http://moot.typepad.com/what_if/2006/02/add_one_more_my.html

nice try slamming althouse, ted, but you just proved that she is exactly right!

I suspect that a good deal of what you’re seeing is the result of a natural segregation. The sheer size of the “blogosphere” forces readers to limit themselves to a relatively small circle of blogs. This means you only “get to know” a relatively small group of writers. You might read other blogs now and then, but the bulk of your time simply has to be spent among a relative handful.

I suspect that you’re “classified” as a left-of-center blog (many of your normal readers read mostly left-blogs). I think it’s natural that the circles that know and read you often will tend to link to you supportively. The “opposition”, on the other hand, will only notice you when you say something irritating or interesting enough to attract their attention.

By human nature, it’s easier to attract negative attention than positive. Thus, much of the time, the “opposition” will be linking to disagree. Ann experiences this as right-blogs linking to support and left-blogs linking to argue, and you experience the opposite.

This can be true even if you and Ann are pretty close politically. For example, if you spend more time fairly and reasonably criticizing the Bush administration and she spends more time fairly criticizing unfair critics of the administration, then your audiences will diverge naturally. More Bush supporters will become frequent readers at her place and more Bush opponents at yours.

Sorry for a long post, but I thought you (and she) were raising an interesting post.

Quite agree with Ted here.I’ve just defended the Bush Administration from a Democratic attack, and pushed for spending discipline. Why won’t the right reach out and engage a moderate like me? What I’ve noticed, over and over, is that the

Conversely, if you are worried about names, labelling, lazy type thinking, impressing others is important to you, and you get worried about shallow crap like ‘why is everybody always picking on me.’

It’s like this: I sure as hell don’t notice or recall any ‘leftist’ sites ever worrying about if they are accepted by anyone, left or right, because it is morals that count, now what label you hide behind. No science sites, skeptical and critical thinking sites, philosophy sites, etc., ever worry about who links to them. It is meaningless because you are who you are, and people who ‘get it’ will recognize others who’ve ‘got it’. They don’t need labels.

It is getting beyond ludicrous with all this pigeonholing. No two people in the world agree 100% on everything, no one person always even agrees 100% with the same ideas from one day to the next.

People who understand this don’t need labels to figure out what is going on.

Ask Cheney.

(Yeah, that was like shooting fish in a barrel, or farm-raised quail in a private ranch, or…)

That’s $100 million in a state of around 4.5 million people, and its pure propaganda.

At least Badtux is bashing the Bolshies. (Oooh! Aliteration!) This croggles me as much as the right cutting Buchanan off at the knees does Badtux. ;-) I’m plenty willing to give Ted props for fairness on this issue. Of course, only so many hours in a day, and even fewer of them with internet access since the hurricane, so I wouldn’t have known about it to be able to comment had one of those Evil Neocons In Their Circle-Jerk™ (You kiss your momma with that mouth, boy?) not brought it to my attention.