Regular readers of my posts certainly know that I’m a big fan of Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom. He’s insightful, funny, experimental and challenging. Recently, he’s been experiencing difficulties stemming from his activities as a blogger, though, and clearly has his priorities right when he says that he needs to take care of his family first.
When, after a hiatus of several months, he recently returned to full time blogging, his readers were ecstatic. Although a handful of people had appreciated the efforts of his legion of guestbloggers, the general attitude towards Goldstein’s return was well expressed by Mark Philip Alger at the Baby Troll Blog:
About Friggin’ Time~ ::.
DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING AT THE TIME because it would have seemed churlish, but I have missed Jeff Goldstein badly, so it is with considerable joy that I behold the last of his guest bloggers heading out the door.
After a long hiatus from full-time posting, Jeff Goldstein’s back at Protein Wisdom, much to the delight of his fans. Drop by and welcome him back.
Thank Grid.
Even those who disagree with Jeff appear to miss him a great deal when he’s not around. Take this recent post (dating back only to November) from Obsidian Wings:
For a while now, I’ve been needing a new lunatic-on-call: a site where I can go when, for some reason, I want to read someone who is completely unhinged. For a while it was Jeff Goldstein, but he seems to have dwindled away and been replaced by an army of less interestingly insane people. [emphasis mine]
Given his difficulties, not only with regard to a certain issue, but with regard to nuking spam, various DoS attacks, and the lukewarm reception given him by some of his high-profile blog-colleagues (though some have been supportive), it is perhaps natural that Jeff feels somewhat disheartened. But when he states that he’s nothing more than a ”dancing . . . armadillo” who is ”disposable” and whose readership would soon abandon and forget him, I have to disagree:
Sure you do. In fact, there are a number of sites on the right who I believe would be happy to see me go away. Because you’d all flock there, and I’d be a distant memory.
Well, I’ve got news for Jeff: first, it’s somewhat hard on his readership to assert that they’re just a bunch of intartube floozies on the one hand, and on the other it’s a great leap of faith to assert that other bloggers might actually wish to lay claim to the lunatics who frequent his blog.
Goldstein is Goldstein, and there is no other, though there were plenty of complaints about the Fool’s Goldstein that was posted while he was gone. His readers aren’t about to go away, because they’ve developed a dependency on the pharmaceutical-grade toadlick he provides to them.
Sorry, Jeff. I just had to call you on this one.
UPDATE: Uh . . . any of you site regulars who feel like chiming in . . .
’zactly.
I am as addicted to PW as all the rest of the chowder heads that frequent this place.
Jeff, if you ever quit, that looney woman that scared the crap out of you will seem like a walk in the park.
As Geoge Strait crooned: “You’ll always be a fire I can’t put out”. There is nothing like you on the net.
Thanks for this little spot of sanity.
So right. Jeff, don’t go away again, please. I can’t tell you how helpful it is to come here, and within seconds, know that there’s someone else in the world looks at what’s happening in the world and thinks it’s is as warped and insane as I do. Without your take on the world, that feeling would be so much harder to come by.
After a visit to PW, I recover a tiny bit of that feeling I had when I was a kid: the feeling that I know everything is going to be alright, because someone else (usually my Dad, when I was a kid) understands and sees things the same way.
Thanks Jeff.
Jeff’s been my favortie blogger for some time now. I got my labmate reading him and PW would be up on one of our monitors several times during the day. We enjoyed discussing the points Jeff makes in his articles. We both agree jeff needs a regular nationally syndicated column. When I hear my labmate laughing randomly at his monitor I could usually count on hearing ‘Did you see what Jeff’s posted most recently?’ next.
Jeff rocks. I can’t wait till he’s posting again. I’ll be here when he does. The End.
