Comments on: Wingnut Welfare And The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

By: Xecky Gilchrist

Xecky Gilchrist — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:11:47 +0000

Do they think that this makes them sound smart? Credible?

I guess. Maybe they just think it makes them sound like the Marvel Comics version of Thor.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:11:35 +0000

What’s with “passing strange”
I wondered about that. Perhaps he had The Sisters of Mercy singing ‘Nine While Nine” on his ipod.

By: Mike's Dumbmerica

Mike's Dumbmerica — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:02:45 +0000

Have you ever noticed that, whenever wingnuts think they have some telling point to make, they get all over pseudo-Shakespeare? What’s with “passing strange” and “methinks?” Do they think that this makes them sound smart? Credible?

By: MzNickyLitella

MzNickyLitella — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:43:34 +0000

Djur: Oh. Well, that’s different then, isn’t it? Never mind. And thank you!

By: RUGGED IN MONTANA

RUGGED IN MONTANA — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:36:13 +0000

Damn it!! That shoelace could’ve been saved!! Is life so cheap to you people that you throw it away with so little emotion, so little attachment? Oh, the shoe-manity!

By: Djur

Djur — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:29:37 +0000

MzNicky — the *GINGRICH* post was retitled “Groundhog Day.” Presumably that is what you saw.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:18:46 +0000

Oh. Oh, I see. There never WAS a “Groundhog Day” post. It’s all my imagination. Is that the way we’re going to play this game? Okay, FINE. If that’s the way you want it.

By: Another Kiwi

Another Kiwi — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:28:41 +0000

If you lived in Pureheart New Zealand you can look at Sadly No whenever you want between the hours of 8 and 8.30 am and again 11 – 11.30pm. But since you live in Big ChicagoMuslimland, no Sadly No for you.
This is unfortunate but wholly deserved since the interwebs are not for the likes of you baby eating folks.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:28:27 +0000

Because I tend to follow RB’s recomendations without question, I have signed the death warrant for the shoelace in question.

He was executed by firing squad just moments ago.

A question does arise at this point, however.

Um. Was I supposed to take off my shoe first?

[OUCH]…

mikey

By: Djur

Djur — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:22:40 +0000

If / is Groundhogg’d and /?orz is not, that indicates an upstream caching issue. Somewhere between your machine and Sadly, there’s a caching proxy. My suspicion is that in their endless quest to keep the site scraping by, someone twiddled with the Expires headers.

The fact that people are noticing this so much on mobile devices helps this hypothesis, since most mobile Internet providers have fairly aggressive caching proxies.

I might be able to help. For now, folks, sticking ?blabhlah or whatever at the end of the Sadly homepage URL should work. Just change your bookmarks.

I need to collect some more data to be sure. For my next trick, I need someone who’s noticing the stale content in Firefox.

1. Download the livehttpheaders addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Go to Tools -> Live HTTP Headers.
4. Choose the ‘Config’ tab, check “Filter URLs with regexp”, and enter “/$” in the text box next to it.
5. Go back to the Headers tab and check “Capture.”
6. Visit http://www.sadlyno.com.
7. Uncheck ‘Capture’ in the Live HTTP Headers box, click “Save All”, and save the file as “sadlyno-headers.txt”
8. Email that file to mboeh at desperance dot net or post it here. No worries, it doesn’t contain any private or identifying info.

By the way, if anyone at S,N needs help figuring this out, I’m willing to pitch in.

By: cleek

cleek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:15:20 +0000

also, Rahm spoke with Blajo about this

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/report_rahm_and_blago_talked_a.php

By: Argh!

Argh! — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:12:10 +0000

I keep getting the problem regardless of djur’s url. In fact, it directed me to the ‘grich.

By: cleek

cleek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:10:03 +0000

oh, SN? screw your stupid spam filter.

By: cleek

cleek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:09:25 +0000

Andy. your job.let me show you how to do it.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:05:47 +0000

But my shoelace is broken, can anyone help with that?

I recommend that the shoelace be executed.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:03:26 +0000

Sadly No works fine for me.

But my shoelace is broken, can anyone help with that?

mikey

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:57:40 +0000

Obama can only fix the internets when he is president and not before. Duh.

By: noen

noen — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:52:35 +0000

I blame Obama. He has cast his magic witchcraftery witchy poo spells on teh internets. The reality is that today is December 7th! It will always be Dec. 7th. You are under Obama’s spell that makes you believe it’s Fri. Dec. 12th. Your PC is connected to the internet right? All your clocks are under Obama’s witchy control.

Go back to sleep sheeple.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0000

jim, I have IE and I haven’t had a bit of trouble this week. I usually don’t have any trouble with WordPress, either, just a few laggard comments now and then. I must be holding my mouth right or something. ;-)

Yeah, I can’t even imagine K-Lo caring about the idiocy of one of her writers. Of course, if she could use it as a bludgeon to acquire cheesecake, that might be a whole ‘nother thing.

By: celticgirl

celticgirl — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:38:28 +0000

Hey, this is weird. Now when I go to the home page it’s fixed – No more Groundhog Day. How did u do that Djur? Or iz it becuz I can haz comment?