On my sidebar to the right, there is a sort of cloud/list thing under “Popular Searches.” I take it that the fact that people who search this blog have been searching for “Naomi Klein” more than anything else, indicates more current interest in what I have to say about Naomi Klein than about other topics. So, here’s an experiment. For the next few weeks, I will write a blog post on the topic of each of my top three “Popular Searches.” I think I’ll put a limit on repeats to three. So if “Mormon” is in the top three for three weeks in a row, I will write a post about “Mormon” three weeks in a row, and then move on to the next most popular topic. Obviously, this gives you the power to vote for a topic by searching over and over for it in order to get it into the top three. This behavior is positively encouraged.
Coming up this week: Naomi Klein; Mormon; my partner.
Disclaimer: I do not guarantee a good-faith effort to interpret topics in accordance with searchers’ intent.
You realize that everyone is going to be trying to get “sex” into the top three now.
Hey Will, I recently riffed on Klein here:
http://ben.casnocha.com/2008/09/jon-chait-on-na…
Would be curious to hear your take on Chait's essay….
I am happy to write about sex!
Thanks, Ben!
I think that, rather than the terms themselves, you should write posts about the _lines_ of terms. So, you'd write an “Naomi Klein Mormon” post and an “My partner Ayn Rand sex” post. Mostly I just want to write the second one because it would be funny.
Your swedish cato colleague (name escapes me) utterly destroyed Klein with two pieces. The second was a reaction to a weak and childish rebuttal from Klein on the first piece. The New Republic also gave a long demolition of her dim and confused book.
Ripping Klein to shreds is easy because she is so unbelievably wrong on almost every level imaginable.
And it only took 9 hours to get it to number one.
And it only took 9 hours to get it to number one.