you know that meow-meowing is originally from cats and not women, don’t you?

It’s too bad MJ'”‘”‘” is too old for a livejournal. She’d find many supporters among the pro-ana crowd there.

The hilarity of Marie Jon’ is in her grammar, syntax, and punctuation errors.

The woman has a punctuation error IN HER NAME.

I fail to understand how anyone who has made it past the third grade can get punctuation wrong (in a formal essay, no less), but then again I don’t have an apostrophe after my name, so what do I know.

Will we be getting a response from Smoove B?

It’s too bad MJ’”‘”‘” is too old for a livejournal. She’d find many supporters among the pro-ana crowd there.

Oh christ, that’s made it out onto the general Internets? Let me just state for the record if (almost) all my friends didn’t have journals there, I would probably close my account there just out of shame of being on the same domain as those people.

We shouldn’t have afordable healthcare in the U.S. because people are unhealthy in America, except for the robust, manly, George Bush who is winning teh war in Iraq!! Just ask Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack, who used to be just as traitorous as the unhealthy poor people (and blacks), but now they love America and George Bush, and are therefore more healthy because of it!!!

The title is Swank, but the content is Coulter (well, a very watered down and passive-agressive Coulter). Meow indeed.

If mj was in range I would kick her boney rear. Everybody knows that pear shaped behinds are NOT a heart risk.

“Just say no to socialized biggest health care moment in 40 years”

I just wanted to point out that this headline requires a cat picture.

Preferably a cute cat, but they’re all adorable, aren’t they?

Bah. She’d probably go for it if you convinced her that she’d get free top-quality lip collagen treatments. Couldn’t be any worse than what she’s got now–she’s in Lisa Rinna territory in that pic.

Dear God! I thought you were kidding with the link listing the title of her post! And it just rambles aimlessly from there. It’s like some kind of awful stream of thought experiment. I mean, she actually calls a woman a Pulitzer Prize. My brain kinda hurts now.

MJ’ , babe, ease back on the lip injections.

“Just say no to socialized biggest health care moment in 40 years”

“I just wanted to point out that this headline requires a cat picture.

Preferably a cute cat, but they’re all adorable, aren’t they?”

I don’t think a even a cat will prevent the headache that I feel creeping up on me as a result of reading that headline a couple times.

Well, she is right that Condi is thinner. On the other hand Condi was head of national security during our worst national secuity failure ever.

I call it a draw.

Is that supposed to be a glottal stop at the end of her name, like that little thingy used in Arabic when starting a word with a long or short vowel? I can’t figure out how to pronounce a glottal stop immediately after the letter ‘n’, although I suppose it could go like ‘marie-jon? (ah)’, with the appropriate aspirated vowel left unwritten.

They use glottal stops in Hebrew don’t they? Is it some sort of attempt to transcribe a real name from Hebrew using a legit diacritical mark?

I so want our MJ to be legit. Is there a linguist in the house who can save her from ridicule?

Jesus, what a bunch of shit. Hillary must be, what, in the top two or three deciles for women of her age?

Moment? Did she mean movement? Maybe I just have dipoles on the brain.

So, I just wanted to check, is Marie Jon’ from another country, such that perhaps English isn’t her first language? Perhaps she grew up in a home with parents who spoke limited English? I just wanted to check, cause then I’d feel kinda bad about mocking the puzzle that is her writing style.

There’s a woman who really needs a new hobby. Someone should do an intervention. There must be some right wing woman blogger who will kindly steer Mari’e away from writing. Let’s see… Kaye? Lopez? Is there anyone who is capable of helping poor Ms. Jo’n?

If Marie keeps this up, I’m going to dump her for Pim’s Ghost.

Just kidding! We muslimocommiemexifascists can practice polyamory just as easily as we engage in gay anal gay sex and suicide bombing. So I’m not gonna dump Marie.

Love you, Marie! You too, Pim! So let’s get back to our blissful domestic arrangements. I know I have that spaghetti with fetus meatballs recipe around here somewhere…

Lopez? As in KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ, editor of National Review Online?

