Edit: for example, here’s what I got from a spambot in the post below this one, verbatim:

With the whole thing which seems to be developing inside this specific subject material, your perspectives are generally relatively radical. Nevertheless, I apologize, but I can not give credence to your whole theory, all be it exciting none the less. It would seem to us that your opinions are generally not completely justified and in fact you are generally yourself not even thoroughly confident of the point. In any event I did appreciate reading it.

I’ve seen non-spam posts on other sites that came off more spammy than this.

-I’m broke as hell anyway, so they’re at no loss if I don’t buy something.
-The only other thought I had as an alternative was money through Paypal, and then they committed what I personally see as a much worse dick move.
-Julian said himself that a key reason for using Amazon as a server location was to test whether they could be pressured.  He expected this to happen, and was proven right.
-I would not have been surprised if Amazon not kicking Wikileaks off resulted in cyber attacks directed at Amazon via the U.S. government.

Do I like what they did?  Obviously not.  Keep in mind the initial offense though.  If someone forces you at gunpoint to kick a dog, and you do it, the asshole with the gun is the primary concern.

To start off with, here’s something silly (or at least, something that should be seen as silly): I found this funny, lighten up y’all.  Besides, fried chicken hits the spot, regardless of what race you are.

The moment I started typing this, I had 3 blogs in my blogroll that are written by self-described “conservatives”: Cunning Realist, Cynics Unlimited (we’re talking Canada w/ that one though, keep in mind…), & Andrew Sullivan.

Well, read this, then look over there again.

1) Obama’s people value message discipline to an almost paranoid degree.  Google ads are fairly random, so that’s a no-go.  McCain’s people really don’t seem to give a fuck, so Google ads are a go for them.

2) Keywords.  I don’t talk about Obama much because frankly I don’t see much of substance to talk about with him, and see that as in a way the whole point of his campaign: having abandoned the few positions where he differed in any meaningful sense, he’s effectively running as the Generic Democrat that was trouncing the Generic Republican in the polls back when the campaign season first started — which is working.

Pick one, and add to it that the 3rd parties don’t have the money for much, at least as far as I can tell.

(* – as for any possibility of directly selling ad space, I dunno and don’t really care.  Besides, I can’t tell if I get enough traffic to justify it, and it’d probably break compatibility with the theme anyway.  I don’t want to change the look of the site just to stick an ad over there that I like, that’d only be an option if a shit-hot designer fell into my lap that could figure out purely based on content — visual design ain’t my strength — a look that would say what you’re getting here better than the tagline already does, without bashing anyone in the skull with it.)

To the regular visitors: Has anyone seen it bring up any others, whether for Obama, Barr, or anyone else that’s running?