LTC John lost a friend.

but we’re afraid Rush Limbaugh might cut our cojones off and swing them around his head like a bola if we tried. Boo hoo. Dicentra, in comments: “Please. They’re not afraid of what Rush says. They’re afraid of criticism from NYT, NPR, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, and the letter Y.” Yolanda! OMG, how gauche!

Per Ric Locke’s advice, I’m elevating what was a comment to its own post. Here are the essential bits: I was serious last night. I want out of the ridiculousness that the conservative blogosphere is becoming. I want to evolve into something more useful. Last night’s surreal encounter hammered that point home to me even more forcefully. I have no desire any longer to debate people like Patterico, who can

I blame Bush. Even though, like, well — you know.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright thinks that there might be things people need to do for themselves. I like this turn of phrase: “stone cold intellectuals“. I think Jeff bridges the gap, honestly. As for me, I can feel the sick craving for blog attention as it wells up from my limbic system. Is Obama injured?

Waking up to the new America. This one goes out to Brooks, Parker, Frum and company! Treacher, on same. Is Main Street starting to figure it out? It’s hard not to see* the continued sell-off on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street as a product, at least in part, of the realization that our new president’s policies are designed to radically re-engineer the market-based U.S. economy, not