brought her home back in 2000. Yesterday, he posted a terse three-paragraph note titled, “She’s Dead.”

Furthermore, the World Tour must be about the biggest event of the year on the Dustbury activities calendar, so it must be a crushing blow to Dustbury’s citizenry for the tour to be canceled. In a post this morning, Hill comments on the Dodge Stratus rental he’s driving now:

This is the bottom-feeder of the line, with a nothing-special four-banger driving the front wheels. It’s an acceptable grocery-getter, but not the least bit amusing to drive, and while the seats are better than average, their adjustment range doesn’t include any position in which I’m comfortable.

Charles, we sure are sorry about your bad news. Sorry for you, and sorry for the rest of us, too. I was looking forward to being a vicarious participant in my first Dustbury World Tour, and hoped to bring a few TerraX readers along for the ride. But we’re glad you’re OK, and hopeful that there will be plenty more World Tours to come.

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Have you ever visited Dustbury, Oklahoma? Dustbury is a very real place just down the information highway, an unusual little world with a permanent population of 1. One eccentric, witty, irreverent, self-deprecating old coot named Charles G. Hill.

Dustbury is one of Oklahoma’s most popular blogs; it was voted the best-written blog in the 2005 Okie Blog Awards. I’ve been following Dustbury for a while now. I enjoy it a lot, and I added Dustbury to TerraX’s “Best of Okla. Blogs” some time ago.

Dustbury’s mayor, chief citizen and resident sage is Charles G. Hill, a middle-aged computer guru slash homespun philosopher. Hill has two adult children, two grandchildren and an ex-wife. Why hasn’t he remarried? “The level of desperation reported to exist among contemporary women is highly exaggerated.” Hill writes about many things, almost everything, including frequent observations about being single in the second half of life. Last week he wrote:

“Alone,” of course, does not equal “lonely.” But I’ve always believed that there’s a reason besides mere etymology that they share most of their letters.

Hill remains an Oklahoma Democrat long after most of the state has converted to GOP-ism. Sometimes he writes about politics, state and national, but he also serves up an eclectic mix of news, philosophy, music, poetry, computer tech notes – and a thousand other subjects. Among the numerous choices on the Dustbury menu is “The Vent,” a weekly column Hill has been writing for the last 10 years. That makes 488 Vent columns to date, and those columns alone make a drive to Dustbury worth the gas.

Hill is an eccentric. He still has his e-mail archives dating back to 1994. He has worn the same Casio watch for more than 25 years. He can tell you, in case you were wondering, the mathematical average of all of the zip codes at which he has ever lived. And, if you believe everything he says, at home Hill lives pretty much in the nude (Charles, too much information!), although he assures us that he suits up to do his lawn work.

Where is Dustbury? Hill is an Oklahoma City resident, but Dustbury is not confined to the city limits. “We want ritzy suburbia, but we know how hard it is to shake off the red clay of the country. Upscale, but still possessed by poverty: call it Dustbury — the dream home on the edge of nowhere.”

Here’s a short and clever 1997 piece introducing Dustbury, in which Hill manages in a few paragraphs to touch on the Trail of Tears, the Oklahoma Land Run, the Dust Bowl days, mentioning John Steinbeck and Walt Whitman along the way, and taking the obligatory potshot at the Daily Oklahoman. “What Is This Place Called Dustbury?”

This isn’t at all a bad place to be. The sun shines most of the time, and the feeling is laid-back; while wages are definitely on the low side, the cost of living is not disproportionately high; and for every single example of Oklahoma stupidity and venality you see in the media, I can show you a dozen examples of Oklahoma brightness and kindness. I’ve done a stint on the Left Coast and one on the Right, but just about half my life has been spent here among the Sooners, and for the most part, we get along just fine.

Dustbury’s archives go back to 2002, but the site contains articles dating back more than a decade, salvaged from previous Hill websites, and the site boasts: “founded: April 9, 1996.” Reading Dustbury is the kind of non-linear experience that exemplifies the way the Internet is supposed to work – but almost never does. A Dustbury visitor glances through Hill’s FAQ, where he clicks on a hyperlink to “mysterious people,” which mentions “She Who is Not To Be Named,” which clicks to another page that offers a poignant account of a heartbreak. And no buttons or links back or forward to any other page except the homepage. So the reader is forced to click back to where he started, ready to take another ride. Before long the Dustbury visitor has started several articles and finished none, doesn’t remember where he began or everything he has seen along the way – but he enjoyed the trip.

There’s nothing fictional about Dustbury. It may not be on the map, but it has a very real URL address, and I recommend a visit. The site gets more than 800 visitors a day, and has had more than 1 million visitors since 1999. Dustbury offers literally thousands of pages of good reading, with more served fresh daily. Dustbury is what a blog can become, when a talented writer with a keen wit pours his life into its creation for several years. As Michael Bates over at Batesline says, “Dustbury is the epitome of a blog … By comparison, other blogs are mere shadows on the wall of a cave.”

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Are you following the Brian Stone saga at An Audience of One? You should be. He just started a new job this week as the principal of an inner city middle school in Tulsa.

Want to know about my new school? All of the typical things you’d read about in an urban, high-challenge school. Poverty, gang culture, drugs, low test scores, family breakdown, etc. In other words, my kind of place. In spite of all that these are children and precious children at that. They have the same need for acceptance that their counterparts at a ritzy private school do. These kids have potential and need help to deliver on their abilities. There are huge changes coming to my school and I’m excited to be part of that change. I’ll write more on this later.

Also, check out another excellent recent Brian post: “Destiny.”

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