Bent Corner

A lot has been made of late about something stupid conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said about members of the military that favor leaving Iraq. He referred to them as “phony soldiers”. This comment has got a lot of people upset. So much so that Limbaugh has even gone back and edited the transcript of his show to change the context of what he said.

This is something Limbaugh doesn’t normally do when he says something stupid.

I’m having a hard time understanding all the outrage over this specific comment. Granted, it sounds as though Limbaugh is dishonoring those who serve their country, both past and present, but how is that newsworthy? Why is it so hard to understand that Limbaugh doesn’t have respect for members of the military? What would make anyone think that Limbaugh cares about the troops?

I would think that if Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would be outraged that so many of them have been killed in a war waged over false pretenses. The last time I checked, George W. Bush went to war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) and he had ties to al-Qaeda. Things that turned out to be not true. If Limbaugh cared about the troops, he would want them to come home, especially now that it’s clear they were sent to wage a war under false pretenses. If Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would speak out against the idea of a never ending war. Instead of speaking out against it, he advocates it.

It seems to me that Limbaugh is being criticized for simply being Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh said something stupid. That’s just what he does.

I think I’ve finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.3. I wish I knew then what I know now. There are things I’ve learned since upgrading that would have been nice to know back when I originally upgraded. For instance, even though WordPress 2.3 wont work with tagging plugins such as Ultimate Tag Warrior, it will import existing data from Ultimate Tag Warrior. It will import from other tagging plugins such as Jerome’s Keywords and Simple Tagging too.

This would have been nice to know. Instead of importing, I manually edited posts with new links. It was probably for the best since I was able to correct some issues with images and other alignment issues.

I also found a great plugin today that takes the built-in tagging capability of WordPress 2.3 and converts tags to link to Technorati. It’s ingeniously called Technorati Tags For WordPress 2.3. Once you’ve installed the plugin to it’s usual spot (/wp-content/plugins/), you will need to manually edit your theme’s single.php and index.php files. This is what I did:

Before

After

This will make your tags link back to Technorati instead of an archive on your own blog comprised of posts using that tag. I would rather have tags link to Technorati. Like they used to.