Samuel Kennedy wrote:
So, I can't help but wonder, *is* Bomis somehow associated with the United States Marine Corps?
Not in any way at all that I can think of, no.
The accusation seems to run as follows...
Jerk Sauce, which is a blog written by Tim Shell, who manages the content of Bomis, links to the blogs Command Post and Tim Blair. Those blogs, in turn, run advertisements from the blogsads.com syndication agency. One advertiser for blogads.com is Spirit of America.
Spirit of America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which raises money which is used to assist members of the military channel goods to help local people where they are serving. A typical example would be baseball and school supplies for a village in Iraq.
I fail to see how this set of facts could possibly warrant any sort of disclaimer. Bomis hosts a blog which links to other blogs, which run ads for a charity, which assists members of the military. Even if the Bomis blog itself directly raised money for the military, which it absolutely does not, even then no disclosure would be warranted on the article.
My own philosophical and political convictions are well-known. Many Wikipedians will disagree with me on political issues, but no rational person could conclude that I have in any way sought to impose my POV on the Wikipedia in anyway. Indeed, one of the reasons that I so seldom edit is precisely to eliminate even any appearance of impropriety in that regard.
--Jimbo