If Lopez could tell good writing from bad, NRO would be a lot easier to read, in part because she wouldn’t publish any of her own writing. As it stands, she’s one of the most intellectually limited people to work for any major political magazine, and NRO is the festering crapheap it now is.

Lopez would probably look up to Jon’ and publish everything she writes without significant comment.

Maybe I just have dipoles on the brain.

I tend to prefer monopoles. I’ve got half a dozen of ’em in my sock drawer along with that hadrosaur pelvis. And half a bag of the dry food. Hey, bobby’s gotta eat.

Look. Marie is hot. But she is utterly unlikeable. Her certainty in the correctness of her fascist positions, her disdain for any other worldview, her borderline illiteracy – it all just leads to an unpleasant, obnoxious, self-righteous theocrat who thinks she should be able to inflict her violent, authoritarian worldview on me.

So even all done up in black lace, with garters and five inch spikes I’m pretty sure I’d remain flacid, and somewhat nonplussed. But it IS an experiment I’d be willing to try…

mikey

Thanks, Gavin. My derivative neologism done made me proud.

So the arbitrary new rule is that only skinny people can talk about health care? And Republican candidates, despite being much portlier on average than Hil, get a free pass for their pudge because they DON’T talk about health care?

Wow, Tony Snow should watch his back, she’s coming for his job.

I think she is just illiterate

“a living nightmare” as against what, a dead nightmare?

It’s a waking nightmare idiot!

Marie Jon’ owes me some brain cells. Holy… fuck!

I’ve never read her ‘work’ before but I’m just flabbergasted. My god, that was atrocious!

I think she made a mistake. I think she erred in committing an error. She writes one paragraph that starts:

“While much was made about Senator Hillary Clinton’s exposed cleavage,”

And then two paragraphs later she writes the same sentence again once more! With a different sentence after the second-time repeated one?!

Noted experts could say to me, “You are an “idiot” for reading all the way down the entirety of her whole entire column, you idiot,” but I do not care. Let him! I care only for ‘the truth.’ Unlike Bill Clinton, I might add!!

Shorter M’a’r’i’e’ J’o’n’: “No fat chicks.”

As a related aside, walking around the mall dressed in a Hillary Suit is a surprisingly positive experience.

Clinton/SAMMICH ’08!

If mj was in range I would kick her boney rear. Everybody knows that pear shaped behinds are NOT a heart risk.

I think if mj was in range I would bone her pear shaped behind while simultaneously kicking my heart risk.

Everybody wins, right?

The woman has a punctuation error IN HER NAME.

That’s not an error. She just likes to keep a spare apostrophe handy in case she unexpectedly needs to pluralize something.

Trilateral Chairman said,
August 9, 2007 at 23:13

Um, I guess I should have used my sarcasm tags…

She just likes to keep a spare apostrophe handy in case she unexpectedly needs to pluralize something.

That makes sense. I have a special balistic nylon pancake rig I wear hi-rise offhand crossdraw that contains 2 em-dashes, 2 question marks, 1 exclamation point, 1 umlaut and an interrobang. All factory sealed in the original packaging. It’s for emergencies…

mikey

mikey-

WTF is an interrobang?

She writes like a fucking sixth grader.

A sixth grader repeating the sixth grade.

I tried to read it, just to look for punctuation errors to laugh at, but I couldn’t. My eyes just kept glazing over.

Wait, I used the google…

Why didn’t I know about this fantastic symbol before?!?! (See what I mean?)

mikey,

You also need one of these:

#!

Used to start interpreted scripts on Unix.

It’s called the sha-bang.

‽

Bam! Bam bam bam!

(‽)

Marie Jon: Whether you like his politics or not, President Bush works out daily to stay in good health.

This explains why he tripped and choked on a pretzel. Poor boob fell off the treadmill after he fell off the wagon.

Marie Jon: We know where Bush stands on Iraq. He is committed to win the war. Many are beginning to think he just might be able to do it. The many (=two) conclude their spin with

In the end, the situation in Iraq remains grave….

How much longer should American troops keep fighting and dying to build a new Iraq while Iraqi leaders fail to do their part? And how much longer can we wear down our forces in this mission? These haunting questions underscore the reality that the surge cannot go on forever.

