Comments on: I Just Love It When Private Correspondence Goes Public

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:09:15 +0000

Welcome back, Marq. After chiming it at number 70 at the other thread, and destroying a perfectly good number, I had a feeling you’d show up here next to plant your seeds of iniquity.

By: Marq

Marq — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:46:49 +0000

Are you implying that I’m a bottom, Doc? Google it, if it’s an unfamiliar term. Tsk, tsk, talkin’ dirty. Unless you were implying that I’d… um, Dubya’d… um…
[hkkktphth]
………………………’scuse me a minute–gotta puke!

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:13:13 +0000

There is if you turn it upside down!

By: Marq

Marq — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:10:57 +0000

There’s no Dubya in “Marq,” Doc, so Wrong again!

By: Dr. BLT, Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, Song Blogger — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:13:18 +0000

OK, Marq, so I guess that makes you the sponsor.

By: Thrown for a Loop

Thrown for a Loop — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:45:20 +0000

Suckers

Sadly, No links to an article about some emails fromer DeLay aide Michael Sanlon that lays out the Rove/Nixon/Atwater Southern Strategy in a way that would get a liberal yelled at on “Meet the Press.” For background, Scanlon’s goal is…

By: Marq

Marq — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:18:43 +0000

“Today’s Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter ‘W.’ ‘W.’ “Wrong.’ ‘‘Wrrrooonnnngg!’ ‘W!’”

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:42:26 +0000

OK, Dan, that may be the case, but if you ask me there is still far too much road rage on this “Sesame Street.”

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:47:14 +0000

Doc, if you want to see “virulent,” go visit Little Green Footfetishes and read their comments section. Of course, Chazmo requires registration before posting, so the self-selected wingnuts over there don’t usually have many opposing viewpoints to jump on… but they are virulent nonetheless. Vitriolic, vituperative, vindictive… all those great “V” words.

This place is a Sesame Street forum by comparison.

By: Dr. BLT, Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, Song Blogger — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:32:49 +0000

Dan, I was waiting to find out when “someone” would do their homework on the Amish culture. You are absolutely correct, shunning is a far more passive activity than the virulent, aggressive “Dogpiling” that goes on at this site. Heretofore I was allowed to get by with that less-than-adequate term, but it looks like you’ve now forced me to give it up.

Random Guy, you’ve given me a bitter pill to swallow, but it appears to be reality-based, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to swallow it. Sesame Street, here I come! Oh no, I forgot about the cookie monster!!!

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:46:29 +0000

Also, Doc BLT, as I understand it, shunning involves not having anything to do with the shunned person — not speaking or having any interaction (or even contact) with him/her. Given that people here respond to your posts with some regularity, I’d hardly say that shunning happens here. Dogpiling, maybe, but not shunning.

By: Random Guy

Random Guy — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:46:09 +0000

“Most trolls have been scared off by the Amishesque shunning that goes on at this site. Very few of us are able to weather the storm.”…

There you go again, BLT, with the shunning remarks. I’m tired of dressing my point up, so I’ll just spell it out.

Welcome to the internet. It’s a nasty place sometimes. I’m surprised you haven’t gotten used to it by now, but give it time, and you’ll come to realise that debate on an unmoderated forum doesn’t always reach the pinnacle of civility you seem to be striving for.

In fact, this site is far more civilized than most corners of the internet, and if you can’t get used to it, perhaps you can move on to another forum, perhaps on a sesame street fansite. You’d be hard-pressed to find stuff to be offended about there.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:30:08 +0000

Dan, I have to give you credit, “judeophobia” is more creative than my informal “diagnostic” label of “homophobia phobia” (pertaining to those who try way to hard to be politically correct as it pertains to their views on homosexuality for fear of being called “homophobic.” I’m not sure I want to join you in putting that label on Rowan however, and further alienate Rowan from myself. Despite the apparent fact that Rowan and I seem to have disparate world views, Rowan appears to be the closest thing to a “troll mate” that I have come across of late. Most trolls have been scared off by the Amishesque shunning that goes on at this site. Very few of us are able to weather the storm.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:13:01 +0000

I read the article, “dood.”

Here’s the thing, Rowan. Indicting Libby is not antisemitic. Claiming that the actions that took us to war in Iraq are the result of a shadowy global Jewish conspiracy — that’s antisemitic. Not to mention paranoid.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 02:04:00 +0000

read the article, dood

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:36:08 +0000

Rowan, I have no idea who Justin Raimondo is. He may be gay, he may be a libertarian, he may even be a crypto-Nazi, but I’ve never heard of him before, so I can’t tell. But I’m trying to figure out your purpose in giving us the link. What’s your point? That it’s not antisemitic to claim that the war in Iraq was engineered by The Jews for the benefit of The Jews? I beg to differ. Your judeophobia is showing. (Doc BLT, I may in fact be making a diagnosis here. Feel free to chime in.)

Seriously, dude, Jews make up less than 2% of the population of the U.S. Less than a quarter percent of the population of the world. There is no worldwide — or even nationwide — Jewish conspiracy to control your thoughts and actions. Your time would be better spent worrying about real things. Like the space aliens hiding under your bed.

By: Marq

Marq — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 17:34:24 +0000

I prefer to expose myself to points of view on all sides before forming opinions.

[Sorry to jump on this so late!] Actually, doc, that's something I can more-or-less agree with. But... If I may play devil's advocate for a moment, and throw in some pop-culture references to render the entire thing as shallow as possible... wasn't that exactly the argument that Emperor Palpatine made to Anakin Skywalker while he was seducing him over to the Dark side of the Force in "Revenge of the Sith"? Not the role model I think we should actively emulate, somehow. Though, if I could cast purple lightning from my fingertips, well, that could be fun....

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:50:38 +0000

Since the subject of what I suppose I can start calling "antisemite-baiting" has come up, I shall again pluf this excellent column by Justin Raimondo, who is presumably (at least by Dan's logic) a gay libertarian crypto-nazi: AntiWar

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:41:21 +0000

So Evangelicals are stupid if they believe what they’re told, and stupid squared if they believe that the high proportion of Jews doing the telling (many supposedly converts to xianity of some strange sort) is anything other than coincidental. In order NOT to be stupid, they have to believe that all these jewish, christian, muslim, etc., overtones are meaningless and that the real explanation is to do with the greed of corporations – but preferably they should not become marxists at this point. Correct so far?

By: flea

flea — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:34:45 +0000

Thanks, Jillian – I’ll add that title to my endless “Books to Get” list. Someday they’ll find me buried under a collapsed stack of unread books, and serves me right.