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Jackass Spammers

by John Cole|  October 11, 20037:56 pm| 6 Comments

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Apparently I am not the only one who got spammed last night by the ‘Lolita’ Spammer. When I woke up this morning, I had to manually delete about 30 spams and block the IP. Really annoying.

*** Update ***

I got hit again, this time by “Preteen,” as did others. Same first parts of the ip address as last night, just the last two digits varied. Is there anyway to ban that whole string?

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Site Maintenance

by John Cole|  October 9, 20032:44 pm| Leave a Comment

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Mark Kleiman has moved.

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New Blogs in the Blog Roll

by John Cole|  September 24, 20035:48 pm| 3 Comments

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I have added some new blogs to the blogroll, and they can be found to the right in the New Additions section:

Please welcome:

The Angry Left
Setting the World To Rights
Taco Flavored Kisses

*** Update ***

And how could I forget my most loyal lefty commenter.

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New Blog

by John Cole|  September 11, 20032:04 am| 7 Comments

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I have added the VRWC, Inc to the blogroll. He is a friend of my blogson’s, Misha (and I know many of you hate him, but I am standing by him- I am a firm believer in letting all ideas out here, and Misha has been nothing but a DECENT and KIND human being to me), so hopefully, if you have time, you will stop by and give both Misha nd the VRWC a read.

BTW- I bet you if you ask Misha, he doesn’t agree with damn near anything I say- probably thinks I am too moderate or something. You know what, though? We give each other the latitude to be wrong and to have our own opinions. That is what the blogosphere is all about, isn’t it? Sure beats the hell out of car bombs, IMHO.

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I Am Not Dead

by John Cole|  September 3, 20038:48 pm| 2 Comments

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I am not dead, just busy with some other stuff. Posting should resume shortly, including the announcement of the blogger awards.

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Blog Awards

by John Cole|  August 31, 200312:29 pm| 7 Comments

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I am busy tallying, and the Blog Award Winners whould be up in a few hours.

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New Permalink

by John Cole|  August 27, 20038:41 pm| 5 Comments

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I added another admitted lib to the links- Make sure you go check out Nathan Newman.

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