I have no problem with those sites that wish to add a link to Confederate Yankee. You don't even need to tell me. Part of the fun of blogging is discovering new sites that feel strongly enough about something I've said that they link to it or to the site in general. So link away.

That said, I do not often respond to reciprocal linking agreements, so don't bother asking.

I will tell you that I often read comments made on this site, and if someone says something thoughtful, original, and intriguing, I will often visit their site, and if I like their site, I'll add it to my blogroll. I will not knowing link to sites that regularly feature content that would rate more than a PG-13, or an R-rating on the outside. If it ever happens that I link to a site that would earn an NC-17 or higher rating, please let me know.

I don't have any set rules on those sites listed in my blogroll, other than the fact that for some reason, they were of interest to me at the time they were blogrolled. I occasionally drop sites from my blogroll when it gets unwieldy. This isn't personal, I'm just making room for new links. Keep developing engaging commentary, and you could very well wind up blogrolled again.

Commenting Policy (added 09/02/2006, amended 02/07/2007)
Allowing comments on a blog is a personal choice that some bloggers allow and some don't. I happen to fall into the "do" category with restrictions:

• Off-topic comments, irrelevant comments, or personal attacks are subject to deletion, without warning.
• Commentors prone to creating off-topic, irrlevant posts are subject to being banned, without warning.
• Any comments advocating violence towards individuals or groups are subject to deletion, without warning.
• The blog owner reserves the right to enforce these rules unevenly and unobjectively, and may change and and all rules on a whim-by-whim basis. Deal with it, or better yet, get your own blog.

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While checking my Sitemeter stats this morning I noticed that someone from bellsouth.net has been on my site for over 940 minutes.

At first, I thought that I might have finally bored someone to death, and they were face-down on their keyboard. Then I noticed they had 94 page views as well, so that means they were actively clicking around at least part of the time.

And they--YOU--are still here.

Hey, I'm flattered.

Really, I am.

But go home.

It's Christmas Eve.

And at this point, it's just getting creepy.

Shoo.

Go.

Buh-bye.

Update: My overly loyal visitor finally logged off at 12:18 PM, after being on this site for 1050 minutes and 2 seconds. That has to be some sort of record...well, for a non-porn site.

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My better half, God bless her, is an angel with the most charitable and caring of souls, and she found an organization over the weekend that I'd like to share with you.

Any Soldier, Inc is a charitable organization with a simple, vital goal: delivering care packages and letters of support to our troops. If you are looking to contribute to a noble cause, you couldn't do much better.

While it is a little late for Christmas, you could help an American serviceman overseas get 2005 started off right with support from home. Any letters or notes you send let them know you appreciate what they are doing, and for those of you able to send Care packages, this page lets you know what soldiers need and provides links to where you can find items online.

Please check out Any Soldier, and pass along their Web address to those you know who might be interested in supporting our troops.

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There may be some minor hiccups today as I try to update the blog template.

Sorry!

Update: Haloscan seems to be implemented correctly in my blog template, but a limited number of posts seems to stil be trying to use Blogger's old "comments" template. I was trying to troubleshoot this last night and again this morning, but decided that I don't care that much about a minor problem concerning old posts.

If you end up not seeing a comment that you posted, let me know and I'll see if I can hunt it down and put it where it belongs.

Normal blogging to resume later today.

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Excerpts from John Kerry, Spokesman, for Liberal Veterans Against the Blog:

"I would like to talk on behalf of all those liberal bloggers and say that several days ago we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably pajama'd, and many highly caffinated, Daily Kossacks testified to blog crimes they committed at the 2004 Weblog Awards.

"They told stories that at times they had personally fisked, cut off or deleted dissenting comments, blocked dissenting IPs, dowdified quotes and turned up the rhetoric, cut off intelligent discourse, blown up childishly, randomly trolled at conservative sites, and hacked and scripted to falsify award poll results in a fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, poisoned topics, and generally ravaged the blogosphere in addition to the normal ravaging of blogs and the very particular ravaging done by the applied hacking and scripting of the 2004 Weblog Awards Best Overall Blog in particular."

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Simply pathetic.

LGF is reporting that Daily Kos fans are admitting to hacking the 2004 Weblog Awards and corrupting the vote for Best Overall Blog with scripts stuffing the virtual ballot box.



In addition to Koz, three other sites (LGF, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo) are also facing recounts because of hacking that manipulated their numbers.

Folks, these awards are about appreciating the blogging community. That some people would take the time to cheat for what is essentially an award of appreciation, is sad in the extreme.

I suggest that Daily Kos be tossed from this competition, or voluntarily withdraw on his own, if it can be determined to a reasonable degree that he knew of the cheating on his behalf (or should have) and did not report it. I would hold the other three blogs in question to this same standard.

Integrity, kids, is a beautiful thing.

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