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Miguel discusses some of his background in response to CSGV’s calling out a comment of his.

Looks like Caleb scored a gig with Insights Training Center. They are going to produce a new web series called Down Zero TV, “which each week will feature an ‘InSights Training Tip’, where one of InSights Training’s top flight instructors will use their skill and knowledge to make the view not only a better shooter, but safer in their everyday activities.”

I arrived home yesterday to see my neighbor getting into his car with someone. Waved hello, as I tend to do. I quickly noticed he was with a guy who looked awfully familiar to me. Scanning the memory bank to try to associate a name with the face, “That guy looks like someone I know. I think someone I’ve met once through blogging. ‘Smite a Hippie‘ is his nom de plume, I think.” I probably gave him an odd look, because it seemed hard to believe that someone I know through blogging just happens to be getting into my neighbor’s car. I am reluctant to say anything in case it’s just a matter of someone having a very similar face.

“You’re Sebastian, aren’t you?” the man I am now sure is Mr. Smite says. I affirm my nom de plume and say hi. It turns out he’s friends with my neighbor. I do not know if they were off to smite hippies, but if so, this is an activity I fully support, so I did not wish to keep them waiting.

Small world, for sure.

At least one victim is filing counterclaims. Righthaven will no doubt argue there is no merit to this claim legally, but what can I say, karma is a bitch.

John Richardson gives us some background on the new blogger, but it’s a twist on our favorite Brady Board member’s blog.

I hadn’t realized it has been a year since RightWingProf died of cancer. It’s also my mother’s birthday, who also died of cancer, at 43. She would be 60 today. So here’s to both of them.

UPDATE: I think this passage, from around the time when RightWingProf discovered he was terminally ill from cancer, is profound:

Focusing exclusively on Christianity, however, when a woman says, “‘And all mankind’ makes me feel excluded,” she is being narcisssistic. The church and its worship is not about her, or me, or how it may make us feel. It is about worshipping God. Period. My feelings, exclusion, political correctness, all of these are substituting ourselves as the focus of worship. Further, it is narcissistic to the point of dishonesty, as she knows that “mankind” is a gender-neutral word, as is “man.” By insisting that it is not, she is placing herself at the center, and demanding that the liturgy revolve around her.

The crucial concept here is substitute. Narcissism is not merely injected into worship. It replaces God with oneself. It is the purest, most heinous blasphemy. And it goes far further than just wanting “inclusive” language.

Churches can be divided into two groups: Those who view worship as worshipping God, with God at its center; and those who view worship as affirmation of one’s essential goodness, in which God plays no real part.

That’s applicable in realms broader than religion.

Caleb is announcing a new partnership, Mr. C. is getting into e-commerce for gun stuff, and a few bloggers have scored writing gigs. I’m clearly not doing something right, since Snowflakes in Hell has been in the red for a number of years! Actually, I think it’s a case of many bloggers just being more ambitious about this than I am, and being much better at the whole marketing thing. I’m an engineer by training . Marketing is a scary word to engineers.

Monetizing this blog has always been something I have wrestled with, because I could make enough from it to make it worth my while, but I have, to date, not made the leap. Every time I think about it, something always changes my mind. Last time was Clayton getting sued. The fact that this blog not only doesn’t make money, but costs money, helps any fair use defense against copyright infringement. But really, that’s mostly a lame excuse. The truth is I’m too lazy to spend much thinking or doing anything about making money off this whole operation.

So I will say that we currently have no plans in the works to try to monetize, though I wish everyone who’s striking out into commercial ventures good luck. If our company goes TU and I lose my job, I may resort to begging you all for donations to help defray hosting costs. I may not be above that. I don’t actually pay for hosting, short of the juice to power the machine, but I do pay for the 25 megabit pipe that feeds my servers.

Looks that way!