But, aunt bea, this was not political discussion. That was my point. The political got derailed by the vituperative.

Most probably because, as K. Ron said: The visitors sure don’t want to talk about HTML Mencken’s post.

I can’t really agree, Gentlewoman. This whole episode illuminates some important dynamics of political discussion on blogs. You think we should have discussed beer or Atlas Pam photoshops?

No, Linus. I think we should have discussed HTML’s post, which he obviously researched seriously, and in which he made some interesting comparisons. But that didn’t really happen, did it?

I agree with marc page, (although its probably too late) do NOT talk on your own phone with the psycho. he may say he won’t use it, he may even believe he won’t use it, but he will end up using it.

Tried too hard not to allude to some kind of vehicular accident, is what I was did there.

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The visitors sure don’t want to talk about HTML Mencken’s post.

Criticizing someone for being on medication implies there’s something wrong with being on medication; criticizing him for being a stay-at-home parent implies there something wrong with being a stay-at-home parent.

I doubt that anyone is “criticizing him” for any of that; we/they are using it to mock and bait him. It’s so hard to resist. Think about it: How big an asshole does one have to be to make a bunch of flaming liberals consider you an irredeemable — almost subhuman — creep? It’s obvious — as big an asshole as Jeff Goldstein.

It’s really too bad, as I think the original post brought out some important points which were well worth discussing. Too bad so few of us discussed them.

You know, I don’t think any of us is going to feel really happy about having participated in this disaster.

Except the sociopaths. You know who you are.

The day HTML posted the photo of Tacitus w/light saber was one of the first times I visited Sadly, No! There was absolutely no contextual clue in the photo that it was taken at a wedding. The photo was very tightly cropped. Ergo, Tacitus’ claim of having a personal wedding violated here at SN is a canard and an obviously false and melodramatic ploy for sympathy.

And it is strange that someone MANLY enough to blithely discuss the merits of slaughtering, torturing and imprisoning innocent human beings is putting themselves out as a portrait of wounded innocence due to a 100-120 pixel photo. Oh the hurt, the injustice, the indecency, the agony, the unfairness of it all. It’s the type of secret scarring only Hitler could understand.

The Leader (from Sandanista)

Atom secrets, secret leaflet
Have the boys found the leak yet?
The molehill sets the wheel in motion
His downfall picks up locomotion

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

The leader’s wife takes a government car
In the dark to meet her minister
But the leader never leaves his door ajar
As he swings his whip from the Boer War war

He wore a leather mask for his dinner guests
Totally nude and with deep respect
Proposed a toast to the votes he gets
The feeling of power and the thought of sex!

Now the girl let the fat man touch her
Vodka fumes and the feel of a vulture
The driver waited in the embassy car
The fat man’s trap was set for capture
So the girl let the thin man touch her
Mixing questions, drunken laughter
The ministry car was waiting there
A minister knows his own affair

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

Sifu Tweety pretty much nailed it there. It is not attractive to make fun of Jeff for being a stay-at-home dad and for taking anti-anxiety medication. But I understand why people do it, given his endless posturing on his blog as a Steely-Eyed Warrior against Islam and the Existential Threat it poses to Our Civilization.