Marie Jon: With the possible exception of the buff and chiseled Mitt Romney, no Republican presidential candidate has discussed changing our heath care system.

Mitt and Marie, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G. (profuse apologies to HTML Mencken, her number one boytoy.)

Mikey: I thought you said “black face.” And then I thought: man, TMI. And then I reread it: still TMI.

Mitt and Marie, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

You hurt me, Lesley.

How incredibly nasty. As a matter of fact, HC’s physique is not all that different from Laura Bush’s:

Together, 2004

Marie Jon’ couldn’t even get it right, anyway – the studies show that pear-shaped people are LESS at risk than so-called apple-shaped people, who carry their weight in their tummy (like me.)

Because some people have a way with words, and other people…. not have way…

Candy said, Um, I guess I should have used my sarcasm tags…

Sorry. My bad. The sight of hideously inflated lips tends to fry my brain.

That’s not an error. She just likes to keep a spare apostrophe handy in case she unexpectedly needs to pluralize something.

That was hilarious. Thank you.

I was picturing some thick accent (think russian stripper) while I read which helped. I imagined her typing away with two fake nailed fingers as she repeated the words like slow people do when they read.

Smoove, get yourself on top of this…like some kinda stud terrapin.

Wow. Seriously. I’ve only followed the Jon’ through you guys. This time I decided to click the link. That’s the worst writing I’ve ever read. Ever.

g: If anything, Laura B. is a bit more “insulated” than Sen. C. Doubtless the alcohol & tranquilizer diet.
And a thorough search of the webs can’t find a shot of Marie J.’ other than the headshot from Renew America (& the variant from the same shoot posted above) & one from Capitol Hill Coffee House, in which MJ’ sports a turtleneck (sweater). But judging from the exposed shoulder shots, she’s genetically lucky, or anorexic/bulimic. Or maybe doesn’t exist/is using the photo of a long-dead model for those pics you get in a picture frame or wallet. Or never leaves the house/appears in public.

Simba B. said:
She writes like a fucking sixth grader.
A sixth grader repeating the sixth grade.

Unfortunately, I get papers of similar quality all the time…and I teach college. You would not believe some of the crap that people turn in. Worse yet, I don’t really have time to untangle and correct all of the errors in such a piece. Fortunately, my school happens to have a very good writing center. It doesn’t turn laggard students into magnificent writers, but it does help stamp out the worst of their solecisms.

Of course, they ultimately discover that people will still read (and even purchase!) your work even if you write as poorly as Queen Apostrophe here. Makes me wonder whether I should even bother.

I have a similar problem with Jonah Goldberg. I try to teach my students about the importance of crafting a logical argument that’s grounded in verifiable facts, and then along comes the nationally-syndicated Nepotism Boy to say that he doesn’t know a whole heck of a lot about his chosen topic but will nonetheless feel free to natter a few aphorisms and mock the more knowledgeable. I think that most of my students would understand the shame they’d feel if they grew up to be Jonah, but I just know that some of them would breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that they could hack it in spite of their inferior skills.

I need a drink, damnit.

2 em-dashes, 2 question marks, 1 exclamation point, 1 umlaut and an interrobang. All factory sealed in the original packaging. It’s for emergencies…
In any serious crisis, I recommend a cannonade of colons. A colonnade.

I need a drink, damnit.
Someone pour Trilateral Chairman a double umlaut.

Wanna know what’s weird? I went over to a friends house the other day. He’s a doctor. Actually, he’s a proctologist. I sat down, we talked about the stock market, the giants, bush and iraq. Pretty good time.

He said “you want something to drink?”.

I said “sure”.

He handed me this glass containing a foul-smelling chunky brown liquid over ice. I said “dude, what IS this?”

He said “give it a try. Its colonade”….

mikey

One double umlaut with an interrobang twist, comin’ right up.

Oddly, that actually sounds good. I quit drinking about two months ago due to the fact that every time I have more than two drinks i get a migraine. Now, the most obscure drink references sound delightful…

I wonder if Our Lady of the Apostrophe is a secret drinker. That would explain a lot. Maybe she’s a recluse with a house full of shrieking caged birds, stacks of old Weekly Standards lying around in moldering piles, shades drawn and the whole place reeking of blended apostrophes.

