Fleeing the Outpost
Sep 2
Joe Carter is a very creative and interesting blogger who founded Evangelical Outpost, and has been a friendly antagonist for some of us here at Lean Left for a long time. Joe has just announced he is turning EO over to some faculty from Biola, and focusing his efforts on creating a new blog and a conservative social-networking site: Culture11 (no, I don’t know what it means).
I haven’t agreed with Joe on very much, and have always been happy to say so with my usual delicacy, but he has been very friendly and helpful on blog-related issues over the years, and I have always admired his blogging. He consistently came up with engaging, clever, and innovative ways to keep his blog exciting and relevant; I’m sure he’ll do equally creative things on his new venture.
Best of luck with that, Joe.
#1 by tgirsch at September 2nd, 2008
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He consistently came up with engaging, clever, and innovative ways to keep his blog exciting and relevant
And wrong! Don’t forget wrong!
I’ve actually met Joe in person once. We had lunch. He’s a really nice guy, and that’s often easy to forget with people we disagree with so frequently and so strongly. In fact, of the few bloggers I’ve met, there aren’t any who stand out in my mind as “wow, was that guy ever a jerk.” And I’ve even met KTK!
(I kid, I kid!)
#2 by KTK at September 2nd, 2008
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Dude . . .
#3 by Joe Carter at September 3rd, 2008
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Thanks, guys. I hope you’ll come visit me at my new digs.
By the way, we have an article that might be of interest to your readers: Goodbye FBI (http://www.culture11.com/node/31688). It’s about Mike German, an FBI agent who became an ACLU lawyer. The tone of the article definitely “leans left.” ; )