Liberate This Blog from Low Traffic

Nick Gillespie | November 3, 2005

When you're weary, feelin' small--when tears are in your eyes--check out Liberating Our Heritage, the group blog that documents the travails, adventures, and graphic sex lives political discontent of "libertarians interning at a D.C. think tank, while living among social conservatives."

If I were pitching this as a TV show: Think Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa meets Whitaker Chambers' Witness, only minus the anthropologizin' and communism. Or maybe On the Rocks meets The Real World meets Holes.

Latest post up: A pointer to an interview with President Bush's former personal chef, who spills the beans (string beans, that is) about just how much mayonnaise POTUS consumes. The answer, goes the old headline trope, may suprise you.

Update: Greg Newburn of Liberteaser--a damn fine blog and not just because they added a Hit & Run link after I bitched to one of their posse, felonius filmmaker and former Reason intern Rhys Southan--lays down a slap at Liberating Our Heritage in the comments below. Far be it from me to host, let alone encourage a tomcat fight, but there you have it. Liberteaser's latest postings include a confession that all the boys there want for Xmas is Janice Rodgers Brown nominated to the Supreme Court.

Comments

|11.3.05 @ 9:45AM|#

What about his drinks?

When he asks for a vodka on the rocks, it's our guys who mix it from our own supply that we have to bring all the way around the world with us. Nobody knows that.

hehe that's grrrrrrrreat to know the Prez still drinks a lil' vodka from time to time. wonder how his cocaine stash is.

Would it be "Hugh Hewitt" or "PowerLine" (i.e. hyperTimesrightyparanoid) of me to point out that the NY Times interviewer tries to get Bush for not dieting and his father for being "antinutrition" in the first four questions? I wonder if the reporter noticed that Bush works out for 11 hours a day.

|11.3.05 @ 9:49AM|#

OT

I officially feel betrayed by Bob Barr:

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051102-093349-7482r.htm

Just when you think you have a friend.

Sandy|11.3.05 @ 10:03AM|#

OK, if you read the story carefully, they're not talking about the current POTUS named Bush but the former POTUS named Bush. He's not dry.

So the creme d'Americaine isn't being consumed in the White House, but in Kennebunkport and Houston.

|11.3.05 @ 10:21AM|#

A pointer to an interview with President Bush's former personal chef, who spills the beans (string beans, that is) about just how much mayonnaise POTUS consumes.

"Too much mayo! I looooove to much mayo!"

--King of Town

|11.3.05 @ 10:22AM|#

Edit: "I looooove too much mayo!"

|11.3.05 @ 10:42AM|#

MAYONNAISE, n.
One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

-Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

|11.3.05 @ 10:42AM|#

I wonder if the reporter noticed that Bush works out for 11 hours a day.

If Bush works out for eleven hours a day, how much of the day is he using for, you know, presidential issues?

Greg Newburn|11.3.05 @ 11:38AM|#

Tell these crybabies to stop whining about their hit count. Write something useful, and people might stop by once in a while.

I know all of these bloggers, and let me tell you, it isn't worth your time...

|11.3.05 @ 11:58AM|#

Happy Belated Birthday, mediageek!

Happy Belated Birthday, Steven Crane!

The Owner's Manual|11.3.05 @ 12:19PM|#

Greg,

Since that group deigns to not link to any other blogs, other blogs are that much less likely to link to them, suppressing their standing on search engines, which hampers getting new readers, etc, etc, etc. There's more to life than just showing up.

|11.3.05 @ 12:41PM|#

Uhm I'm gonna have to agree with the former intern and say that blog sucks. What's the real reason for your shilling?

|11.3.05 @ 3:12PM|#

Hey! My birthday was on Halloween! Where's my belated bday wishes?? :(

|11.3.05 @ 3:40PM|#

Happy Belated Birthday, Lowdog!

|11.3.05 @ 3:54PM|#

Hahah - thanks, smacky.

*sniff*

|11.3.05 @ 3:54PM|#

Mayonnaise, cream, and string beans doesn't sound particularly appetising, but you'd have to gorge yourself on it to get fat.

- Josh

Jonathan Rick|11.3.05 @ 6:22PM|#

All right Newburn. First things first: in the not too distant past, a certain intern coordinator was whining about the hit count of another young libertarian group blog.

Second, in the not too distant past, a certain intern coordinator pulled a stunt to increase his own hit count. In short, he gave his readers an ultimatum: 75 comments in 48 hours, or he'd quit blogging:

http://saveliberty.blogspot.com/2005/10/newburn.html

When he realized he would come up short--and significantly so--he took my advice to change the number of comments to 43.

In any event, thanks a lot for the link Nick (and witty title). When I create a blogroll--which is to say when I start using WordPress--I'll reciprocate.

Finally, about our graphic sex lives: just wait till our female bloggers chime in. Incidentally, why are there so few coed blogs?

Greg Newburn|11.9.05 @ 8:49AM|#

HAHA. I didn't mean any of it, Rick. Forgive me...