Marita, I would be your slave if you reveal the sekrit to the interrobang.

I love interrobangs. I would interrobang all day.

And btw….when did mikey start on the Catskills circuit?

If Marie Jon’ owns something, how many apostrophes do you use to express that?

Marie Jon’s? Marie Jon”s? Or is there a whole other symbol?

billy, I am happy to share with you the secret to interrobanging. If you were to remove all the spaces from:

& # 8253 ;

You would be a very happy pilgrim, would you not‽

If Marie Jon’ owns something, how many apostrophes do you use to express that?

You know, I’ve struggled with that. Apropos Marie Jon’, I frankly try to avoid phrasings in the possessive case.

…Another problem, by the by, is whether to put commas inside or outside the apostrophe.

?I’m with stupid.

Rats. Had a finger pointing down there, but WordPress hates it.

The woman has a punctuation error IN HER NAME.

I thought it was a tongue click. Linguists writing in English use different punctuation marks to represent the “click” noises used in certain southern African languages (and, yes, there is more than one kind of linguistic click). In Marie’s case, she feels the need to carry a spare click wherever she goes so that she will always be able to tsk, tsk, tsk about other people’s lives.

As for the content of this piece, what there is of it, I would offer to smother her to death with my enormous gross saggy old buzzums, but I don’t want to make HTML cry.

I would offer to smother her to death with my enormous gross saggy old buzzums

Ok, now I have to go touch myself in a most inappropriate way…

mikey

I know! I’ll square the apostrophe! For example:

Marie Jon’²s

I feel so much better now.

But wait… What if you want to describe her family? Are they the Jon’s? Doesn’t that look strangely possessive?

I dunno, mikey, sounds completely appropriate to me. Really, it’s only inappropriate if you’re touching someone else (& w/o their consent). If anyoone needs me, I’ll be in the shower. (Washing myself very appropriately. Bazooms. Ummm, Jeri Thompson…)

Government health dare is “Socialism” by definition.

okay- my toes finally uncurled. I had a boob, bunkbed/interrobang mashup going through my head. Please- no one mention jon’s feets’

Ya know, I call BS. I don’t believe that there is anyone by the name of ” Marie Jon’ “. Do we have any proof that she is a real human being? I further don’t believe the picture is the real author of the column. I think they just found some model willing to give her image for a modest price.

Is there any proof that Marie Jon’ actually exists?

According to a Google search, WordPress does do UTF-8 but you have to set it up. Some settings in MySQL, apparently. So more accurately, Seb’s database configuration hates us.

Sadly, No! needs 100,000 characters at it’s disposal. Think of the comment threads…

REM!!!

Er, sorry, just had an epiphany.

Crush, with eyeliner just came on. And I realized.

REM is the soundtrack to this thread!!

And I got unreasonably excited.

Ok, move on, nothing to see here….

mikey

I have to echo the oft expressed sentiment on this thread. This woman, while she may be superficially attractive, is really not very bright. In fact, she appears to be a pretty dim bulb – no, let’s leave the passive voice and just cop to it – she’s stupid. Sorry I can’t be more clever about it. Perhaps when Smoove B wins her over the resulting ecstasy will rocket from her..umm..err nether chakra to open her thousand flowered lotus resulting in a miraculous explosion of mental prowess giving her the literary abilities of an average sixth grader! All hail Smoove!!!

We’re waiting…

Sadly, No! needs 100,000 characters at it’s disposal. Think of the comment threads…

Damn right. Like this one!

????????????? ???????????? ???? ? ??? ????????? ? ????????????????

mikey

damn, wordpresshatesme….

mikey

MJ”s attractiveness, if indeed the photo & author are the same being, probably helped her immeasurably in getting through school w/o learning to write, or think. I’m worried about her patients (she is “an [sic] practicing nurse,” after all) though. Did she slide through nursing school on her looks? Is there a trail of mistakenly dosed patients following her?

