This is a post about another blog post linking to a previous post about a news article. Got it?

I noticed a record number of views on my WordPress blog on 8/10 (56 – how sad is that?), and discovered that my post called “Trapped Miners? What About Cleaner Coal?!?!” was referenced by a New York Times blog.

The relevant paragraph with the link read: “Meanwhile, some bloggers of a more conservative bent are sticking up for some of Mr. Murray’s views and lambasting his liberal antagonists and the media coverage, though not always leaping to defend the man himself.”

I didn’t actually stick up for Mr. Murray’s views, but rather focused on yet another example in a fatiguing parade of “unbiased news”, as well as political opportunism and finger-wagging condescension that, had it been perpetrated by a Republican, would have been the top story for a week and drawn demands for censure in congress.

At first I thought, “WOAH!!! I GOT REFERENCED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!!!” which quickly turned into “Huh, for the New York Times, 56 views is pretty lousy!” and then, “Well, it’s just an NYT blog, there must be a hundred of those.” and finally “Gosh, just two views on Sunday, huh? Well, party’s over.” See how fast I did that? Fame to bupkis in four sentences.

Was that my 15 minutes? No camera time at all? No calls from Mark Steyn to chat over a steak?

Ah, well. Check back later for a letter from our cats.