And just in time for Christmas too. Ah, the stupidity of FakeBloggette: the gift that keeps on giving.

Wasn't she involved with both Suck.com and Salon, the two sites that most represented the now old and busted attitude of 90s web "journalism" (and, hell, the 90s altogether with it's mockery of squares and accomplishment through dismissive, condescending "jokes" that pretend to have more knowledge than they do. Basically, all the commentary on the "I Love The (whatever decade)" shows)? If so, she's gotta be pissed that all these upstarts are picking away at her territory (as well as interrupting the dump trucks full of money that were supposed to come their way). I know Nick Gillespie of Reason was in that crowd, except his bent was hoping the 90s would become a return to his version of the 70s (hedonistic and fun fun fun).

She's a vapid young woman who got a job fronting a publisher-created blog.
I've read some of her articles for Suck and Salon. She's sneered her way through the last decade.
It's not like people didn't know what she was like by now.
She's always thought the whole blogging thing was dumb, yet bloggers treated her like a colleague. I never could understand that.
I guess they thought she was a cool chick.

The Suck thing gave her some cred. I've had people comment about that as if it excused crap (whereas I think it just shows a history of it). I think some saw her as a trailblazer; she just saw everyone else as hacks well and far below her. She's pissed that substance and skill are winning over sneering, as you perfectly put it.

She's getting a lot of television time and newsprint space as a go-to blogger. Right now a lot hinges on her being cute. Time will take care of that, but who knows? She might just be the next Susan Estrich.

In any case, she's not worth getting worked up over.

OT- It's funny what you did last week, Fad. I had Juan Gato bookmarked back in the day. Did you get the title from the song?

Thanks. It was fun, and I'm glad people got a kick out of it. I'm not sure what song you mean, but the name comes because I originally started writing semi-serious political columns for a friend's site back in 2000. I picked the name because, at the time, the pseudo-philosopher who pissed me off most was this guy named Jon Katz who used to write at Slashdot.org.

Well, I didn't know you were him until last week. So I ended up finding you twice.
Oh, the song was a kids' song called "Don Gato". A translation of "Jon Katz" makes more sense.
Anyways, both are/were good blogs.

Well, thank you very much. Actually, I've never heard that song, but, when I was Juan Gato, I got asked at least once a month if that is where I got the name from.

It was a bit pleasantly amusing that a few people didn't know, though "Where Juan Gato Went To Die" has been the tagline on the site for a couple months. I had no idea you were a reader back then. Did you ever comment?

Well, at least I'm not the only one who still has that song floating around in their brain.

Yours was the first blog I read. I found it through googling something. No, I wouldn't have commented.
I remember when you shut it down.

You're right. I've seen the tagline, but it really didn't register you were the same person until you did your Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii comeback special.

The blogs are very different from each other. If I ever did another blog, it would just be me all over again.

Well, thanks to a shattering loss of confidence, I had to give up the heavy political commentary. Thankfully I had the cheezy, jokey thing to fall back on. Plus, after a while it gets tiresome coming up with new angles/jokes for some idiot pundit's same ole/same ole schtick. They get paid to repeat themselves. I have better things to do.

Your CSI:Crackerbarrel was classic.

I could never write full-time about politics and I'm not really interested in reading all the time about there being something wrong in the world. There's room for all sorts of blogging.

Outside of the press, I don't know anyone who even reads Cox.

It's dreadful, IMO.

What about the big bloggers who link her, Ricky? Instapundit bears some responsibility in giving her credibility.

I try to link to intelligent women bloggers at my blog, and have looked at her column a few times and couldn't see what others see. Now that I've read your links to these stories, my hunch was correct. I consider her the "token" since most of the big name bloggers are male, but over half of bloggers are female.