I can’t imagine the blogosphere without PW. It’s been a daily fix for years now. From the academic analyses to the psychedelic haiku, Jeff (and company) have provided both food for thought and a lot of laughs, often in the same post. I haven’t participated in the comments threads here because there seemed to be a thriving ecosystem of fans and trolls that didn’t need my meager input, but if this is what it takes I’ll comment daily. This site has been an inspiration and a role model (of sorts) to a lot of wannabes like myself.
i furiously object to hilzoy describing me as less insane than Jeff.
but then she a bimbo, and her opinion doesnt count.
I chimed in at the “posting schedule” post, I believe it was—but if I may expand upon it…
I probably first heard of Jeff about the time his first, extended absence was announced. And I guess the second time I heard of him was when his return from that absence was announced. And I’ve been a benign nuisance here ever since.
I’ll admit that the community is a big part of what keeps me here, and kept me here during Jeff’s more recent lull, but the difference between our guest-posting efforts and Jeff’s inspired output when he came back has been like the difference between riding a kiddie roller coaster in the mall parking lot, and being a passenger on a suborbital missile.
Jeff, disposable? Anyone who thinks so is smoking crack.
Hi, Nishi. Are you really giving up the blogging gig, or are you just recharging, or don’t you know, yet?
I don’t know any other site on the web that combines lunatics and the freedom to disagree with them (and be insulted by them) like this one. Keep up the fine work.
Thanks, Timmy. You idiot.
I don’t get how Jeff could expect (if, indeed, he does) that his stats would remain the same when he wasn’t posting. ProteinWisdom is Jeff Goldstein. Period. While Dan Collins makes me laugh on occasion, not much of what he posts is really the stuff of which long comment threads are made. (That isn’t meant as an insult, btw.)
Your tagline is semi-correct Jeff. Sure, anyone can summarize the news. But to do so in such a way as to inspire 100+ comments is a skill that few have. If you aren’t posting and generating the discussion, then what, exactly, are we coming here to do? I check PW every day, just to see if Jeff posts. If there is a headline in my rss feed that interests me, I’ll check it out, even if someone else posted it. But, by and large, Jeff is the attraction.
In conclusion, to paraphrase a maudlin and sappy Kevin Costner movie, if you (meaning Jeff) write it, they will read.
Or, you could just start more blogwars. Those are always good for hits.
Jeff, please don’t go. Don’t go. Don’t go breaking my heart. It’s man love in a completely heterosexual way and it’s ok.
I discovered PW about a year ago, from a link at Ace’s I believe, and have been hooked ever since. Jeff, you crystalize my thoughts and feelings on the various issues more eloquently than I could hope to myself. You’re also a pretty funny mother f*cker which just cements this blog as my daily must read. But, I think the single biggest issue that draws me back is the battle in Iraq. I don’t agree with you, and the majority if your excellent commenters, that this battle was necessary. But for different reasons than the prog left freaks. But I also appreciate your takes, and other commenters’ takes, on the real reasons which have taken this country to this battle in Iraq. And the possible solutions. This place is a breath of fresh air and the fact that it drives the leftist prog freaks insane basically reinforces its need to exist. From one classic liberal to another, hang in there and know that you have people thinking about you and supporting you.
tw: using72
I don’t think I’ll ever be needing or using those 72 virgins the big mo said that allah promised us at our martyrdom.
Ordinarily I’m in favor of able-bodied men getting real jobs, but if Jeff gets a real job……then that will just suck donkey.
I’ll repost my thoughts from earlier…..
As someone who has been reading your stuff pretty much since you started your site (I was one of the many dissapointed folks when you took your first sabatical), I can say without a doubt that you are not disposable. How long have you been doing this now? I very seldom comment, but trust me I do read almost every day, and I am sure there are many more people like me. And if you can keep people interested, and not just for a month or two but for YEARS, there is true value in what you do.
I found Instapundit back in August of 01, and have been reading blogs since on a regular basis. It has been my experience that the tone and tenor of the entire enterprise has really changed for the worse, as there is very little interesting original work out there anymore. In my mind, its no accident either, as the changes really started to take hold with the rise in popularity of Kos, and the organization of the “left-sideâ€Â. Its just like anything in life really, once the politicians get involved in anything they ruin it.
