Don’t express your intentions. We’ll tell you what they are.
Feminism.
Tbogg: A semi-conscious blogger
And I would never follow that post up with a second one which implicitly suggests your misdeeds are the equivalent of a mother arrested for neglecting her children, or to the people who allegedly caused a young woman to commit suicide.
Where is that suggested? I can’t say. But despite my claims as to what I meant, it’s clear I was disparaging her and suggesting that her misdeeds are the equivalent of the above, except that the real outrage is what I’ve posted. Even if I cleverly made it seem otherwise, while I cleverly copped to the truth in the face of all this outrage.
 You know what you are, Steve D?  A liar. And if you think it’s so horrible that I’ve linked something in the public record that might cause people to judge her to her detriment, why, in your zeal to protect her, have you just reduplicated the act?
Out of the great, glorious generosity of your spirit, I am sure. Niggle.
No, really, I’m sorry and I wish her well. Really. Honestly.
Wow.
Dan Collins, fill-in insufferable twat at Protein Deficiency, has taken loathsome douchebaggery in the blog world to a whole new level with this out-of-nowhere hit job on an ex-girlfriend.
UPDATE VIA INSTAPUTZ: Jeff Goldstein has issued an update to the post linked above and he gets a sincere “bravo†from me. I’m also open to the notion that this might be a spoof post, as some people have indicated in the comments at PW, though no one, including Goldstein, seems entirely sure.
UPDATE UPDATE: It really was his ex-girlfriend. Yikes. This boy’s got (say in sing-songy voice) issues:
Huh. Well, first of all, I know this person much better than you do, and she knows something about me, as well, Second, the reason she went to medical school in the first place was through my urging. Third, I know her well enough to know that she will interpret this as the psychological hand up that I intend for it to be. Fourth, if you think that I would post something like this just to intensify someone’s humiliation, you don’t know me at all. Fifth, the fact of airing this is liable to give Sahlu some sense of how little I think this is important to my conception of who she is, and because that is so, and because I’ve been honest in a way that was liable to bring criticism upon me, I am hoping that it gives her some breathing space in the great wide world, because I know that she is not at all as brazen as she would like to seem.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: Due to a follow-up comment by Goldstein I’m dialing back my “sincere ‘bravo’†to a golf clap.
Posted by Kevin K. on 11/16/07 at 10:57 AM
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Classy. And lucid.
It’s like Lake Tahoe without the obnoxious liberals.
Golf clap sounds like it itches.
Wow.
Hey, how come I never get called an “insufferable twat” by NY’s Meatiest blog? I just as big a twat and at least as insufferable as whatsisname. It’s the peg-leg and the eye-patch, isn’t it? ISN’T IT?
Piratist!
I thought it was pretty douchy. You were either stupid or lying about wishing her well.
Thanks, commander0. You see, I wanted there to be this huge fallout, so that she’d be totally, like, humiliated. And also I did it because I wanted the attention, which is why I kept right on blogging away afterwards. Also, it’s clearly incitement to rape.
Did I miss anything?
That means our troops are fighting for a peace that we seem more interested in achieving than the Iraqi politicians do themselves. Except that they’re demonstrably more interested in that peace than say, Harry or Nancy, or Hillary or that Obama guy, or like Democrats in general, who are all amazingly apathetic about peace, but you know what we mean. Wink wink.
Oh. I just thought we needed a more better example of “stupid or lying” is all.
In light of this, I feel we should just surrender in Iraq.
Well, ok, but only if we do it peacefully.
If the passing jackals piss at the base of my Dan Collins monument then I’ll worship hero-Dan over at rumptoastloafwhatever.
Dan, just stop digging. If you don’t think what you did was wrong, fine, just shut up already. Hitting up PW to see if Jeff posted anything new is substantially less fun if I am going to be treated to garbage like this. If you have something substantial to say, go ahead, otherwise stop ruining this site’s (once) fantastic ratio of good posts to nonsense.
I hear you, but Jeff usually doesn’t post on weekends and if you were really a big hitter upper you would have known that so I can’t help but think maybe you’re speaking from someplace deeper, or maybe you’re displacing. One time when I was little my parents took me to a farm and I was little and I was kind of acting up and there was this pail of water and for no reason at all I took it and threw it on this little white duck. I turned around and my Dad was looking right at me, but I didn’t get in trouble. He was a good Dad.
“Thanks, commander0. You see, I wanted there to be this huge fallout, so that she’d be totally, like, humiliated. And also I did it because I wanted the attention, which is why I kept right on blogging away afterwards. Also, it’s clearly incitement to rape.
