I gotta admit I wasn’t familiar with him. Since reading several heartfelt notices I have begun to plow through his blogging legacy. So far, so good! A helluva guy.

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CRA, I would recommend spending a weekend with the dude. I plan on attempting to archive the entirety of his body of work in case something might happen to it. He was as good as any that hewed a phrase. And if I might take this moment to say, you ain’t so bad in that regard yourself.

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We need the good folks to stay alive. Very sorry to hear this news.

It was always a treat when he left a comment at Roy’s place. Long form or short, he was master of the written word.

Riley gone? Th’ fuck?

sad

I know. I always figured that we would have an opportunity to meet some day and shoot the breeze during a bike ride and afterwards over a couple of beers, given that he lived only an hour and a half north of me.

I am gonna try to get to nashVegas in the next year or two to meet you in meatspace, dude, and those cats of yours. We have been acquainted for far too long…
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Long form or short, he was master of the written word.

Hear, hear!
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We have been acquainted for far too long…

Let’s do this!
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Aww thanks, Provider.

I definitely need something like the Doghouse Riley legacy right now. Its good and seems very concentrated because I haven’t read any of it yet. (Unless I read comments and didn’t know.) So yeah, I will really get into it.

We have been acquainted for far too long…

Let’s do this!

Do it, I’ve had a really good time hanging out in meatspace with any of the sadlynaughts that have swung by this way.

i’ve heard the name doghouse riley, but don’t recall reading his work…what little i just checked out from une’s link leads me to believe that he could become addicting…and someone to learn from…

also, too…i very well may be in chicago for a few days in september…who’s close by?

who’s close by?

imma ’bout 4 hours away and given enough warning, might be able to pull something off. It’d be cool if we could have a general commie blog meet-up up there, during your visit…Would love to hang with you.
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BTW, Feel free to go off-topic early and often. It was a necessary cathartic to say some small piece about the dearly departed. I would recommend, when you have run out of anything clever to read, or witty to say, that you work your way through the archives over at Doghouses joint.

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i very well may be in chicago for a few days in september

My family lives in Chicago. Let me know when you’ll be there.

Yes, he was quite the writer, wasn’t he?

Doghouse, we’ll miss you… like Molly Ivins and Steig Larsson, why do so many great voices of the left have to leave us too soon?

I’m fairly sure I’ve read some of his comments at different blogs over the years… did he comment here?

Or perhaps I saw his stuff at “Rising Hegemon”, or the late lamented “World O Crap”— anybody know?

i very well may be in chicago for a few days in september

zrm is in Milwaukee, but the promise of beer could probably lure him to Chicago. My friend Von is a Chicago gal, and she is a lot of fun. I’ll try to get you in contact with her.

My friend Von is a Chicago gal, and she is a lot of fun. I’ll try to get you in contact with her.

omg…i’ve already cyber-stalked von in that one night i stayed up until some ridiculous hour reading her ENTIRE blog…she sounds like a hoot!

zrm is in Milwaukee, but the promise of beer could probably lure him to Chicago

hmmm…hubbkf is likely expecting me to come back from this thing with all my body parts still attached to me…

omg…i’ve already cyber-stalked von in that one night i stayed up until some ridiculous hour reading her ENTIRE blog…she sounds like a hoot!

I’ll try to put her in touch with you. I get the feeling you two would get along famously.

hmmm…hubbkf is likely expecting me to come back from this thing with all my body parts still attached to me…

All he wants to do is eat your brain.

All he wants to do is eat your brain.

oh! that would be alright…i don’t use it much anyway…

I’ll try to put her in touch with you. I get the feeling you two would get along famously.

that would be awesome…i have a feeling we would also, too…

Hey, I’m an enabler! paleo’s got your e-mail, right? I’ll make sure we get in touch.

yep he does…he’s got my work one…don’t you have mine from the witty and insightful comments i make at your place?

yep he does…he’s got my work one…don’t you have mine from the witty and insightful comments i make at your place?

I don’t stalk my commenters! Not even the SEXXAY ones.

Here at work I noticed I have a cardboard box on my desk, on which I scrawled the word “WEED” in big letters with a sharpie. It’s not full of weed, though, just papers that need to be sorted. Part of me hopes there’s been confusion.

I don’t stalk my commenters! Not even the SEXXAY ones.

well i’ve heard that for a big bad bald bastard you are a gentleman…

My family lives in Chicago. Let me know when you’ll be there.

looks like it will be around the 23-27 of september…

*pours out mythopoetic 40*

well i’ve heard that for a big bad bald bastard you are a gentleman…

Indeed. Those ladies were gorgeous and their feet remained unmolested.

I’m going to need to go to Chicago soon to visit myidiotfather as soon as his condition improves a bit.

You see, my father, henceforth to be referred to as myidiotfather, has been in the hospital for over a week now.

