Tim Blair

Tim, your boring little postings will just jam up the works.

Do nothing and they will come.

You might consider a name change.

> might I suggest Little Green Goalpost

Tim, Great to have you back.

Hope you had an enjoyable visit to my homeland. A bit too warm in Southern CA, si? It's rather similar to our Sunburnt Land, is it not?

Caught your piece in Nov 18 issue of the Bulletin. Loved this:

"(The left have never forgiven Reagan for ending the Cold War; in fact, they dispute that he had anything to do with it, usually giving credit to some commie bystander named Gorbachev.)"

Tim, please have a quiet word with Bulletin TV columnist Patrick Carlyon. He wrote in his 18/11 Jimmy Carter piece:

"Americans did the only sensible thing. They voted Carter out and voted in a B-grade actor instead."

Methinks Patrick is a confused or ignorant, or perhaps both! He NEEDS your wisdom, Tim. Help him clean out the cobwebs, would you?

Or perhaps I could enlighten the dear boy. I was there in New York City, November,1980, campaigning for Reagan in the last desperate days; one of a few voices crying out in the wilderness of the Fuzzy Utopians. It was...challenging.

Let's just say it was a memorable experience being posted outside a Manhattan upper east side polling place on election day. One clever trio approached me smirking, one wearing a "Reagan for Shah" lapel button. How cute. "Laugh now, cry later", I shot back.

I'll never forget the elation and vindication we felt while watching the TV election results in NY Republican HQ. The US map was a sea of blue for Reagan and a few islands of red for Carter. How appropriate the color choices! One could wax eloquent upon the rich symbolism.

Tim, when is the next Blogfest? Thanksgiving Day is coming up fast. I promised before to bring the pumpkin pies. So, what's the word?

Hasta la vista, amigo
Yanqui Virago

What was the grand Listening Tour (capitals Tim's) all about? Was it just a wanky name for a holiday?

hey, if you can afford to cruise around 'merka in a caddy the size of battlestar galactica you can afford the extra bandwidth

I liek 2 talk 2 my freinds in teh comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geeze, about time.

Welcome back. Now get to work!

Glad you're back.

Tim who? I thought this was Andrea Harris's blog.

Listening involved listening to this

I think it's time for a new poll.

Yes, a new poll.

I've written it for him:

Tim has just completed a Grand Listening Tour of the United States. Where should his next vacation be?

(a) Taking a vegetarian detox holiday helping out on Philip Adams' farm
(b) On manoevres with the New Zealand navy
(c) Competing in the next Paris-Dakar rally in an automatic Datsun 120Y with Margo Kingston as co-driver
(d) Attending the next International Socialists' annual convention in Birmingham
(e) Joining the Brisbane Lions on their next annual end-of-season trip.

No, Joe G., just on my server space, which is why I do get concerned about excess trollage. Hope you don't have a problem with that. Though if you do, I've got the tiniest violin in the world all ready to play a sad song for you.

Damn, woman, I meant it in good fun!
You've got an itchy violin finger.

Just checking.

Tim you really had me fucking worried. I began to think that roaming around the good old USA you'd start thinking this is a helluva lot better than home. God forbid. I've missed you man and was really beginning to think that you had given up on the tremendous source of pleasure you provide for us eeevil right wingers who desparatley need a spokesman with wit. Mark Steyn can't do it all by himself.

How mundane.

Don't care where you go on yer next trip, Tim, as long as "Dallas, Texas" is on the itinerary. Two or three days should do it.