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| The Diplomad gives up blogging | |
| 2005-02-05 | |
| One of the blogosphere's greats calls it quits. Here's an excerpt from the farewell message: Well, friends and foes of The Diplomad, the time has come; it's time to say thanks and good-bye. Above all we want to thank great sites such as Chrenkoff, Power Line, Betsy's Page , and Ex-Pat Yank that gave us a boost in our early days. . . . It's been fun; the postings from the readers have been great (except for the idiot trolls -- the same ones who collapsed our hotmail account and made it useless.) But for a variety of personal and professional reasons it's time to stop (we might blog again under a different name; might not.) Lest any of you think so, we have not been threatened or shut down; the State Department goons are not knocking at the door. It's just time to do something else. I wonder if "host nation sensitivities" played a role--but that's purely speculation on my part. The Chief Diplomad urges all of you to read the very well written brother sites at Daily Demarche and New Sisyphus (maybe they'll let us put up an occasional posting.) We've heard that our Republican cousins over at USAID might be starting a blog, too, so keep an out eye for it. Thank you, sir, for your service--not just for the blog, but for all you do for our country, and for the people of the world, out there in the Far Abroad. If you, like me, enjoyed reading the Diplomad, click the link and leave him a thank-you in the comments.
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| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Allah, the Commisar, now the Diplomads. Please don't let Rantburg be next. |
| Posted by: jackal 2005-02-05 11:20:15 PM |
| #6 Wow, Mike, that professional jealousy is really eating at you, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-02-05 11:58:45 AM |
| #5 I fully understand. Blogging is extremely time-consuming. This is why journalists have an edge. They actually get paid for the highly-imaginative fiction and opinion they put out on the news pages. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-02-05 10:03:15 AM |
| #4 Does he plan to take this opportunity to go into rehab? It's apparent Mike S. hasn't even read the blog he is dissing. What a loser, that Mikey boy is!!! |
| Posted by: too true 2005-02-05 10:00:10 AM |
| #3 Out front now. Good deal. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-02-05 8:57:09 AM |
| #2 Too bad it didn't work for you. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-05 8:29:06 AM |
| #1 Does he plan to take this opportunity to go into rehab? . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2005-02-05 8:23:32 AM |