It seems he had appendicitis, and for 4 days refused to let anyone take him to get medical attention. Finally when he started vomiting blood my mother got him to agree to go to the emergency room.

Of course by this time his appendix had burst and sepsis had set in. He spent several days in the ICU and early last week I’d about written him off. I was about to make “the call” to my chief pilot to get removed from my trip but Mom didn’t want me to come home.

He’s doing a lot better now and they moved him out of ICU the other day.

I’m not sure what to say to him except “If you’re trying to off yourself there are easier ways to go about it.”

ahhhhh…parents…glad to hear he’s doing better…one of my nieces has been complaining of intense stomach pains and had been in and out of the er and clinic a few times…only to be sent home each time without any answer…she’s in surgery right now getting her appendix removed…hope she’s okay…she just had a baby six weeks ago…

Indeed. Those ladies were gorgeous and their feet remained unmolested.

good…i am extreeeeeemely ticklish…

good…i am extreeeeeemely ticklish…

You just handed him a torture manual…

Cripes, Major, I assume your father is over 40—how do you get appendicitis at his age? When I turned 40, I told myself: “At least that’s one thing I don’t have to worry about any more.”

I know you can’t get it the usual way, because that blind entrance to the former third gut closes off, so raspberry seeds and whatnot can’t get trapped in there. I suppose if you had peritonitis and it spread into the appendix, where antibiotics don’t really do much good—but in that case they usually don’t call it “appendicitis” as if that’s where it started.

Sorry for blithering, I’m just confused.

Hey, I’m an enabler! paleo’s got your e-mail, right? I’ll make sure we get in touch.

BBBB, I lost your address because fyYahoo (and your little commenters too!), but hit me at simplelittleelectrician@yahoo and I will facilitate, plus I am ticked at myself for not yet arranging to meet bbkf (sorry dear!) and feel like I must do something useful…

I know you can’t get it the usual way, because that blind entrance to the former third gut closes off, so raspberry seeds and whatnot can’t get trapped in there.

I prevent that by never eating fruit un-fermented.

I prevent that by never eating fruit un-fermented.

my motto is: safety first!

Cripes, Major, I assume your father is over 40—how do you get appendicitis at his age?

I’m not sure. He’s 74 and otherwise in pretty good shape.

He had a stroke 2 years ago that didn’t even phase him. It was probably rattling around inside his head trying to find his brain and couldn’t.

I just want to say “Hey, we get it, you’re tough. Now stop trying to prove it.”

well, the niece is out of surgery…appendix had ruptured but luckily no infection…

New Links Emerge in the IRS Scandal

huh…i would have thought the comments in teh wsj would be a little more…intelligent? but sadly, no…could just as well be reading thec comments from american stinker or the worlds shittiest website…except the spelling is a little better…

Since Major’s dad’s abdominal issues seem to have brought this thread to a halt allow me to digress. There’s a lot of talk of mangos here and it’s good to remember that there is such a thing as a delicious real world mango that has nothing to do with wingnut comment threads and now is the peak season for Florida mangos, the only decent examples of that fruit north of the Rio Grande. The most common excellent mango in Florida is the Kent (pronounced keent) and it is ugly and splotched enough that it will never enter the general market but it is a very good mango.

In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec where Oaxaca meets Chiapas there are mango orchards that go on for kilometers. If you’re there at the right time (like now) there are the most magnificent mangos in the western hemisphere. If not then organic Kents are pretty good. After some ordinary market haggling I came home with two bags of different sized mangos and went on a mango frenzy yesterday, whizzing a few up for juice and cooking most of the rest for chutney. Mangos should be had when they are dead ripe, not those awful Tommy Atkins variety in the store that will never be good no matter what you do to them, they are a truly seasonal fruit thus excusing them from the 24/7/365 shelf filling logic of modern Amurika.

OK, we now return you to missing Doghouse. Hearing David effing Brooks on the radio this afternoon and knowing DR was gone hurt in a new way.

huh…i would have thought the comments in teh wsj would be a little more…intelligent? but sadly, no…could just as well be reading thec comments from american stinker or the worlds shittiest website…except the spelling is a little better…

This Michael Shipley comment isn’t bad:

“Despite months of ceaseless investigation at great expense to the taxpayer there is still no credible (actionable) evidence that the Administration had any direct involvement in the activities of the Cincinnati IRS office. None. Moreover, there is evidence that liberal groups were also targeted.

Lost in all these childish attempts to pin something on the Administration is the plain fact that had Congress done their job and stipulated the conditions for denial of tax exclusion, IRS bureaucrats would not have had to improvise policies. But Congress didn’t want to “offend” potential donors so they punted to the IRS.

But this is the reality and posters here regard reality as an impediment to their real business: Bashing a President, who’s very presence in office offends their sense of cultural probity.”

