What's with the labels on your blog?

Labels, or "tags," as everyone except Blogspot seems to call them, are a way to impose some categorization on blog posts. Clicking a label will return all posts on my blog that are similarly tagged. I mean, labeled.

If you'd rather search my blog a different way, you might try the index. Or use the search box on the blog itself, in the top left corner.

I have just started adding labels to my blog posts, so there aren't many of them yet, and the ones that do exist don't really point to all the posts they should. And this page is really just a stub still a work in progress. Please bear with me.

[2007-08-20] Update: I've created several new labels, and labeled the most recent 100 or so posts. I am definitely coming to understand the impossibility of taxonomy.

[2007-08-22] 150, about. Through May of this year (counting backwards).

[2007-09-05] 225, about. New stuff, plus back through about April 2007. Note looming exponential decay.

[2007-09-27] new label explanations added. Not very many more older posts labeled. Note evident exponential decay.

[2007-10-07] Labeled through Feb 2007. Only about 500 left to do!

Here are the labels I use:

• administrivia -- blogging about the blog
• awww -- things that make you say …
• CCs -- copies of stuff that I've sent to various public figures
• demdems -- donkey baiting. See also: "goptalk"
• geekery -- computer stuff mostly, along with anything else that makes my head feel pleasantly pointy
• genpol -- political stuff that doesn't fit under "demdems," "goptalk," "wingnuts," or "WPE"
• godma -- challenges to religious dogma. See also: "wingnuts"
• goptalk -- elephant poop. See also: "demdems"
• gripes -- all of my complaints are well-reasoned and completely valid
• hillno -- arguments against voting for Hillary Clinton
• McSame - -arguments against voting for John McCain. See also st. john.
• nts -- (notes to self) stuff I post so I can find it later. May lack details or applicability for you.
• nytpicks -- recommendations and irritations related to my favorite newspaper
• Obama -- Yes We Can. Yes You Should.
• OPW -- Other People's Words, and my reaction thereto. Also, pithy turns of phrase, and recommendations for your reading, listening, and watching pleasure.
• pix -- posts in which a thusand words are (usually) obviated
• pfaves -- personal favorites
• quiz-answers
• quiz-questions
• rambles -- stories of the characteristic walk through life. Warning: label may also imply something about post length.
• remembrances -- reflections on the good ones lost
• RTC -- Resistant To Categorization
• science
• shoutouts -- not everything I say about other people is mean. Sometimes I actually praise. Yes, dear, sometimes I even fawn.
• sports
• SSP -- Shameless Self-Promotion
• st. john -- arguments against voting for John McCain. See also McSame.
• unserious -- stuff from the lighter side, including my feeble attempts at humor, offbeat observations, weird events, and other people's fine witticisms
• vids -- embedded video clips
• wingnuts -- people too crazy even to be filed under "goptalk" or "WPE"
• wordplay -- language fouls, new words
• WPE -- the Worst President Ever, and his cronies