I like Protein Wisdom a great deal.
The guest-bloggers are not Protein Wisdom.
I’m another voice that appreciates your time and effort, Jeff – and positions. You and Glenn are the two sites I always visit: Glenn for his links and you for the “thinks”. If you need another sabbatical, I’d understand, but I hope you don’t.
Thanks again.
Come on, Jeff. Come down from the ceiling and have a cup of black coffee. I realize we don’t have to deal with that criminally stupid person, so we don’t really know what you’re having to go through. But don’t allow it to defeat you.
Since the beginning of time, one person is the only thing that has ever made a difference. Christ, Einstein, Ghandi, Marx (Groucho, not Karl). Look, Lenin took over Russia with fewer men than are at most board meetings. Of course, one person makes a difference. And you’re that person.
Your latest stuff has been brilliant and if you persevere, you’re on the verge of a breakthrough. Yes, your writing should be available to more Americans: it strikes the right note of intellect and absurdity; it has heart and brains; it’s clarifying. Your time will come. All your hard work has been bring you up to this point.
Come on, baby. Take a couple of deep breaths and take heart. It’s too early to declare defeat–especially when you’re on the verge of victory. You’re loved.
As a quasi-regular, I only have to quasi-kiss ass here. However, as a expression of blog loyality, I’ll go for the full ass kissing.
This is the only blog where the pop references and the knowledge that is nuanced from them in the post in order to induce the irony du joir is so refined that I actually google the said “pop reference” to make sure that I haven’t missed any of the irony.
So it’s like having powdered sugar on a monte cristo sandwich that is so good that you eat the sandwich then lick you fingers,the plate, the table and the little raspberry jam bowl at Bennigans… Which they frown upon, is seems … well, at least according to the restraining order. At any rate, it good because of the thoughful nature and the intellectual framing of the posts but it shifts to great because of the powdered sugar, and to a lesser degree the jam.
Oh yeah, and as a Texan I have a state allegience to the armadillo.
Hey, remember that episode of Night Gallery where the guy kept flushing the spider, and it kept coming back?
I had a poop like that, once.
Timmy got promoted?
It’s been depressing to come back day after day and find you’re still gone, Jeff. This is one of the three blogs to which I’ve kept the faith–please don’t let me down.
I think you should keep at it Jeff. If it’s popularity you are after, then I think you are deluding yourself thinking it a likely outcome for a person espousing “conservative” views. Not impossible, but an uphill battle through a torrent of lefty hefted rotten fruit. If you’re doing it because you think truth matters more than feel-goodism or ego then you quitting will be a loss for everyone else who feels the same way. In the end, you have to do what is best for you, but my advice is to…
KEEP PUSHING THAT ROCK SISYPHUS!
I can’t quit you, Jeff.
I think I must be coming upon my third anniversary of reading PW. Favorite post? a tie between his “convention” reporting and the bit Jeff did long ago where he “rapped” through a park- anyone know where that one is? Of course, it’s not always fun and games, and PW’s serious pieces constantly challenge this mommy-adled brain. On my busy days, and there are many, I can only check-up on two blogs, and this is one of them.
The guest posters are/were ok, but I really only kept checking-in to see when/if Jeff was back. No offense.
None taken. You heinous bitch.
routine surveillance
joy to see the name of jeff
to see it go, sad
Your blog is one of the only places I can post my shitty haiku. We love ya, bud. Don’t deprive us of yourself!
See, you’ve got love from my blog (and all three people who read it)!
JG,I’ve only been reading your blog for under a year. You have a knack for pointing out the absurditiies that exist today. I went back through your archives and have read most of your Katrina posts. Since Gulfport MS was affected very destructively by Katrina, I’ve been going to different sites and reading the prespectives of those who were not in New Orleans or on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
I found your posts to be the most common sensical in a sea of hysteria.