That does cover it.

Moreover, there is evidence that liberal groups were also targeted.

Bingo. Not only that but the whole thing started because Issa requested a review of IRS probes into conservative groups, then jumped up and down and yelled when they were found. It was only later that the information came out that liberal groups were also reviewed.

Color me shocked that Issa didn’t then shut up and go away.

And before anyone accuses me of feeding the trolls, this will be my only comment on this subject.

Seems like Issa should investigate which conservative and/or liberal groups actually abused the shit out of those 501c exemptions…

Hello?

It’s easy to see why some IRS folks made a list of politically-charged terms the presence of which would merit special scrutiny of an application for 501(c) status. The agency is understaffed, and yet was tasked with interpreting shoddy legislation. In the meantime a whole lot of new orgs were applying: esp. the primarily-political Tea Party with its many little cells, mostly lacking nonprofit experience, legal counsel, and brains. Their was no parallel on the left, no chance at a 50/50 ratio.

In a sense the IRS did what it always does. They don’t treat all tax returns equally — not by a long shot. Rather, they try to get the best bangs for their scant investigative bucks. Call it profiling. Compare it to the selectivity of prosecutors … The right doesn’t really want all returns or applications for 501(c) status to receive equal scrutiny. That would cost an awful lot of money, but nonetheless might end up raising revenue. An IRS capable of treating these applications equally might be able to investigate all sorts of tax evasion.

But what would equal treatment even mean? The only returns or applications that deserve special scrutiny are those that have certain characteristics. Shit, if there was a contest to quickly nail as many legit rejections as possible, only a fool would ignore politically-charged terms like “Tea Party” and “Progressive.” You wanna lose the contest, sit around staring at the application sent in by the Texas Textile Museum. Why didn’t they (I made em up) get a scary questionnaire?

I think the only top-down directive was something along the lines of “give practically everyone who applies an exemption, regardless of their leanings or questionable activities. Just weed out the obvious ringers. Give the borderline applicants a chance to clarify, and rubber-stamp most of them that do.” You could argue that as a sensible, non-partisan response to being forced to interpret and under-enforce shitty, ambiguous rules.

I (am) was? late to the internet political commentary. My gateway drug was Jane at FDL and the Libby trial. I am so sorry that I missed Doghouse. But not nearly as much as I am sorry that I missed Steve Gilliard. So Doghouse, may the internet forces be with you. Also – he was only 8 years older than me. REALLY?

I just don’t know how to respond.

Maybe a picture of Wanda will help.
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I just noticed the list of labels (you may know them as tags) along the right side of Doghouse’s blog … Just those are better than most folks can do. No offense to most folks, but I suspect your tags are shit like “LGBT” and “G.W. Bush” and stuff. Now I admit I’m not sure which label to click to see what he wrote on those, but still. His classification system looks pretty fuckin cool.

Video game forums are a wonder to behold. Re: Diablo 3:

[Subject] The gold I have collected means nothing!
[Body] I’ve have collected 111 million gold since release I can now buy that amount for less than 2.50 dollars YAY!

I dunno whether to laugh or cry … As you folks may have heard, there’s real money being exchanged for pixels [and more to the point, time] these days. But as you might guess, don’t quit your day job.

But seriously, I am looking forward to a larger body of research on these virtual economies. I think they’re not so strange, it’s just that we are accustomed to being told that our RL economies are not bounded and fixed.

S,N! Meet up highly recommended. If it turns out 1? the fun we had at The Portlanding it will be a hoot. Drinking Sadlyly is NEVER NOT a good idea.

S,N! Meet up highly recommended. If it turns out 1? the fun we had at The Portlanding it will be a hoot. Drinking Sadlyly is NEVER NOT a good idea.

Huh. How’d I do that? WP has always whacked my weewee for doing that n

New post.

The memory does not last long on the internet.

I can’t for the life of me remember a blogger who died in 2005 or maybe 2006 and it was incredibly sad.

This one is very very sad as well.

Pinko, I think you’re thinking of Jon Swift. Or maybe Oliver Willis.

It was Steven Gilliard. I had to think about it for quite some time.

Oliver Willis is alive, although it’s quite telling that our resident troll would display his ‘death wish’ him so openly.

Steve gilliard , Jon swift, Molly ivins, now Doghouse. All much to talented. Rest in peace. ( watch out Billmon).

Just to answer Some Guy’s question: it’s very likely he saw Doghouse comment at World O’ Crap, since DR was a regular part of the community from the earliest days at Salon and remained with us through our varied and subsequent domains (just an aside, but while we may be lamented, we are not late — we just moved to blogspot (http://world-o-crap.blogspot.com/) where there are a plethora of Doghouse comments from years past, which we’re sifting through to do a kind of Greatest Hits collection.

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