Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Insensitive Truth Telling. Proceed at your own risk.

Hey, remember all the way back to the first week of June 2020? It seems like it was 7 years ago, but it was only 7 weeks ago. Oh my, how much has transpired.

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You want to know what the blogosphere used to look like?

Read the post I wrote on September 29, 2009, regarding our one millionth visit, Thanks a Million! I don’t know how many of these links are still live, but the number that are not is the point:

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James Carville famously salvaged Bill Clinton’s political career by focusing on economic problems people were facing during the 1992 campaign.

The term “it’s the economy, stupid,” attributed to Carville as Clinton’s campaign strategist, became the mantra for a generation of Democrat politicians and political strategists:

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The cancellation of an appearance by noted atheist author and speaker Richard Dawkins is just the latest example of campus speech shut down. We covered the shut down in Richard Dawkins Berkeley Event Canceled Over Tweets Critical of Islamism:

Dawkins refused to apologize, as reported at Berkeleyside:

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“Blogger Burnout” is a frequent joke around here.

But it’s true.

Andrew Sullivan quit blogging in late January 2015, as we reported at the time Breaking – Big Blogger Burns Out. Sullivan’s announcement focused mostly on a desire to change paths:

Why? Two reasons. The first is one I hope anyone can understand: although...

Blogger Burnout.

A frequent topic here, first visited on January 15, 2009, Add “Blogger Burnout” To The List Of Blogger Ailments. For those of you keeping track, that would be about 3 months after I started Legal Insurrection.

Three months! Even then I realized that being a blogger could be about the most...

A narrative is emerging that the entire Brendan Eich evisceration campaign was a public relations stunt by OKCupid.   That narrative is emerging from the left, based on facts uncovered by the right.

Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller was the first to report that the founder...

A boycott and pressure campaign was launched against Brendan Eich, recently named CEO of Mozilla (which owns the Firefox browser), because in 2008 he contributed to a pro-Proposition 8 group. Eich resigned after a revolt against him at his own company due to his contribution.

Prop. 8 enshrined in the California...

Mark Steyn observes in The Collapsing of the American Skull:

One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly….

The Southern Poverty Law...

That’s what Andrew Sullivan calls me because I pointed out facts which contradict his narrative of Sarah Palin.

Funny thing about facts, Andy.  Name calling can’t change them.

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