Last week we got an e-mail from a nice guy who had a good suggestion for the site. After we thanked him, he e-mailed back and cryptically let it be known that TheLostOgle.com is pretty popular these days at the State Capitol. I figured that he was being polite, and moved on with my day.
Then, I checked our inbox again, and found a link to this fancy thing Blognetnews.com has put together. Basically, it’s a listing of Oklahoma’s “Most Influential Political Blogs.” And for some reason The Lost Ogle is #10.
Where to begin? The idea that this is a political blog seems to be quite a stretch. Sure, we take the occasional swipe at Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, and we enjoy using “Mary Fallin” and “State Trooper” in the same sentence as often as possible, but those are easy targets, fastballs down the middle. We spend most of our time doing things like alerting the world to Lauren Richardson and making fun of Bob Barry, Jr.
This wasn’t started as or intended to be a political blog, so I’m wondering if the problem is BlogNetNews’ program or if there are just so few political blogs there that this really is one of the most influential ones. I’m thinking it’s the former, since Okie Funk isn’t on the list and it is definitely more political and (hopefully) more influential.
In any event, if somehow this blog hasn’t been blocked from capitol computers and for some reason there are people there actually reading this, I might as well take the opportunity to ask them if there is some way they could ban Dean Blevins from the airwaves? Or at least censure him or something? If this could get done, I will continue voting for you. At least until Gary England decides to run.
Weren’t we #2 in that ranking last week? Do I need to take some more swipes at Inhofe and Coburn?
Yeah, we were amazingly, ridiculously, #2 last week. We’ll see if any of our 100 Initiative Ideas get implemented. If Craig Humphreys is suddenly USA Today-less next week we’ll know how influential we really are.
someone in the state government should set up a secret agency of ninjas to take out the top 100 oklahoma embarassments. this would leave us very little to talk about, but it would be cool to see some ninjas in oklahoma.
I’m going to have to veto that idea Phil, seeing as how TheLostOgle.com was #87 on the list.
I’d be impressed to see some ninjas take out the entire city of Bethany, though.
Red Ninjas or Black Ninjas?
What the??? I thought this was the official website for the Fascist Party of Oklahoma…… Oh well…. Guess I can remove it from my Favorites now. Sorry for the mistake!
clark you make a good point. as leader of the secret ninja organization, i grant all members of thelostogle.com a pardon. btw….. the only thing more powerfull than my ninjas would be toby kieth’s all powerfull boot, so if someone could make sure that he is wearing flip flops when we come to get him, that would be super.
If Big Boy’s pirate brigade will assure TK in flip flops, we can put your Ninja initiative at the top of our platform.
You’re a political force because your website is so funny. This mirrors the actions of Oklahoma government.
I dunno. Anything that keeps people from reading Okiefunk can’t be all bad.