I believe that boojums are a subset of snarks.
Joel | Homepage | 06.30.06 - 12:20 pm | #

I wonder when someone will first be described as a premature anti-Blogofascist.

I further wonder when a lefty blogger will put a sticker on the machine he does his urban folk MIDI work on that reads "This Machine Kills Blogofascists."
Ed the Roman | 06.30.06 - 12:47 pm | #

"...the trigla... and the flying ho-o-ogfish!"

Last year the New York Press ran a cover story characterizing Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 911" as "fascist" (without any backing up other than that it was "insensitive"). And "liberals" STILL insist that I am wrong when I point out that "fascist" no longer means anything beyond "I don't like it."
Will | Homepage | 06.30.06 - 12:59 pm | #

"fascist" no longer means anything beyond "I don't like it."

Right! Like, "Bleccch! Who cooked these fascist lima beans?"
Marion (Mael Muire) | 06.30.06 - 2:05 pm | #

"Up against the wall, motherfascists!"

"This coffee tastes like fascism!"
Ed the Roman | 06.30.06 - 2:17 pm | #

This isn't anything to laugh about. We must act to counter the blogofascist threat. Blog posts are the blogofascist equivalent of financing a fascist political campaign, and thus fall under the McCain-Feingold law. The Federal Election Commission must kill these un-American activities in the egg, before the serpent grows to adulthood!
Kevin Jones | Homepage | 06.30.06 - 2:41 pm | #

hmmm... I hope the folks over at APO didn't get your goat with that WATB stuff - very entertaining indeed!
Deacon DW | Homepage | 06.30.06 - 3:49 pm | #

"Blogofascism" is simply a term expressing the extreme leftist's greatest fear: That someone, somewhere, holds a different opinion to himself.
Rhys | Homepage | 06.30.06 - 7:53 pm | #

Uh, you guys must not spend enough time on left leaning blogs as the context of the players is exactly the reverse of what you seem to think it is. Yglesias (the writer of the linked post) is satirizing the closer to the middle Lee Siegel of The New Republic (TNR). Siegel attacked Kos and some other blogs significantly further to the left of TNR (which some would even call "neo-con") because TNR's blog published a post claiming that Kos had "ordered" his fellow left-wing blogs to lay off posting about the SEC troubles of a business partner of Kos's. Allegedly, Kos has the power to "order" other left blogs by virtue of his control of an ad placement service for liberal blogs.

At any rate the left blogs took the original TNR post negatively and responded strongly. Among other things, they discovered that one of the e-mails used by TNR in support of its story seemed to be fake. Siegel, a TNR writer though not the original blogger, responded with the "blogofascist" term. Ygliesias, in the post that Mark linked, is satirizing the Siegel post. Thus, what you have here is a humourous response by a leftist-liberal blogger to an attack by an entity that leftist-liberal bloggers perceive as near equivalent to the MSM.
sj | 06.30.06 - 9:22 pm | #