(Any blog whose first Google hit reads “You can only squeeze so many people into a mensroom at the Minneapolis Airport…”….)

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

of Obama holding fundraiser to help Clinton pay off her campaign debts—and he forgot about that part of the evening, gave his speech, said goodnight, left the stage—and had to come back out and do a not very smooth request to the donors to reach under their chairs to find an envelope to make a donation to Clinton.

OMG. It was so Big Man on Campus, having wooed the not hot date, then, well, forgetting he’d made the date. The kind of guy who might do such a thing on a dare, with no caring at all.

Uh, I do not expect a call from Obama…ever. None of us libs/progs/lefties should expect anything at all.

Can’t even remember the damn reason for the fundraiser!!! And he traveled with her to NYC.

What a guy.

We are so NOT on his radar screen….

So funny if not so sad.

Thanks….

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Crow tastes awful; I can’t say there aren’t plenty of people I’d like to make eat it, but the General was never on that list.

We’re dealing with an honest person here; that, and the implications of that, are the key point of this post — not this or that piece of trivia about the gilded butterfly of the day.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

picked up by AP.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washingt…

Hope URL gets trimmed down and doesn’t break the margins….

Even slightly worse than the TV/radio versions!

The Democratic nominee-in-waiting then wrapped up his speech and thanked the audience, moving to shake hands along a rope line.

”This is not the speech part, but it is important,” he said sheepishly, urging the group to reassemble.

Good grief.

I love it! That’s the kind of gift that keeps on giving….

Good snark is always in the detail, which the quote provides (haw).

Not, of course, that I personally am snarky, or advocate snarky behavior in others….

As for the URL, the site should shorten them, but alas, doesn’t always. Preview is your friend.

The real answer is to learn a tiny bit of HTML, and then you can integrate your links into your prose which is far more elegant, and leads to better writing, than just dumping in the URL.

RL calls, so I can’t explain, but it really is simple, just ask around in comments.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

after a series of clicks, embeds the URL in the highlighted words. I love it, so easy, and no chance of typos, which I excel at. And somehow with the HTML stuff, I don’t see the typos as well as in plain English.

Any way to incorporate that linky thingy here?

<> go before and after each section,
around both “a href” AND “/a”

First write, with these spaces, with < first:

a href=your url to article

then >, then the word you want linked in your piece (will change color)

then < and /a and >

I can’t write it out exactly here because it would just show the result…

However, if you do this kind of stuff a lot, you’ll come to find that there’s a reason to type the damn tags in: It’s more productive. The typos are a learning curve problem, nothing more. Plus its DIY. When the telcos destroy net neutrality and introduce tiered pricing, the true costs of cute little widgets like that will become apparent very rapidly…

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Better late than never and if Obama does manage to somehow get himself elected we’re going to need people who hold his feet to the fire rather than the gang of enablers he’s had so far.

Obama, in turn, echoed Clinton’s call for unity.

“With just half a wing this bird can’t fly,” he said.

Another half a wing, and you’d have a bird with…one wing.

If you use Firefox for your browser, ScribeFire is a nice Extension which can help translate plain text into html. I use it all the time. Good luck, and know there is a learning curve, it doesn’t come overnight.

Fer instance, here’s your story, whose link I checked first during the “preview comment”:

Obama briefly forgets to urge help for Clinton

… as gardening, or learning to paint, or making wine. Not only do you learn something, it gives you more power, instead of taking away power.

And technically, HTML is just a form of punctuation that machines can read instead of people. oncetherewasnopunctuation orevenwordspaces andthentechnolodyinventedthespace andthenthecomma andherewearetoday….

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

with tags. I have very dutifully tried to learn how to do tags properly only to have our every effort scotched by the computer gods. I am awesome at starting whatever the tags are supposed to do but then can’t make it stop. I haven’t tried to link anything here yet out of fear of breaking your site…

You have to close them after the link. So you put the link in like this:

< a href=”LINK ADDRESS”>

then you write what you want to write

then you close the tag with < /a>

Same thing for italics

< em> then close the tag after the italicized words < /em>

Note the space before the a or the / should not be there, put in so that it doesn’t turn into a tag.

as the spring that closes a screen door.

“If you open it, close it.”

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

…Fool Themselves:

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.p…

(this was published yesterday, interesting and relevant commentary.)

(solemnly promise to “master” embedded links at some point. :-)

the /

It is crucial. It is the period that ends the sentence. If you don’t close the tag with a /, it doesn’t close, and continues down the whole page.

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

taught me how to do the purple prose of links.

once i learned, i could not stop; it was addictive.

give it a try; you’ll fall in love.

the best part is putting up your own purple prose that folks who will read and click on.

one can be imaginative in that prose, or even, in the best weblog fashion, obscurely sarcastic.

Go to the top of this page, the one you are on now.

Click on “Books” to open.

Click on “Correntewire Operating Manual” to open

Click on “Correntewire How To’s” to open.

All needed HTML secrets for posting are revealed.

Also:

Click on “Input Format” below the comment box.

Click on “More information about formatting options”

All the HTML tags you will need at Corrente are listed.

Always use Preview; Preview is your friend.

All Thanks Be To Lambert.

<Just sayin’….>

Should have looked at the main topic and all that detail stuff, eh? Complicated, this comment thing; offer help and the next thing you know, slam!

JG is a good head; sometimes decent people look at the same data and come to different conclusions, is all. A straight up class act, he is.

[Can I get probation now, judge? I need to be home to water my garden.]