Judging by the comment left by “me” at 3:44 this am — yes, it used flowery language and odd sentence structure and other hallmarks of my infamous pseudo-intellectualism, but I assure you that I was at that moment dreaming about making out with an old Jr High crush named Mindy, not sneaking comments onto the site — pw as it stands is still not stable.
I’m working with Pixy on the issue, and we hope to have everything squared away soon.
Meantime, let me do a bit of generic, right-side approved blogging, just to keep the site going:
“Obama Does Thing We Disagree With; Outrage follows, Pitched in Form of Exasperated Irony”
And here you thought _________ was ___________! SOMETHING IN ALL-CAPS AND ITALICS!
Here’s where you’d normally read some journalist’s account of that thing Obama did with which we disagree, followed by supporting evidence or commentary.
For instance, here, Some Dude, head of a Conservative Think Tank, might offer, “to say something in support of our contention that the President is yet again overstepping his authority.” Some Dude will do so in language less aggressive than the language generally deployed by Visigothy wingnuts, but that’s okay. Because once the block quote is finished, I’ll reiterate, add a few bits of analysis, and do so in a way that is much more direct than those who have actual jobs and reputations to protect. But first, perhaps an extension of Some Dude’s quote, to cinch the point: “Here is the point: see what I said earlier. And here is how I’ll cinch it: something that cinches the point.”
Something ironic.
Some analysis.
A warning.
A suggestion that I’m tired of writing the same things over and over again, and that nobody listens to me anyway.
Expletive.
Discuss!
Where’s the Harrumph!?
You’d better watch your ass
Perhaps you’ve found an area of broad agreement. We should run that one up the flagpole and see who salutes.
PW’s instability is the only reason I feel welcome here, but that’s the routine instability to which I contribute with my comments, not this hacker shit.
Mildly amusing, only half relevant, comment with a few typos.
Sly sexual reference aimed at Pablo.
Pretty fair Byron York piece on why Santorum crashed and burned in ’06.
undoubtedly Leigh will whole heartedly endorse it.
(via Glenn Reynolds)
And, I had to sign in.
I am not to be blamed for any further idiocy that may be posted under my name.
Don’t worry.
Nobody ‘cept maybe JD’d be able to tell the difference anyways.
Great. So now I don’t know whether I’ve got a buff chick from Detroit or a geek named Deng eyeballing me.
Generally agreement, tempered with some overly paranoid trepidations about social cons, mostly just to avoid sounding like a fanboi and to keep the site from being too echo-chambery.
Rick Santorum: consistent fiscal conservative.
link to off-topic article everyone is reading, and already linked four times by other readers, in three other threads.
A quick hit and run comment.
The York piece was fair. But here’s the thing: Casey is the son of a popular former governor. He ran as a moderate (to Santorum’s FAR RIGHT IDEOLOGUE WARMONGERING SOCIAL CON). The DNC poured a ton of money into the campaign, outspending by a 3-1 margin. And Specter, not surprisingly, fucked Santorum.
Yet:
Santorum twice won a blue state running as a FAR RIGHT IDEOLOGUE WARMONGERING SOCIAL CON. Romney lost by 16 pts to Ted Kennedy. And Romney didn’t bother trying to run for re-election, because he knew he was going to get smoked.
So. Santorum can come across as argumentative and people often don’t like him because he won’t back down. This makes him appear arrogant, etc.
To which I say, I can relate. And I’d vote for me. Therefore…
Half-jesting yet also uncomfortably half-serious remark to Carin, third-wheeling off her continuing sexual repartee with Pablo. Followed by a smidge of attention-whoring.
Oh, please notice me.
Some troll hijacks the thread and posits something highly controversial such as – contraception for married couples isn’t evil.
90 comments of pandemonium ensues.
Jeff quietly bans troll
PW’ers celebrate victory of having run off another hapless troll with their overwhelming intellect. It feels a lot like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcu5sYxcEuo
Jeff contemplates next month’s “pay to win” fundraiser.
I’d say Santorum knows what he believes and believes what he knows and doesn’t feel the need to apologize for it (or validate your beliefs if they’re different from his).
Also, regrets if I relinked a previously linked piece.
If you are who you say you are, Carin.
How many yards did Barry Sanders rush for in his rookie season?
