AZ BlueMeanie

The Blue Meanie is an Arizona citizen who wishes, for professional reasons, to remain anonymous when blogging about politics. Armed with a deep knowledge of the law, politics and public policy, as well as pen filled with all the colors stolen from Pepperland, the Blue Meanie’s mission is to pursue and prosecute the hypocrites, liars, and fools of politics and the media – which, in practical terms, is nearly all of them. Don’t even try to unmask him or he’ll seal you in a music-proof bubble and rendition you to Pepperland for a good face-stomping.

What Michael Bryan said, and more

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Editor and Publisher of Blog for Arizona, Michael Bryan, has responded in a guest opinion in the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday Blogs with pseudonyms add to discourse to an opinion by a Daily Star reporter the previous Sunday which appeared on the front page of the "Tucson & Region" section as … Read more

A time-honored American tradition

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Apparently the history of American journalism is no longer taught in journalism school. Go figure. In 1733, Benjamin Franklin began to publish the famous Poor Richard's Almanack (with content both original and borrowed) under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, on which much of his popular reputation is based. Franklin frequently wrote under pseudonyms. … Read more

Vote Sanity 11.02.10

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Rally to Restore Sanity has concluded. It struck me as performance art, an extended version of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report mocking the political media for its insane coverage of politics. Blog for Arizona makes this same point on a regular basis. I saw a number of people in the … Read more