The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Dan:

Wait a minute... I think... Yes. That's it.

I feel something strange stirring inside of me. It's a soft, fluttering sensation moving through my chest and pressing gently behind my eyes. And, my teeth! My god! My teeth are dry and my cheeks are a little sore.

This is pride with a side order of happy, happy laughter.

He looks great, and plopping around with friends over the holiday weekend is probably one of those really big spirit lifters.

Ahh... You may have stopped my blink tag, but you meddling kids will never defeat my marquee tags. ha. ha. ha.

Sweet. I'm one of those "lazy" Americans who, back in the heady Nineties, got sick in college with a chronic, incurable and god damned expensive disease, and I've pretty much been unable to work or find insurance ever since.

The truly elegant insanity of it all is that I've deferred my student loans to their limit since, if I get a job that makes more than $900 a month, I lose what little health care I've managed to qualify for (and subsequently lose that which makes getting a job even possible in the first freakin' place).

This makes me happy on an otherwise unhappy day.

I've got a cup of licorice tea that I can hoist. After that, I'm all about the whiskey.

I almost want to be embarrassed for the poor people of Minnesota. This is just insane, and it isn't the America I wish to be a part of.

I love this stuff. When I'm not drinking it, I use a little bit in making a pot roast too. It is awesome.

We're going to be stuck with some crazies for quite a while, aren't we?

Didn't Ron Paul use the same sort of spamming tactics?

Really. What does that say about McCain that not only is he so hopelessly out of touch with the modern world, but he can't learn from the failures of his peers?

He really does remind me more and more of Dubya every day, and I honestly don't know whether to laugh or just shake my head at the embarrassment of it all.

Why are all these cults with the word "family" in their titles so bloody dim?

It's a good laugh, though.

"First Richard [Pryor] had a heart attack. Then I had a heart attack. Then Richard burned himself up. And I said, 'Fuck that. I'm having another heart attack!" -George Carlin.

I always loved that quote. I am going to miss that funny, funny man.

Ron Coleman ::: (view all by) ::: June 19, 2008, 02:00 PM:

Dan , let me get this straight: You do or you don't want the MBA to represent all bloggers?

Please don't get in the habit of answering what should be ridiculously simple questions with more questions. It's unbearably tedious, and it advances nothing in terms of understanding.

So, if I understand this correctly, the AP is going to settle this mess with Bob Cox and the MBA while leaving everyone who isn't a card carrying member of the MBA in the lurch and potentially victims to the AP's whimsy in this issue of Fair Use.

Am I on the right track?

I thought I was being merciful. See, Teresa? This is me being merciful with an eyebrow raised.

I look suspiciously French all of a sudden.

#111 ::: Tlönista ::: June 18, 2008, 05:30 PM:
Basically: the MBA doesn't seem to have done sh*t for bloggers; they seem to have actually represented two people in the past two years, one of them being Roger Cadenhead. And they covered the Libby trial. And Robert Cox spends a lot of time telling reporters his opinion on blogging, because he's so official and such.

Does anyone know of anything else they've done?

But... but... They get five to ten calls a week from bloggers in some sort of legal distress.

Am I wrong for doubting the credibility of this story from Rogers' shilling here for MBA and Bob Cox right down to the notion that if it wasn't a scam operation, why is this thing cloaked in all sorts of bungled links, confusing and inaccessible comments, insurance sales pitches, legal advice pitches, special blogger training pitches, and so on and so forth?

Give me one reason why I should trust Bob Cox and believe his, as yet, unsupported claims that he's actually helped anyone.

I still think the MBA is nothing more than a scam designed to sell bloggers some sort of insurance they don't freakin' need in the first place, and I find it kind of suspect (or total bullshit) that they get "5 to 10 calls a week" from bloggers facing litigation.

Lance Weber :::June 18, 2008, 03:14 PM:

Given the sudden profusion of esteemed positions and titles in this post I have created an umbrella organization designed to coordinate and represent these august persons as they post their way through the blogosphere:

International Dispensary: Internets Official Titles

Membership in IDIOT is limited, act now!

Do I get a sweet insurance deal?

After watching that video, I'm thinking Cox is yet another self-important Conservative gasbag with a rather dull axe to grind.

Really. He isn't going to be speaking for me so long as I can speak for myself. The service he claims to provide is as irrelevant as he is, and his true motive may, in fact, be to scam folks into buying an unnecessary form of insurance as TomB pointed out in comment #31 and as stated on the MBA Membership page:

"A major benefit of our requiring media law training for our members is that Media Pro Insurance, a leading provider of media liability coverage to newspapers, TV networks, film companies and others, was willing to create a special insurance program to offer our members a significant discount off this type of insurance, making it affordable for many bloggers who need this type of insurance..."

But wait! There's more! Act now and receive a free set of Bob Cox Endorsed Ginsu steak knives. They slice! They dice!

Really. The only interests these jokers seem to be serving are their own, and it's distressing that the AP would even approach this guy to speak on anyone's behalf.

Can I represent all of the internet? I mean, I'm qualified, obviously. All you have to do is call me, and I'll explain it to you.

It has something to do with marbles, and how I saved them from extinction. Really, as a blogger, it's better if you just call rather than make me, you know, blog about it.

Can I be a member of the Media Bloggers' Association?

Do I need to put a banner on my blog or something?

I need to feel important. It's really all I have. I want to make policy for everyone in spite of all those pesky established laws and stuff. Mostly, though...

I just want the AP to love me.

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