I’d say Santorum believes what he believes but has no idea that there’s a difference between what one believes and what one knows. This is somehow seen as a strength.
Oh, please notice me.
Ha. I snorted a bit too.
, regrets if I relinked a previously linked piece.
actually, it was just entirely coincidental.
If you are who you say you are, Carin How many yards did Barry Sanders rush for in his rookie season?
Oh, come on. Anyone with google can get that answer.
if Mrs. O’learys cow tipped over a chevy volt and it burned down Chicago
is that a good example of karmonic?
Casually cruel comment revising troll’s handle in a vain attempt to humiliate the shameless.
There is another thing about the 2006 races which goes unremarked. There was an internet based campaign, sort of a proto-tea party, against earmarks called “Porkbusters”. It seemed to be aimed mostly at Republicans in Congress.
One of the effects it had was that the DNC recruited and ran so called “conservative” Blue Dogs against Republicans who were fingered as big spenders. These Blue Dogs were what lifted the Democrats into the majority in Congress.
They were also the the part of the Democratic caucus that had to be bribed into the passage of Obamacare and then sacrificed on that altar in 2010. And now the polity that elected them is being purged from the new purer progressive Democrat Party in the run up to 2012 as they have served their only purpose, passing Obamacare.
Okay, I’ll bite:
what is the difference between what one believes and what one knows?
Porkbusters was a big project with Glenn Reynolds.
I am not a fan of earmarks. But I found Inhofe’s case compelling, I must say, and it tempered my views a bit on the subject.
One line comment that attempts to be snarky.
Regular commenter declines to take trollbait, noting that it’s as effective as setting a salt lick out for brook trout.
Another comment mentioning the latest troll and intimating that he is likely an idiot.
sometroll hijacks the thread and posits something ludicrous, like, say, a straw man argument suggesting that Republicans are against contraception for married couples simply because they respect the right of people of a certain faith to hold that view unmolested by those not of that faith looking to decide how that faith must believe and behave, when really, it’s none of their fucking business.
90 additional comments looking to change the subject, look for gotcha moments, pretend that we’re not talking about liberty but rather about SCIENCE and REASON ensue.
Jeff publicly points out sometroll is actually “thepill” from earlier incarnations of trolling — and has likely appeared even before that under yet another bunch of names in order to troll this site.
sometroll/thepill/whateverothertrollnameshesused celebrates having used a fake name and a fake email address to drop red herrings and straw man arguments into the laps of evil Rethugs. It feels a lot like this:
http://youtu.be/3prsMCc85zY
sometroll signs up for yet another new temporary email address and picks yet another new temporary user name so that he can continue to show his bemused interest in the loons who post here. But he’ll never contribute to the site. Because he’s entitled to be heard.
Troll responds to
with, “Are you fucking kidding me? Knowledge is an acquaintance with truths and facts. Beliefs are strongly held opinions. Beliefs need not have any connection with the truth. You can know the world is round. You can believe it’s flat. You can’t know it’s flat. You can know you’re going to die. You can believe you’re going to heaver. You can’t know that you’re going to heaven.”
PW’ers commence in trotting out a long, long list of facts they choose not to believe mixed with the most egregious left wing tripe they can find, so as to equate the facts with the tripe, and rail against the whole supposed notion of knowledge, the MSM, and science.
Do you know that or do you believe it?
Anthropogenic Global Warming. Go.
Heartfelt expression of boredom with the direction the troll has taken the thread, with no effort whatsoever on my part to redirect into more productive subject matter.
(We are supposed to be playing ourselves here, right?)
Halfway decent (at least in my mind) refutation of the troll’s assertions. Agreement that the troll should be ignored, even though this comment feeds the fire.
(My understanding is that we’re playing ourselves)
Attempt to redirect the thread to more entertaining subject matter, which no one else will run with.
A reminder not to feed the old reference to trolls. Admonition to stay on topic.
Random comment inserted with the belief that it is somehow relevant.
Amazingly funny/insgihtful comment ignored by others followed by sad realization that commenter is not funny/insightful.
Unilateral declaration that someone else has just won the thread.
Comment pointing out in a hopefully easier-to-understand way that trollish person’s statement contraception for married couples isn’t evil is unlikely to find much disagreement here and is, therefore, spectactularly unsuccessful trollbait.