Did I miss anything?”
Like I said, it was stupid. Buy some balls and own it.
What’s most telling in all of this is that the usual suspects in the Progg Community are simply using this as another springboard from which to base attacks. The provocation isn’t important; all you need is a half-conceived reason. Happyfeet was entirely correct when he pointed out the silliness evident in complaining about Dan’s exposure of this woman’s problems as an indecent act while linking to the very post that exposed her. It puts the lie to this faux-concern for her.
Rather than chime in on the appropriateness of Dan’s original post, I’m just going to add that if it wasn’t the “ex” post that generated a groundswell of outrage from a group of individuals who have made a cottage industry of personal attacks from behind the safety of a computer keyboard, it would’ve been something else.
Yeah. But it was a lame thing to do in the first place. And double-lame to do it on someone else’s website. And triple-lame to do it on a sometimes-political blog.
I thought on the rightosphere we made an attempt–as much as on can, within the glorious anarchy of the web–to “police” our own. Often, all that really means is expressing displeasure when someone goes over the line.
So consider me displeased. Not that I expect you to give a crap, Dan, but it was a cold post. Stone cold.
But Jeff already expressed all that stuff, eloquently. This is just piling on, really, and it’s just like Tessie Hutchinson said.
You’re right ‘feet. I had not seen the other thread comments and thought I was reacting afresh to the first post. Dan HAS been well flogged already. I’m glad he’s still here.
I hope you kept the receipt for your balls.
How nice the link to the home page says “home.”
But Jeff already expressed all that stuff, eloquently. This is just piling on, really,…
Not necessarily. If one person tells you you’re drunk, you can listen or not. If we all tell you you’re drunk, you’d do well to sit down and hand over the car keys.
Good grief.
I’m not certain what happened here? Dan posted something on public record about an ex, in a way that was not attacking, and somewhere else in the world (as per butterflies in china) a hurricane blows through.
Maybe I’m too thick-skinned?
I think it’s terrible the way they fearmonger to stay in power.
Outh, ouch, Ouch, ouch! I’m hurting for Dan.
This will pass, eventually. But don’t let it happen again. Pain like this should be experienced but rarely…unless of course you’re one of those who likes pain, for whatever reason. Or if you’re an Arizona Cardinals fan.
We board the Pain Train weekly…
I’m drunk, so someone help me. With the lead in, I was sure the link was going to Dan’s Ex gf’s post. Somehow, I ended up on a page about the Frischonator. Who, exactly, is mad about what and when?
Dan, I love ya. I have not been able to hit the tip jar, but it’s tourist season here in the Caribbean, so I hope to hit PW up soon.
Dan, I think the only mistake you made was the one JG already called you on. I think judging someone’s motives instead of the results of his actions is just stupid. And though I’ve never met you, what you say about a “hand up” is consistent with your past writings.
–Also, the type of shit they’re shoveling at RumperRoom, et al, shouldn’t cause you a moment’s worry. Consistency in motive or writing has never been an issue there.
Dan has been the life support of this blog for a year now. He’s been a worthy Joey Bishop to Jeff’s Johnny Carson. But, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong, and you’ve gotta know how to admit it.
I accept Dan’s explanation, as far as I can discern an explanation, that there was no malice involved. His fault lies in misjudging his audience and his forum. Kind of like Ann Coulter cracking a punditsphere in-joke about John Edwards, to a group of unsuspecting meatspace conventioneers.
I’m a daily PW reader as well as regular pledge drive supporter, but I’ve never before commented. The original post was inappropriate and completely lacking in class, as others have expressed much better. The follow-ups and justifications, as they always are in situations like this, are worse. Please drop the shovel, climb out of the hole, and feel free NOT to post if the PW muse isn’t inspiring you. We don’t need posts for post’s sake.
Well now it’s just kind of devolving into grousing. If I ever want to lynch somebody I’m so not inviting you people.
This is only going to get worse. You see, I’m going to write about this on my website. With a link to their website that links to your website.
All the while I will be castigating you about violating her privacy. You know, her internet privacy. And my readers will be able to castigate you as well. And of course, they will be able to link to the other websites that are all castigating you as well about violating her internet privacy, all while they are linked to your site and the actual internet privacy violation.
So while you’ve violated her internet privacy, she will now have 2 layers of internet protection GUARDING her internet privacy. The math works. Trust me.
