Comments on: It’s not the “crime” http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/07/25/its-not-the-crime/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marvin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/07/25/its-not-the-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-229353 Marvin Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4547#comment-229353 As long as elections are done in person or via snail mail, younger folks with internet fever from those social networking sites will not be voting. My daughter, a college sophomore this fall, was given a form to register to vote in the college town, but to complete it required that she enter her current voting registration information. So, she has not submitted the form. As long as elections are done in person or via snail mail, younger folks with internet fever from those social networking sites will not be voting.

My daughter, a college sophomore this fall, was given a form to register to vote in the college town, but to complete it required that she enter her current voting registration information. So, she has not submitted the form.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/07/25/its-not-the-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-229280 virgil xenophon Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:03:31 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4547#comment-229280 For an insight to the world of Tony Pierce, the LA Times blog editor who wrote the memo, visit his site "busblog." He's a "hipster" who attended UCSB and used to live in the Isle Vista community up there. I first stumbled across him in 2004 from the blog "Meltingdolls" run by a red-headed, dope smoking, gun-toting bombshell named Bunny McKintosh who was then a college student at U. of Georgia. She somehow hooked up with Tony on a trip out west she and her boyfriend took (now her husband and a newly commissioned officer in the Army stationed at Ft Polk, LA with orders for Iraq--she is off to Japan to work when he is deployed-- the ironies never stop). Hit her website and go to blogrolls and hit "me and Tony Pierce" for a photo essay that will give you a feel for the sort of lifestyles we are talking about here. My point in bringing this up is that unless we older types(I'm 64) stay plugged into what I call the "moneyed," "hipster" communities, we miss a lot of what goes under the radar. The connection between Tony Pierce and Bunny is (1) family money(2) education(3) lots of free time(4)the internet. Bunny met Tony thru another hipster up in Canada named Raymi the Minx who has been voted the #1 female blogger in Canada. All of this gives insight behind the Obama phenomenom which is driven largely by the internet and You Tube, myspace, and facepage networking. So------in this case we have a left wing hipster from Santa Barbara, who by dint of his web connections gets hired by the LA times as their weblog editor and, as we see today, ends up in a position to seriously affect the course of national political events. Question: You think he's the only guy like him out there in positions of power and influence these days? Old media is desperate to hire people plugged into the blogosphere and the "youth" community and a great many of them with the most technical expertise and the widest contacts are left-wing hipsters like Tony Pierce. Once you start burrowing into this alternate-lifestyle community cum semi-legit, it will water your eyes. For an insight to the world of Tony Pierce, the LA Times blog editor who wrote the memo, visit his site “busblog.” He’s a “hipster” who attended UCSB and used to live in the Isle Vista community up there. I first stumbled across him in 2004 from the blog “Meltingdolls” run by a red-headed, dope smoking, gun-toting bombshell named Bunny McKintosh who was then a college student at U. of Georgia. She somehow hooked up with Tony on a trip out west she and her boyfriend took (now her husband and a newly commissioned officer in the Army stationed at Ft Polk, LA with orders for Iraq–she is off to Japan to work when he is deployed– the ironies never stop). Hit her website and go to blogrolls and hit “me and Tony Pierce” for a photo essay that will give you a feel for the sort of lifestyles we are talking about here.

My point in bringing this up is that unless we older types(I’m 64) stay plugged into what I call
the “moneyed,” “hipster” communities, we miss a lot of what goes under the radar. The connection between Tony Pierce and Bunny is
(1) family money(2) education(3) lots of free time(4)the internet. Bunny met Tony thru another hipster up in Canada named Raymi the Minx who has been voted the #1 female blogger in Canada.

All of this gives insight behind the Obama phenomenom which is driven largely by the internet and You Tube, myspace, and facepage networking. So——in this case we have a left wing hipster from Santa Barbara, who by dint of his web connections gets hired by the LA times
as their weblog editor and, as we see today, ends
up in a position to seriously affect the course of national political events. Question: You think he’s the only guy like him out there in positions of power and influence these days? Old media is desperate to hire people plugged into the blogosphere and the “youth” community and a great many of them with the most technical expertise and the widest contacts are left-wing hipsters like Tony Pierce. Once you start burrowing into this alternate-lifestyle community cum semi-legit, it will water your eyes.

]]> By: Tom G. http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/07/25/its-not-the-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-229075 Tom G. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:16:43 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4547#comment-229075 You can't make this stuff up.. You can’t make this stuff up..

]]>