Jeff G, a self proclaimed champion of classic liberalism, supports the “right” of a catholic Taco Bell owner or the board of a catholic run hospital to go line-by-line through the insurance policies of their non-Catholic employees and strike coverage they consider immoral. Because, in the words of the Catholic Bishops, “If I can’t scrub your health care of items you might use for immoral purposes, I’m not free! I’ve had to go against My Conscience if some fucking protestant is able to pick up a her pills.”
“I’ll go to jail first!!! Jail!!!” Although it’s already the law in 28 states, in many cases for more than a decade. And last time I checked, they Catholic hospitals and universities in those states were still open for business and the prisons weren’t full of priests. Well, not full of priests for this reason anyways.
I agree it’s overreach when done at the federal level. But not at the state level
But Jeff, who really is knowledgeable about the founding fathers and original intent and “it means what it means”, and who really is rightly fearful of government tyranny is fully supportive of religious tyranny. Because of teh founders. Except they hated religious tyranny too.
Now quick, ban me, lest I fuck up the next fund raiser by interfering with the regulars’ satisfaction in paying to win.
Abject boredom with troll sets in.
Too-long refutation of some aspect of the troll’s argument (complete with ‘funny’ parenthetical asides), posted hours after the thread has died, which no one will ever read or respond to.
While typing with one hand.
Wait, you said “while playing ourselves”. I might have mis-read that.
Half-hearted attempt to point out that the troll is making more ridiculous assertions and completely distorting the truth, followed by a request the many names said troll has used before on this site. Comment’s purpose, which was to relieve my boredom for a few seconds, fulfilled.
Shouldn’t that be facts we choose not to know?
We really need to try to find some smarter trolls.
Expression of intense interest in any newsletter and/or blog troll may have produced expanding on his/her intriguing arguments.
Offhand notice that the troll is arguing with cartoon characters in his head rather than with actual interlocutors and their actual arguments.
I fart in your general direction, mendoucheous twatwaffle.
Insincere and possibly sarcastic inquiry into the insurance coverage Taco Bell provides their minimum wage part time bean heaters.
Tacet acknowledgment that, in the spirit of this particular thread, the troll is engaged in a wonderfully subtle and nuanced bit of self-parody.
Bravo!
Sarcastic observation of the 24/7 total control Taco Bell wields over its employees.
Another sarcastic observation wondering how in the fuck we got to the point where Teh Won gets to dictate to any employer what they must provide, for free, to their employees. Should this become the accepted standard, I would like to request that he mandate that my company’s auto insurance company provide me with a new Mercedes SLS AMG every 6 months.
Or a Lexus LFA. Or the new Acura NSX. I am not picky.
Curious musing as to why Obama hasn’t mandated universal free food. Does he wants everyone to die?
Jeff G, a self-proclaimed champion of classical liberalism, supports the right of a catholic Taco Bell owner to decide what kind of coverage he wants to buy. Using his own money. And he supports the rigths of those not happy with the coverage paid for by the guy who buys it to take a job somewhere else if that unhappiness is a deal breaker. The job is not owed him, after all. As Jeff realizes.
Well, provided you define “religious tyranny” as forcing someone to take one of your icky, god-slathered jobs, then tyrannically telling them that if they want condoms or pills, they can buy them themselves, if for some reason you chose a health plan that didn’t provide such coverage — and instead opted for, say, dental.
Which I don’t define it that way. And very few people do. Nor do any serious people believe there was some crisis in contraceptive acquisition that this White House has selflessly helped remedy/
Now quick, go sign up for another email address and come up with another user name and register yet again, because you really just must must must be heard!
Notice me!
Observation that Obama doesn’t want everyone to die, just those that don’t acknowledge the incredible being that is THE WON.
Second observation that those who worship THE WON are okay with being slaves, though the chains may be invisible.
Pointless observations that “thems what pay the bills call the shots”, there is a big difference between “preventing” and “refusing to pay for”, and that there is nothing stopping a fictitious, straw-based Taco Bell employee from buying all the abortificants she wants and rolling around on a big pile of them, Scrooge McDuck style.
Followed by a mocking dismissal of the “if Mommy doesn’t buy a cookie for me, I can’t have a cookie. Waah!” childishness of the Modern Left.
