?!?!?!

That’s like saying you heard good things about the Beatles but really like Paul Mccartney’s Wings!!!! ARGH!!!

carry on

Ang said,

People, please tell me you can see a difference between singular negative comments about very public figures being said in an audience that will likely never reach them and repeated, detailed negative comments directed at a minor to their parent.

…at a minor to their parent…

AT a minor TO their parent….

BACK and to the LEFT….

BACK and to the LEFT….

I got my Kennedys confused again.  Bobby, Ted; what’s the difference?

Hey, who do you think penned the eternal classic “Goo Goo Muck�?!?

“Oh when the sun goes down and the moon comes up
I turn into a teenage . . . goo goo muck�

I rest my case.

You know, the one that goes, “These two things aren’t exactly alike in every detail, so that means they’re completely incomparable”

Didn’t think I’d see that one again any time soon, I have to admit.

Sure there is a difference. Which one makes me madder? Someone threatening my kid — even if it is clearly trolling. Which one am I more afraid of as a member of society? That would be the frothing pundits with big audiences (Misha’s only “big” in comparison to, say, Frisch; Coulter’s big in any sense) who normalize and popularize murder rhetoric about unpopular figures with a thin scrim of alleged hyperbole.

Tell us, Ang, which do you think we are more likely to read about some day: (a) a guy who attacks a toddler and who, it turns out, has read every one of Frisch’s blog posts eagerly, or (b) a guy who has shot a judge and who has, it turns out, read every one of Coulter’s books eagerly?

It’s fun to watch the thin skinned Patty screaming about how he hates “utter dishonesty”. Talk about self loathing..

“Those clowns in the court should be shot!”

is a far cry from

“Hey there neighbor Joe, I hope someone hurts your child, REALLY hurts them, where is little Billy anyhow?”

Grasping at very loose similarities does not make your point any stronger, it just makes the rest of us shake our heads in dissapointment.

Just thought you all would like to be reminded of this comment left at his site last month:

You can’t treat everybody the same, some folks simply don’t deserve it. There are some people who simply need a 55 gallon drum of ass-whoopin’; with a side order of boot to the head. I know what J. R. R. Tolkien said about those who deserve death and those who deserve laugh, but sometimes you just gotta remove some jerk from the gene pool.

Would be nice if sweetness and light could cure everything, but it don’t. You have to be ready to defend yourself, and that means being ready to hurt people.

Thanks for the name check at this post.

Yes, and apparently saying that judges should be hung or that Timoty McVeigh should have blown up the NY Times building don’t count as “crazy ravings” in Patterico’s book. What a mensch.

At least the best Misfits songs are songs that they, you know, actually wrote themselves.

Funny, I thought Murphy’s Law was the Korn of their generation.

Anyway, thank god I read the thread. I kept going: Misfits + Bricks. Misbricks. Danzig + Wall. I felt real dumb.

rj said,
July 13, 2006 at 18:16
Also, that is no “mohawk,� but rather a devil lock (as the Misfits make quite clear in one of their songs).

I would like to apologize for being such a huge cobag. I was raised in the suburbs of DC and did not listen to the Misfits. I am also colobrlind and could not tell that the wall is green. Thirdly, the tags don’t seem to show up as alt-text in my Firefox browser with unlimited alt-text displaying.

Once again, I am so sorry I am huge cobag and not an old school punker who can see color. I’ll just go back to lurking.

I hope you all don’t also think I am a giant moa or some other form of ratite.

By the way, IMHO, Misfits were the Korn of their generation and not fit to carry the battered guitar cases of the Cramps. Poison Ivy & Lux Interior 4EVA!!