I hope you will continue to post.
Senryu! *rolls eyes*
This mall is so cold
I’m not wearing any pants!
Don’t go Jeff. Just don’t.
Dan; by the power invested in me by the pinkish aura of my delusions, I hereby rename you:
FOOL’S GOLDSTEIN!
Would you prefer to go by Fool or Goldy? Before you get upset I did decide to to eliminate Le Bitche de Jeffe because I’m sensitive that way.
Jeff, you have a loyal friend in Goldy, er, Dan, willing to post like like a hummingbird and take all of the abuse of “but your not Jeff.” Don’t worry about the other right wingers, they’ll come around when they see the consistantly unique quality of your work.
Goldy: I thought we had agreed on “Ignorant Slut” as Timmy’s new name?
Jeff, don’t give up. Please continue posting.
I mean, seriously—the reason all I ever did was riff off other people’s gags is because coming up with original stuff all on my own turned out to be a lot harder than Jeff makes it look.
Could I be Foolio? Then I’d sound like a gangsta rappa.
Only if you do the Electrocuted Chia Pet dreads, man.
Word to your mother.
maybe Pyritey? then you could wear an eye patch.
oh, and Jeff? please don’t give up. I’m so gonna need some hilarity in the future. and pie.
I think that you could make a lot of money off of the Jerry Gar-Chia, BJ.
Foolio: I actually ran out the door, across the highway, into a strip mall with a music store, found a snare drum and did a double rimshot.
Just for you, homey.
JEFF! JEFF! COME BACK! JERRY GAR – FREAKIN’ – CHIA FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD!
Jeff who?
Kidding, of course. If Goldstein quits, might as well plug the tubes full of glue.
Jeff if you quit…
I can’t riot cause I can’t go back to prison. One tutu surgically implanted in my buttocks in enough.
I can’t go on a hunger strike because then I’d die and I don’t wanna go see Jesus yet.
I can’t even lead a peaceful gathering without screaming “NARF” and “Nanooo!” so that’s out.
I don’t know what I’ll do if you quit Jeff…but it’ll probably rip the time space continuum apart.
Dan, as a way to make amends, here is a link for that old post of Jeff’s I mentioned.
Huh, and all this time I though Goldstein was the Walrus, or maybe Keyser Soze. speaking of whom…
Jeff, you do whatever it is you need to do and take care of yourself and your family before concerning yourself with this <cough, cough> eclectic bunch. Everything you have done here certainly has been appreciated.
In other words, we’ll wait for you. Just don’t expect us to be, you know, exclusive or anything like that.
Thanks, Carin. Pretty fly for a Joo-Boy.
For whatever it’s worth Jeff, I think this blog is one of the best out there and the blogosphere would lose a serious contributor to rational discourse if you walked away for good.
But you don’t owe either myself or anyone else anything. So if you decide to walk away permanently, no one can blame you. I along with apparently everyone else in this thread would be bummed out tremendously without your contributions.
This reminds me of when Stephen DenBeste walked away from USS Clueless (another serious contributor who the blogosphere is worse off without), primarily because the email over his political posts were causing him PHYSICAL problems. It’s unfortunate, because the sphere is less off without him posting regularly on political events.
And c’mon, who was better than ALLAHPUNDIT when it came to mocking Islamic terrorists? Again, the sphere is less off without him.
(Yes, I know about Chizumatic and Hotair, it ain’t the same.)
If this stuff, the internet for godsakes, is causing you or your family problems like it has, I can’t imagine why you would stick around to put up with it.
You don’t owe anyone anything, and frankly with all the entertainment and insight I’ve gleaned from this site, I feel as though I may owe YOU something.
So yeah, beers are on me for the Titans-Broncos game, is what I’m saying.
And seriously everyone, get a freaking grip ok. It’s the INTERNET not the real world, and too many people take the whole blogosphere WAYYYY TOOO Seriously.