And a needlessly vulgar closing “Buy your own fucking cookies!” summation.
Half-hearted spelling flame on the utterer of “Tacet”.
Ironic note that the trolls who proclaim this message, this site, and the people here to be outliers, fringe extremists, and marginal, they spend an inordinate amount of time trolling an inconsequential place.
Ella F.: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
I want my NSX now, beeotches. Chop, chop.
Offtopic comment, directed at JD, about the Tough Mudder in Florida next December.
A random Monty Python reference mocking the latest boring incarnation of a pathetic juvenile troll, not realizing someone else upthread already has.
NSX? Where the hell is my free gas?
Off topic comment directed at Carin that toughmudder on 18 MAR will be harsh. And fun.
It’s Two! Two! TWO tyrannies in ONE!
Completely off-topic link to hilarious #TwitterHashTag.
Totally unrelated riff on some random phrase in a recent comment in an attempt to be funny, while completely missing the particular pop-culture milieu from which the phrade originated.
(Still playing myself, FYI)
It’s Shimmer.
Generic observation that I can only log in via my iPad. It will not allow me to sign in via iPhone.
Veiled demand for an iPhone, on the grounds that you should have brought one for everyone, you greedy bastard.
We should get NOW and NARAL to lobby for free iPhones for everyone, Slarti.
Inane comment deleted before posting, thereby sparing would be commenter even further embarrassment.
Observation that JD and Slart have hit on the liberal recipe for social justice: If everyone can’t have, no one should.
Shorter version: Benevolence through malevolence.
Belated musing to the effect of: if only some troll’s mom had used effective birth control…
Some strike out humorfollowed by a Tina Fey’s cock joke and a self-link (some good chart-fu if I do say so).Occasional Commenter offers helpful link to hypothetical Taco Bell worker:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/personal-products/condoms–product-type/
Wonders how many condoms said Taco Bell Worker actually goes through in a month to warrant that it be covered by her employer. Figures if she’s getting that much action, she may want to get off her back and ask Taco Bell employer for more hours……..
Funny anecdote about how MayBee taught Siri to call her Princess, and taught me how to teach Siri to address me as Sir Zeus.
Comment predicting when sometroll/shotbythedictator/elfie will start throwing anti-semitic insults.
notice of a deleted trackback to a Lawyer, Guns, and Money blog post (by SEK? not sure, didn’t go read it) that begins with the disclaimer that the educated academics at that site don’t normally pay attention to my irrelevant unpolished ramblings, but that someone alerted them to a particular post of mine, so they came over and read it, and now they remembered why they don’t pay attention to my site, etc., which they’ll go on to explain to you in a post that everyone reading is not supposed to notice is the very performance of paying attention to my site.
Deletion of said trackback rationalized because site proprietor didn’t read the post reacting to his, doesn’t plan to, and honestly doesn’t much care what a bunch of movement leftists have to say about anything, other than “we surrender”.
Which makes him unlike said movement leftists, who pretend to assume an ironic distance, only to spend real time writing about how bored they are to write about irrelevant sites like the one they just trackbacked to.
These are a pair:
Rahe: More Than a Touch of Malice
and
Ledeen: Freedom and Tyranny
Comment accidentally posted to wrong thread.
Comment noting that previous comment was accidentally posted to wrong thread.
Expletive.
Comment inquiring what the thread did wrong?
Near-obligatory lowbrow expression of obeisance along the lines of e.g. this.
Acknowledgment of having seen trackback referenced in #80 before it was deleted, followed by unnecessary and unhelpful mention that my site doesn’t “do” trackbacks so I don’t have this problem.
Followed by mention that the fact my site has no traffic has no bearing on why I don’t have this problem.
Wow! Tbogg, SEK, and Scott Lemieux commenting, SEK and Paul Campos writing at LGM. It’s a murder’s row of stupid over there.
And, yes, the trackback was from SEK.
Countdown, with numbers and commas and stuff, preceded by a humorous prediction of another commenters reaction.
Wait a minute Slarti are you sure that wasn’t the White House Press room when Dear Leader stops by?
Random comment about something that’s bothering me right now, with acknowledgement that I really should be working.
I’m just glad that SEK could tear himself away from important discussions of e.g. wheat (I am not making that up) and Dr. Who (really: not making it up) to express how completely uninterested he is in arguing with Jeff.