Now all I have to do is start a website.
Oh, and I love the word “niggle.”
…also “penumbra.”
To the professional link-grousers flocking in to pick still-living flesh from bone…
Ahhh…Conversations like this will soon be cropping up at dinner tables all across America. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Swede – Would you mind if I linked to your post about somebody else’s post about somebody else’s post about Dan’s post?
Never mind what all those mean nasty liberal blogs are saying about you, Dan. The simple point remains: way back in 1984, you and I were graduate students at the University of Virginia. Sahlu was a charming, sweet, funny young woman. And she was all of 25 when you were dating her, twenty-three years ago. Whatever happened between you then, there is no reason for you to discuss her on this blog. She does not deserve any of this. So just be a good man and take down the posts.
He already killed the link, idjit.
Nice of you to name her again, though.
Christ on a cracker, really.
Flag on the play. Unsportsmanlike conduct. Late hit. Lack of reading comprehension. 15 yard penalty. Automatic first down.
Dan – For what it is worth, had they not latched onto this, they would have just picked out something else to be faux outraged over.
And so, I’m sure, she remains. Your point?
No. She is entitled to her obscurity, because it’s just too shameful to contemplate. And all I wish to do, obviously, is cause her pain, under the cover of the idea that I really care for her.
Why, the very idea that I’d stick up for her in public . . . that would bring opprobrium down on me, wouldn’t it? Couldn’t have that.
I respect you, Michael. I de-linked her. But if you don’t understand why I’ve done this, and what it’s meant to say . . . and what I hope it does . . . then you don’t respect me, nor do you know me.
Did I make her a figure of fun? I said what she is, and that she’s loveable nonetheless. I’m sorry about the sexuality. I find it hard to shake.
and as I turned to make my way back home
the snow turned into rain
Your own, or your perceptions about hers?
My own, AG. Is it shameful if I admire a copious bosom?
I’m glad you de-linked her, Dan. Happyfeet, dear idjit and moron and imbecile and retard (have I exhausted that genre of epithet? I try to be well versed in it), I apologize for not catching the delinking. And I completely agree that my naming Dan’s ex is the problem here.
Sorry. Diacriticals just sort of bring out the worst in me. It’s a provincial thing. I’m working on it.
There’s only one victim and that’s whoever the good doctor screwed up. Good people sometimes do bad things, that’s true, but tell me this, did Michael Vick ever scar a human for life that he was trusted professionally to care for? Count Shamu [sic] lucky. She never did a day of hard time, now did she.
I’m glad I’m here to clear things up. :)
You forgot dolt, Michael. *rolls eyes*
Not shameful, Dan. Males trend toward being a bit irrational when it comes to boobs.
This can be very helpful sometimes, of course. I’ve gotten a number of free pasta dinners on account of it, and I happen to like pasta.
So that’s that.
Any thread that contains a line from a Fogelberg’s “Old Lang Syne” is a winner, so far as I’m concerned.
Game, set, match to happyfeet.
And thanks to He of Many Diacriticals (sorry, I don’t know the shortcut keys, or I’d type out the name) for drawing out said lyrics.
“Met my old lover on a rightwing blog / the snow was absent Al Gore grieved…”
I think I’m going to tear up.
I was out for a while. Did I miss anything?
Could someone please clear up my confusion. I thought we were going after gays, immigrants and Muslims first and then we were going after ex-girlfriends. Did someone change the priorities of the conservative movement without telling me or is Dan Collins acting on his own? It’s just that I have all these great anti-gay, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim posts already prepared, but if I have to scrap them and start attacking ex-girlfriends I would really like to know. Thanks.
“Could someone please clear up my confusion.”
It doesn’t seem likely, sorry.
Jon, have you misplaced your official PNAC World Domination Manual? It clearly says you have to think several moves ahead, like in a vast game of geopolitical chess. Therefore, Dan’s just doing recon for when the gays, immigrants and Muslims have been thoroughly dominated.
Chess, Jon. Chess!
What is wrong with you people?
“What is wrong with you people?”
We still have a sense of humor, I blame the ridiculous cost of healthcare.
Well, let’s see — my sinuses are acting up, and my blood sugar readings are a little elevated again (I blame the stores, they’re already stocking Christmas stuff). The little toe on my left foot is still healing from when I mashed it a few weeks ago but I think it’ll be okay in a day or two. Big toe on that foot has an ingrown toenail, I hate those. People keep telling me my picture makes me look like I’m desperately unhappy, but they don’t seem to realize it’s listening to people judging me from a freaking snapshot that harshes my mellow. My wife and I are traveling for Thanksgiving starting this afternoon and we’re going to have a very brief amount of time for getting ready because…
What?
