PYTHON POWER: Paul Krugman makes a bid for Lying in Ponds approval by making another Monty Python reference in today's column, his second of the year (first "Bring out your dead", today the dead parrot). I've also come across one reference to the Black Knight in his Y2K columns (I'm almost finished with them, really!). A quick scan of all of this year's columns shows one Python reference each by Bill Keller and Sebastian Mallaby.
GOOGLE POWER: Traffic to this site increased sharply early this week. As far as I can tell from the logs, the reason was that so many visitors arrived from Google searches for "Maureen Dowd". The Lying in Ponds Maureen Dowd page is number three on the list (the number two link is to a Brazilian web page in Portuguese!). Out of curiosity, I checked to see the position of Lying in Ponds pages in Google searches for columnists in the top ten:
Lying in Ponds in Google Searches
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In general, the better-known columnists have many more links to them, so Lying in Ponds is further down the list. Thomas Bray is an exception -- one or more men named Thomas Bray were prominent in Colonial times.
| Author/ Affiliation |
Title/ Date |
words | PI | Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Krauthammer Washington Post |
The Clinton Paper Chase 25 October 2002 |
962 | 100 | 12D-: Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Carter, Carter, Clinton administration, President Clinton, Clinton |
| Paul Krugman New York Times |
Dead Parrot Society 25 October 2002 |
895 | 100 | 16R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration |
| Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal |
Whew 25 October 2002 |
1249 | 100 | 4D+: JFK, Adlai Stevenson, JFK, Kennedy |
| Jim Hoagland Washington Post |
A Matter Of Weeks 25 October 2002 |
907 | 80 | 4R+: administration, Bush, Bush, Administration 1R= |
| Kimberley A. Strassel Wall Street Journal |
Tax Wags Blue Dog 25 October 2002 |
1446 | 37 | 7D+: Phelps, Phelps, Phelps, Democrat, Phelps, Democrat, Rod Blagojevich 9D-: Democrats, Phelps, Phelps, Phelps, Phelps, Phelps, David Phelps, Phelps, Phelps 22R+: GOP, Republican, John Shimkus, Republicans, Shimkus, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Bush, Shimkus, Republicans, Republicans, Shimkus, Shimkus, Republican, Shimkus, Shimkus, Shimkus, Shimkus, Ryan, Shimkus, Republicans 5R-: Bush, Bush, Republican, Jim Ryan, Republicans 3D=, 5R= |
| George F. Will Washington Post |
Mayor Bloomberg's Math 25 October 2002 |
942 | 12 | 5D+: Pat Moynihan, Ed Koch, Democrat, Democrats, Moynihan 8R+: Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Republican, Bloomberg 1R-: Republicans 1D=, 1R= |
| Nicholas D. Kristof New York Times |
Saudis in Bikinis 25 October 2002 |
862 | 0 | |
| Daniel Henninger Wall Street Journal |
Pure Melodrama 25 October 2002 |
1197 | 0 |