Fascinating, Tman. How do you mean?
Disposable?
Hmm… Kind of a tough one that, really.
Well, of course your disposable. WE are all disposable. Stating that you are disposable provides no useful information. It’s kind of like saying you’re unique – it’s true, but doesn’t really convey useful information.
Are you good at what you do? Quite.
Is your posting useful? Helpful? Yes. Very much so.
Will an absence or hiatus be unfortunate in the extreme? Absolutely.
I mean, I really don’t know what to tell you, I, and many others, really like this site. In fact, it’s one of two blogs I actually read anymore – even when I don’t comment.
I personally find the concepts you’ve presented here to be useful, and have incorporated some of the thinking, as best I can, in to my own personal political philosophy. Moreover, I would be quite sorry to see you go.
I guess whatever is bugging you is, in fact, bugging you, and it’s something you’ll have to tackle in whatever way is appropriate. But don’t confuse that with a lack of skill or value in your writing and posting.
BRD
I must love you now, Dan, because you made my faux pas go away.
t/w: I need a proofreader.
Dan,
I’m as pro-CITIZEN JOURNALIST as the next guy, but there’s a point that we leave the “citizen journalism” behind and become borderline stalkers within the cult of the blogosphere.
It’s pretty pathetic.
Jeff’s ok, but personally, I think that the guestbloggers brought a much-needed change of perspective to this site. Some of them are so damned funny they make my sides hurt.
</irony>
Your latest stuff has been positively reinvigorated, as if in inverse proportion to the absolute lunacy that passes for discourse among the opposition. I mean this quite fervently: as things get progressively madder (among the mad progressives) I know that I appreciate the restoring balance your no-bullshit writing provides. Apparently I’m not alone.
You have that rare ability to condense and expose that madness and then counter it with a brisk, sane perspective.
That, and pie. And pissing off the insane. And of course, my fellow sycophants, this being the smallest of small ponds, blah, blah, blah.
So get back in here.
Seriously, the only blog I gave money to.
You too? Well, that and a bad sixties war flick DVD from before I realized Jeff’s “crap I want” thingie at Amazon is not entirely what Mrs. Goldstein intended. Stupid thing.
So let’s hear it people. You a giver?
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
As long as we don’t cross the border—and who can, with that damn balloon fence in the way?—we’re good, right?
Without a doubt, Mr. Goldstein and his readers deserve each other.
Allow me to second that emotion.
Guess that includes you too, huh.
Hang in there, Jeff.
TW: leave58? You’d better not!
Every time Jeff thinks of quitting, a kitten dies.
Not at my hands, though. Probably one of you sickos is responsible.
I blame society, man.
Without a doubt, Mr. Goldstein and his readers deserve each other.
Guess that includes you too, huh.
Posted by nawoods | permalink
on 01/23 at 11:39 AM
I am only here as an anthropologist. Primitive societies are fascinating to observe.
Oh, brave new anonymity, with such anthropologists in it.
Fer crying out loud leave the kittens out of this . That Collins guy is still lurking about and I’m still trying to recover from yesterdays horror .
As to the comment above about the internet not being the real world, I beg to differ. It is populated by real people, voicing real opinions, discussing (usually) real facts, and usually in a more open and honest fashion than they would likely do in meatspace.
I am personally grateful to the guest posters for being place-holders for Jeff until his return. Some I read, some I didn’t, glad Jeff’s back. Hope he stays.
And Jeff is dead wrong about his readers fleeing to other ‘Right Wing blogs’, I think. Most of those others are bloviating ijjits, or Bush cheerleaders, or worse, poor writers. I came here for the writing, and stayed for the thinking. And the funny. When he’s on, he’s on, and his writing inspires me to sharpen my own.
Stick around, Jewboy, you are equal parts of loved, and needed.
Our disinterested anthropologist is not truly anonymous. I mean, s/he posted here yesterday under a different name and email address.