Because we were all on tenterhooks, here. Eleventerhooks, if possible.
OT comment pointing out that the ShamWOW! guy is back on TV, selling a cat-hair remover.
ShamMEOW!?
Cognitive dissonance must really hurt. Because it hurts just watching these clowns prance around avoiding it.
One day we’ll look back and label this era The Era Of Something. If we survive it.
Silly ass comment wondering if Mindy put out or not.
Link to exquisite stump-grinding action.
Observation that this thread would really heat up if we stopped playing ourselves and started playing others.
Followed by fear of what that actually might entail.
SEKs is a festering rectal pustule of racisms.
“Observation that this thread would really heat up if we stopped playing ourselves and started playing others.”
dicentra: dressing up grinding OT comment with flowery description.
From the Rahe article in #81:
Man, does Rahe get the Left. If it makes sense to attribute their actions to malice, you can stop right there. You’ve got it right.
Never underestimate how much the Left is powered by contempt and malice. Never forget that they’re the scorpion and you’re the frog.
feets: extremely foul baby-talk about socons and hoochies.
Socons are the new cool. I’m thinking of getting a sweater vest.
Haha! *evil villain voice* You’ll all be in church soon!
(not playing myself): spam comment about cheap gucci handbags (edit in misspellings to suit)
Late-to-the-thread, extremely long comment with lots of comma splices and run-on sentences about a tangentially related scientific principle having to deal with the troll’s various claims above.
Also random greeting and further declaration of desire to ram a portion of own anatomy into a hard surface out of frustration with the status quo.
Very-late-to-the-party dire warning of the end of the Republic and an unfathomable comment that, while I play myself on TV, I’m not myself in real life.
A short comment idly wondering “what the hell’s the deal with Murfreesboro, TN, anyway?”
Post self-referential diatribe or confusing non-sequitur, just to fuck with people.
Finally strolls in after all the heavy lifting’s been done already; admires the latest troll’s-head-mounted-on-a-pike and stealing “Murderer’s Row of Stupid™” helpfully donated at #87. Yes, tbogg’s in that lineup wherever he surfaces.
Leaves link to a ghastly photo of the World’s Top Broomstick Model. Forgets to give adequate notice, causing a run on eyebleach at many local five-and-dimes.
You warned us; I looked anyway. It’s like slowing down to look at a wreck.
Posts link to image of a wide-eyed cat with the caption “What has been seen cannot be unseen”.
(over-used emoticon here)
Hours-later return to thread, resulting in a comment responding to another comment that’s already obsolete.
(We are supposed to be playing ourselves here, right?)
W-w-w-w-with gusto !
Blockquote of #93 and notation that the Dade County mugshot therein is very funny shit.
Snarky undermining of the “be someone else” idea.
Embarrassing typo. Halfway clever thought undermined by fact that said philosopher didn’t live during the previously referenced time period. 90’s era nod to hallucinogenics. Link to song that no one else really recognizes in lyrics that no one else has ever heard.
Extremely short paragraph of one sentence.
Torn between expressing admiration for your perserverence or making a liar out of you when you said
“…that nobody listens to me anyway.”
Unless you were applying some kind of reverse blogchology
To which the response would be QUIT FIRING!!! (unless it’s the friendly kind)
Followed by a humble self depreciating remark noting that someone using a macho call-sign (that is clearly an overcompensation for a shortfall in some other area) certainly is not qualified to recognize/participate in an irony laden 3rd person discussion.
Thereby lampooning the entire exercise but concerned enough to recognize the potential for hurt feelings and mitigating said possibility with one of these ;)
Self-satisfied critique of quote, detracting from, and missing the point of, both the post and the quote.
I’m back to doing me…
Toke up.
Notes there are serious disadvantages to working nights since this all happened whilst he was quietly sleeping.
Hm. Another troll spewing and playing the martyr when his antics get him banned. How… unsurprising.
Fervent hope that this comment is numbered #120 in the very near future.
iGloat.
Very late, possibly bitter, observation on how Jeff is correct, yet runs into illogical pushback from knuckleheads, “pragmatists”, trolls and other poltroons.
Possibly tangental reference to odd occurrence during some deployment or another.
Todd Rundgren
You Tube
Link