Oh. Well, why did you ask?
“…it’s listening to people judging me from a freaking snapshot that harshes my mellow.”
Sorry to hear it, bro. But McGehee using the phrase “harshing my mellow” just made me blow scrambled eggs out my nose.
Finally a post about boobs. It.is.about.goddamned.time.
“… If we all tell you you’re drunk, you’d do well to sit down and hand over the car keys.”
… especially when they’re the keys to the Bentley, and Dan … you’ve been driving like Harold Wagner Jr.
An image I shall cherish forever.
Cheer up Dan, I just managed to incite people I don’t know to heap scorn and retribution upon myself too.
Only I did it in meatspace. So here’s virtual mud in your eye and I’ll go back to hiding under the couch.
I think it best that at times like this we remember the words of the great philosophers.
“Flounder, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up – you trusted us. Hey, make the best of it. Maybe we can help.”
Whoa…did She-who-must-not-be-named get a hold of Dan’s password? Because while the specific content of the posts of course can not be compared, the mindset behind them seems awfully similar.
StevenD
which implicitly suggests your misdeeds are the equivalent of a mother arrested for neglecting her children, or to the people who allegedly caused a young woman to commit suicide.
This is simply a bone-jarringly stupid statement.
Swen – BOOBIST !
You are engaged in tits-ism, Swen. Maybe you are a hooterphobe.
“Oh, yeah. You are all well-meaning, sweet, altruistic, kind, compassionate, fair, unbiased people. I’m so glad we had this opportunity to all learn how superior you are.
Thanks for having me over. I had a great time.
You certainly took me to school. I learned a lot about myself.”
Dan Collins | Homepage | 11.18.07 – 4:11 am
The ‘examined’ life from it’s own perspective.
Comments at Tbogg have tipped over the 1000 mark. It’s a shame Collins can’t enflame PW’s traffic to that degree. Maybe if outrageous exclamations were an anomaly, instead of daily fare.
Comments at Tbogg have tipped over the 1000 mark.
This has more to do with the commenter than the actual issue. It’s important in the progg community to be seen at these 2 minute hate festivals. Like sharks smelling blood in the water, and with just about the same required level of brain power.
Don’t you find your ever encompassing hate of all things right wing embarrassing cleo? Hell, I’m embarrassed for you.
I, too, fear the outrage.
Stop the war, Mr. Bush! But stop Dan Collins first!
Collins said his ex-girly had a sweet set of tits. This can’t stand. Stop it must.
Tbogg’s is bigger than yours, Dan.
Incidentally, I don’t believe I’ve had the pleasure of having Mr Swift comment here before. Talk about bringing the funny! The whole, “did I miss something? I though conservatives hated gays, Muslims, and immigrants most of all” schtick never gets old. I mean, the mock confusion — as if his worldview has been shaken?
Comic genius.
I’d bow down before him, but that would be a bit too Muslimish. And fuck if I’ll even inadvertently show respect to those brown bastards…
“Like sharks smelling blood in the water, and with just about the same required level of brain power.”
Come here much?
Come here much?
Enough to recognize your continuous self-righteous preening for what it actually is.
You miss the point deliberately despite your seeming ‘education’
If you ever actually make a point other than “I’m better than you” or “right wingers suck”, I think I’ll likely die due to shock.
Semanticleo is suggesting that all we do here is bash “lefties” for the fact that they are lefties. That we enjoy a good lefty-bashing pile on.
eg. My Reagan Ranch posts. Or that one about the numbers I despise. It’s all just code.
Toxic shock is not a natural occurence.
Hey, break it up you two!
Education Guy, back to your classroom.
Spermaticfacial, back to your gloryhole stall.
I am so TIRED of having to be the adult here.
Yeah, it’s pretty amazing how often I use the broad brushed tactic of attributing an act to liberalism or leftism. It’s just the way I roll.
Ya know, I give a rat’s ass about the controversy. Well, maybe 1.5 rat-asses.
But what I really want to know is, did Attila Girl just confess to being a pastatute?
/Johnny Carson
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The pain of Dan Collins’ emasculation stings like it happened yesterday.
Hey! Somebody hold Dan down while I beat him with this stick!! Then we’ll pants him and throw out on the lawn , naked!!! After that, just for fun, we’ll poke his eyes out!! That’ll teach him!
