Fraters Libertas

The City Pages Babelogue: Pressed Hams Under Glass

People are constantly telling me there’s no joy in reading the blogs associated with the local alternative newspaper, the City Pages. Between the seething, hysterical anti-Bush ranting, the wild-eyed John Ashcroft-related conspiracy theorizing, and the general level of obscenities and vulgarities, even for Lefty fellow travelers it’s an unpleasant exercise trying to get through even a couple of these things. (That is, when their regular columnists aren’t taking their customary two or three weeks off between postings.)

I sympathize with this review of what’s happening on their so-called Babelogue. However, I will suggest you give them one more try, as a recent posting on their blog index gave me more smiles than a month’s worth of Tom Tomorrow cartoons.

Apparently last week there was a coordinated effort among Left leaning blogs across the nation to protest the lawsuit filed by Fox News against Al Franken, his upcoming book, and his use of their trademarked phrase “Fair and Balanced.” As far as I can tell, the blogs were all supposed to gratuitously use the phrase “Fair and Balanced” in their posts, in an attempt to spite Fox’s attempts to protect its trademark.

Try not to laugh as you read the Babelogue Index’s report:

Fair and balanced? Was it ever! ...... over 500 participating blogs letting Fox News know how very, very much we love them ..... but the big news was the scope and success of the first-ever cyber-mooning. Exposing their ass cheeks to power, the online Left may have just come of age.

(The laughter of Saint Paul echoes throughout the empty offices of Fraters Libertas.)

Ahem, yes, I think they have come of age. And apparently that age is fifteen. Which isn’t bad for a bunch of ‘alternative’ journalists whose median age appears to be somewhere close to 40. Keep swinging for the fences kids.