LYING LEFTY LOVES LUCRE

You know, I often wonder how some bloggers find the time to research and organize their posts, maintain their sites and comment at their own and other blogs. How do they manage to work all day, have a personal life and still find the time to blog prolifically?

Tim Lambert is a classic example: where does he find the time? But, I suppose if I was asking $520 a week for ad space ($3360 for 3 months) I'd find the time... somewhere. I do, after all, have access to the internet at work...

Anyway, Lambert's desire to cash in on his blogging success (the titan currently averages more than 3,000 hits a day!) is understandable, as are his recent efforts to draw attention to himself.

Hoping to get a link from Instapundit, Lambert has over recent days attacked Glenn Reynolds twice. (Lambert's use of tiny snippets to quote Reynolds rather than quoting him verbatim is a dead giveaway there's manipulation of content going on.)

Then there's Lambert's recent three post hatchet job on Iraq Body Count, with endless nitpicking of points of statistical estimate minutiae culminating with this swollen-headed threat to IBC's Josh Dougherty:

But you refuse to correct the error in your analysis. Are your co-authors aware of this? Should I contact them to see if they will correct it?

Hey, who cares if IBC has made a good faith effort to report the number of Iraqis killed? There's money to be made here.

Attention seeking is also the only reasonable explanation for Lambert's disgraceful attack on Dunk Malaria's anti-malaria fundraising efforts, where he sets himself up as an alternative charity:

Dunk Malaria is organizing a Malaria Action Day on March 19th, to raise awareness of malaria. The idea is that people net a basketball to symbolize the insecticide treated netting that is the best weapon against malaria. Good. Except that number 2 on their list of charities is the execrable Africa Fighting Malaria, who are trying to prevent bednets from being used to fight malaria.

I think that we here at Deltoid can, right now, do more to fight malaria than Africa Fighting Malaria has ever done. I will match, up to a total of $300, donations to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Leave your pledges in comments.

Lambert also attempted to elicit a link through a comments swipe at Tim Blair and his readers for failing to donate to the cause:

And how about donating some money to help fight malaria? The Blair folk aren't looking too good here.

Yep, I'm sure the $600 Lambert claims – should we take his word on this? – to have raised will do more to fight malaria than Africa Fighting Malaria ever has.

Lambert may well be an obsessive, lying, purveyor of manipulated misinformation but it's always good to see a lefty embrace capitalism. Bet it won't be long before ScienceBlogs can no longer afford to advertise at one of its own blogs.