See that? The natives learned how to use tools, you arrogant colonialist! How you like those coconuts?
Yeah, and I can curse you in Leftese.
The Dryad is immortal. I made her so.
Posted by E.P. | permalink
on 01/22 at 11:21 PM
Even though you appear to have missed it, perhaps Mr. Collins got the joke. Of course, to appreciate it, some familiarity with 20th century poetry in English would be helpful.
Bane,
The only difference is that in the real world when you talk to someone face to face you can’t be anonymous, like you can on the internet.
For instance, if you threatened me in a comment on a blog, anonymously, I have no recourse (other than to play along in the comments of course).
You do that in real life, and you are much likely to have to deal with the real consequences of your actions, whatever those may be.
So? Everybody made her.
The only difference is that in the real world when you talk to someone face to face you can’t be anonymous, like you can on the internet.
Posted by Tman | permalink
on 01/23 at 12:32 PM
I bought a package of cigarettes this morning. Paid cash. I’m betting the clerk still doesn’t known my name.
Been mostly lurking literally for years and I have to say I’d miss JG a bunch if he went away. Whenever I install a new browser or RSS reader the first entry is PW (heck I’ve installed a couple of virtual machines that have PW as the only RSS feed).
You talking about the Pound reference? Yeah, I got it—though during my orals I was an Elliot and Yeats guy. I just wanted to point out that you’re posting under various guises, so your anonymity is, let’s say, fluid.
Howsabout you just pick a name and stick with it.
So? Everybody made her.
Posted by Dan Collins | permalink
on 01/23 at 12:36 PM
I disagree. Miss Doolittle was nothing more than another mad creation from il miglior fabbro; (with a minor and profoundly negative assist from the feckless Richard Aldington and, of course, Bryher, that other notorious ‘invert.’
Now if you’ll excuse me, I still have a workout to finish, a kid to feed, and beetroot on line two, above.
I have picked one. “Anonymous” seems every bit as meaningful as “Jeff Goldstein” or “Dan Collins” or “Ace” or “Retardo Montalban,” to cite but a few examples.
And lucky for you it was “orals.” Might have been embarrassing to add an extra L to the Possum’s surname. (You did mean T.S. Eliot, didn’t you?)
anon,
No, he probably doesn’t know your name. But he knows what you look like, and could probably pick you out of a crowd.
I don’t think “anonymous” means what you think it means, Tman.
Besides, eyewitness identification is highly unreliable.
Oh my! Did I put an extra “l” in Eliot? Why, that must mean I’ve nothing worthwhile to say! My blunder has disqualified me from polite company!
But you’re right: I likely would have handed in, say, a written exam or a long paper without proofreading it first. Because those things are exactly the same in kind as replying to several people simultaneously in the comments field of a blog.
Still, if it makes you feel good about yourself, I’ll proclaim you to be the winner of the first annual Tuesday afternoon blog comments spelling bee. Fair enough?
Quick, someone—fetch me one of them ribbons. Before the genius feels unappreciated for his hard work of editing my dashed-off comments for spelling errors.
And just to make your work easier in the future, here, try these: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz;:.,”[]\{}–_
Use those as you see fit.
I don’t get where or why you’re going, Tman. You sound a little aggressive. I don’t say anything here that I wouldn’t say to someone’s face. I’ve kicked plenty of ass that I never knew the name attached to it. I used to be a bouncer.
And as I’ve said on my blog many times, almost all of my family knows who Bane is, and most read. So do at least twenty other non-family members. I stay anonymous to keep down those 3am threatening phone calls from nuts and cowards.
Anon, your pretense makes for a less than pleasant olfactory experience. Just sayin’.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I still have a workout to finish, a kid to feed, and beetroot on line two, above.
Posted by Jeff Goldstein | permalink
on 01/23 at 12:47 PM
And don’t forget, Beowulf, you mnust dispatch Grendel’s dam by sundown, and make the internet(s) safe once again for drunks, idiots, and children.
