F.T. Rea over at SLANTblog has challenged the Virginia blogosphere to partake in a little experiment:
use the weekend of July 21-23 to show the rest of the blogosphere that it can be done. It would be a weekend vacation from copying, and piling on, and talking points … a weekend without calling everyone with whom one disagrees a “liberal,” or a “conservative,” as if those are dirty words.
For instance — for the Webb team it would mean a weekend without using the name, “Felix,” in your posts. For the Allen team it would mean three days without using the word, “flip-flopper,” in your posts. And, if you can’t write about those two guys without using those words, and words like them, maybe try writing about something else. Hey, I’m only talking about three days.
I’m game. As are plenty of others. You can even see a growing list over at Vivian Paige’s blog (Also the source of the sweet graphic above. Kudos, Vivian.)
If I post at all that weekend, it’ll be original. As I said in my comments over at SLANTblog, I like to think of this as a great opportunity for bloggers to introduce (or re-introduce) themselves to the blogosphere.
Jason – I try very hard to make sure if nothing else, I spell everybody’s name right. Now – there is an “I” in Paige 🙂
Glad you like the graphic 🙂
Ach, my apologies. I’m usually a bit more observant than that, especially since everyone wants to forget the second ‘e’ in Kenney (or add a ‘d’, it kinda goes either way). Thanks for the correction and I will try my bestest to avoid any errors in the future.
I figured you of all people would appreciate it. No doubt you see your name spelled wrong a lot 🙂
Jason,
Thanks.
— Terry