Dan. You dick.
Wanna beer?
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False reports of Dan Collin’s emasculation are attributable to mistakes in sourcing the true ownership of the cock yet removed from Jon Swift’s anus.
NPR this week told me that instead of buying individually wrapped protein bars I should just make an organic peanut butter sammich to take with me and that way I would help the environment and also I would save money.
Jon Swift is even more gayer than that.
“Jon Swift is even more gayer than that.”
Yeah. Might even be (choke) a female. No worse fate.
What are you talking about?
I think you need to learn to repress your gag reflex and you’ll get more second dates.
Is there really nothing better to talk about here? I’m a regular reader too, and if this is causing such a bitchfest why don’t you just delete these posts and move onto something more relevant? If you delete them nobody is going to care, so I don’t see why all this has to stay up, cluttering an otherwise interesting blog.
And I wish Jeff or somebody would discuss the Maryland courts and their threatening parents with jail time over vaccinations.
*smooches*
Glad you know what I’m talking about.
I don’t think you’re really glad. You’re just being stupid on purpose cause it makes you feel better about yourself.
I’m particularly amused by Dan Collin’s stories of his big breasted formers. If you don’t mind keeping the posts to a minimum until Dan tells us about the interesting way his ex-wife’s entire bustline jiggled when she chewed her food, I’d appreciate it.
Then again, any of you want to hear about a nasty infection caused by a body piercing on one of my passed live-ins? It was, like, so gross.
“Comment by Semanticleo on 11/18 @ 12:23 pm #
Glad you know what I’m talking about.”
‘Cause you sure as hell don’t.
happyfeet – For Cleo, teh stupid is just a physical manifestation of its PRE traumatic stress disorder.
Jon Swift doesn’t remove the wrappers from his protein bars before using them as protein wisdom anal suppositories. He conscience carries planet earth to a better place.
~ sigh ~
used to be a fella could come here to read about what movies he oughten’ve seen of the video tape to have for himself some of that celluloid wisdom thingie.
and read softcore Martha Stewart lesbian prison porn.
–
You are so channeling Peggy Noonan.
But what is on my mind today is the simple question of when did Drudge become such a tool? He has been my homepage for, wow, over a decade now. This is another lesson about how deleterious turning 40 can be I think.
I hope he works through this, cause he has always been sort of a personal hero person to me.
triumph of the individual, that sort of thing
Dan, I for one got no problem with your post or it’s subject matter.. Post whatever you like. If I’m not entertained I’ll forget about it 30 seconds later..
If you want to give your posts some legs, however, throw in some reference to “boobs”, “breasts”, “gazongas” or whatever.. or even just something that might allude to “boobs”.. or something that might in the broadest sense be interpreted as a reference to “boobs” by a juvenile male mind.. Or hell, even just the number “2” which is like the “Sacred Number of the Tits”.. We of the perpetual adolescent male mind will do the rest…
Just got back from a week-long business trip.
So, did I miss anything?
On second thought.. Godammit Dan, why couldn’t you just post nekkid ex-girlfriend pics like everyone else?
used to be a fella could come here to read about what movies he oughten’ve seen
Sexist movie review follows:
Don’t miss the new Beowulf, especially if you can see it in 3D. The story and acting are good (not ground-breaking, but competent), but the 3D effects are just stunning. Definitely worth the ticket surcharge.
Much spilling of gore (human and monster), much swiving of well-endowed Danish wenches (the 3D is very useful here), and much drinking of mead.
Plus, naked Angelina Jolie.
Happyfeet, I’ve always used Drudge’s dad’s site, Refdesk dot com. Seems that much-wiser fellow is more stable, as you would expect from the older generation.
He does throw a link to his son, which is nice.
That is a way cool site, if kind of daunting. It’s like it makes you realize that you use an even smaller percentage of the Internet than you do your own brain.
Here, just cause it’s so perplexing… Today we learn that statistics on violence don’t tell the whole story about about a place, that in fact they can do “groundless harm” and “create misleading perceptions.” What am I missing?
Statistics… working against a “key goal”… the AP has done a huge service in exposing this dynamic I think.
It’s only pasta-tution if I put out afterward.
Otherwise, it’s someone buying me a plate of angel hair as a sort of gamble, knowing that the odds are always with the house. And yet, people do that . . .
That’s why I always roll with the fettucine alfredo, Atilla Girl. Makes ’em easier to catch when you clog ’em up.
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Not bloody likely.