As are superiority complexes based, as they are, on thin air. At least as transparent as.
Should you ever elect to abruptly abandon being consistently insubstantial, I’m reasonably confident there’s not a single topic that wouldn’t get you dismembered around here. This being a primitive society.
So. Here’s your opportunity.
Superiority is, indeed, a complex topic.
Thank you for the unintended (perhaps uncnscious) irony of displaying your belief in your own sense of superiority.
Bane,
I don’t think I’m being too aggressive in stating that SOME people take the blogosphere a bit too seriously. I think that’s a fair statement.
I also think that people who post “anonymously” are doing so because they enjoy hiding behind a mask and picking at other people. They are petty and weak, and overall they are cowards.
And again, when you kick someones ass, whether you know their name or not, they sure as hell would remember you. You then become “that bouncer at that bar that kciked my ass” and are thusly no longer anonymous.
And thank you for being a pretentious douchebag! It takes many, many colors to make a rainbow.
Trolls are the reason for the “net” to exist. Well, actually, maybe they are a close second to the most famous short bus guy. Could I be referring to Al Gore? Maybe…
What is it with these effin’ lit majors dropping in, dropping snarky lit references, and dropping trou?
Let’s think about this. Does the word begin with a capital A?
And you deserve the title of “Chicken Chaser”.
Anonymous? How creative of you!
Well, apparently, “Lost Dog” was already taken … to the pound where (after a decent interval) it was ‘put down’ as painlessly as possible.
Next … ?
anon,
Next? Next what? Man are you pitiful.
Next to nothing by the looks of it around here.
Heh. I’d like to play along, but I don’t understand why we would want to make the internet safe for drunks. I mean children and idiots I get, but drunks?
Nope, just not working for me.
“mnust?” “uncnscious”?
I want my ribbon back.
And I’d never dispatch Grendel—not after John Gardner made me so sympathetic toward him.
His Mom, on the other hand…yeah, I’d beat her with a club or a heavy mead goblet if it meant I could keep pretentious tools like you from gliding in here on the slick oozings of their own self-directed unctuousness.
Back already? And I’d heard that “time passes slowly … in the mountains.”
Goldstein-addict here. The guest bloggers, as excellent as they were, pale mightily in comparison to the master. This should not be taken as an insult, either; Jeff’s writing is just way, way beyond anything else you can find on the popular internet.
Protein Wisdom enriches my undereducated mind. Thank you, Jeff.
“[miscellaneous twitterings plus a generous helping of snark and ego]”
– anonymous
DosTranslation: LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Crazy thing about showing off one’s erudition anonymously in a comment thread is, none of us knows whom to credit for being so much smarter than everybody else.
Jeff – what’s going on here? there is a posting prfoblem.
But to the meat –
Anon – Good job! Thank you for airing your post 1970 education for all to see. Fuck the facts, how do we feel about anything?
Here’s the deal. As far as I can see, you are just another Marxist who doesn’t know that s/he is a Marxist. You know what? Let’s destrtoy the engine that drives our car. People that refuse to do anything helpful should get a good portion of the money that the rest of us bust our ass for, don’t you think?
Just the fact that you post as “Anonymous” marks you as a moron.
If your ridiculous political ravings get you laid, more power to you. If they don’t, save us all some trouble and turn on the gas and stick your head in the oven. I promise that it will not hurt…
Like I said, it’s been a horrific day. Usually, I can just laugh at idiots…
I don’t post much here, but I love the site.
I love reading Jeff’s posts and missed him in his absence.
There are so many sources of insane chatter out there, like this for example….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomokev/53489624/
An oasis of sanity is what Protein Wisdom offers.
You must be confusing me with some other anonymous soul. I have written nothing here today having anything to do with politics.
Other than “Please, oh please, Mr. G, don’t stop blogging or Western Civilization is lost,” I can’t say I have seen much of anything political on this here ‘thread.’