Comments on: Welcome Yahoo! Readers

By: krediet

krediet — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:26:38 +0000

Hi, I think you are totally right. Great! – :) Susan.

By: Roxy

Roxy — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:07:06 +0000

Hi! Mr. Gardner, I like your website. I just finished reading the “Harry Plotter” post, and I liked it– it was interesting. It’s nice to know that there are other people who catch errors in books (by the way, there are also some errors in quotation use…). I finished the book two days ago…Anyway–great job!

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:00:22 +0000

But, while I hate to feel locked in an echo chamber, I can find practically no liberal bloggers who have not sold out their sanity in a Bush/Republican-hating frenzy.

Hello ss, my name is Justin Gardner. I’m the editor of this site. Now, you’ve met one liberal blogger who isn’t possesed by this “frenzy.” ;-)

By: ss

ss — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:47:42 +0000

I’m conservative and have felt very comfortable in the conservative/libertarian end of the blogosphere. But, while I hate to feel locked in an echo chamber, I can find practically no liberal bloggers who have not sold out their sanity in a Bush/Republican-hating frenzy. I’m confident I could get along with these people in person, but the online partisanship and insane conspiratorial attributions is obscenely ridiculous. A site like Donklephant might be good for my blood pressure. It would be nice to see some respectful discussion and disagreement, and to share with others who likewise attempt to escape the instinct to jump to partisan defenses of the indefensible.

I think a compromise website cannot become a very popular site however, because compromise is hard. On the web, we can usually find a few sites that reaffirm our own opinions, and it becomes easy to view all disagreement as the intrusion of trolls or “wingnuts” into our own insular “reality-based community.” I’ll try to stop in and get to know the place better.