I love shooting big, close-in targets. (Like Ms. Atlas @ the range.)

she is “an [sic] practicing nurse,” after all

She may be “practicing”, but is she licensed? I think that may be the key question here.

Is there any proof that Marie Jon’ actually exists?

Maybe she is a transhumanist/cyborg showing some neurological damage. Or maybe just an artificial intelligence, or artificial lack of intelligence. Or just an all-natural lack of intelligence.

Nevermind. This comment is going nowhere interesting. I’ll go have another beer and contemplate the inscrutability of it all.

L’apostrophe!! C’est un cauchemare vivant!

Let’s see how many people I can piss off.
I think that M’a’r’i’e is really a blonde. snark

You started typing in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover – cleavage, backsides, blouses and the new Prada handbag line. Out West, where you vacation, the apostrophes will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their commas connect them. Come back to punctuation – and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers.

But judging from the exposed shoulder shots, [Marie Jon’]’s genetically lucky, or anorexic/bulimic.

No, she’s just chronologically lucky. She’s young.

And she pays for decent-looking head shots.

Let’s see her at 60. See if she looks anywhere as good as Hillary.

My mom was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer.Scheduled for surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering for next Thursday,then chemo.Has Medicare and an HMO.MSK. doesn’t take HMO’s never realized she enrolled in some Medicare Advantage horseshit 10 or 15 years ago.Hearing her beg for her life to some bureaucrat broke my heart today.Any other modern country would’ve been no prob.Even some bourgeois social democracy would put the health of it’s citizenry before some prick executives golden parachute,but no not us.And these imbeciles seem to think this is the first step to some Marxist prolateriat dictatorship.At first glance I said I’d hit that,but on second thought,Go fuck yourself Miss Lil Jon’

‘Too many people decry their poor health’

Especially the ones that are dying or drinking Candian Club and Cokes.

Apologies- Demize
Inapropiate follow up.
My Mom has ovarian cancer and medicaid.
I got my first looksee at a nursing home and they are pretty frightening.
Off topic- I do picture a future where there’s a lot more puters around the nursing home and people are playing xbox all day.

You know, the amazing thing about ole Marie Jon’ is that in her push to make a point about nationalized health care, her rhetorical device to use Robin Givhan’s fashion columns is exactly as 180 degrees off as her use of the “pear-shape/apple shape” study.

The Givhan column about Hillary’s cleavage – stupid as it was – had nothing to say about Hillary’s health. The Givhan column about Cheney wearing the parka that Marie uses to create the illusion she;s being even-handed was actually countered by Cheney’s office in a statement that referred to Cheney’s problems with phlebitis.

So, in fact, it isn’t Hillary who is “a heart attack waiting to happen” – it’s our Vice President, who is waiting for YET ANOTHER heart attack to happen, if the phlebitis don’t get him first. And of course, HE’S got great “cradle to grave” health insurance coverage, doesn’t he?

She’s too fucking stupid for words.

was actually countered by Cheney’s office in a statement that referred to Cheney’s problems with phlebitis.

Sorry. What I meant to say and didn’t say it right was that Cheney’s office basically issued statements to the effect of, “Well, he had to dress that way, of course, to accommodate his phlebitis.”

MJ seems to have a problem with fat chicks (I couldn’t read the whole article, I’m just reaching here), so how does the conversation with old Lopez over at the NRO go, I wonder? or is it just fat liberals she has a problem with?

If Lopez could tell good writing from bad, NRO would be a lot easier to read, in part because she wouldn’t publish any of her own writing. As it stands, she’s one of the most intellectually limited people to work for any major political magazine, and NRO is the festering crapheap it now is.

I have wondered about this myself, old Steyn’s columns (at NRO) are full of grammar and spelling errors, and a lot of the rest of them are in dire need of a sub editor. You would have thought they could sort this out, however, perhaps there target audience doesn’t really mind.

DEMIZE! said: “Go fuck yourself Miss Lil Jon”

I’d like to second that motion.

The arrogance of the lucky can become very ugly.

I’ve seen the young having to depend on very lucky insurance, and I’ve felt it was very unfair that ALL young persons couldn’t do the same. I’ve seen the old having to depend on very lucky insurance, and I’ve felt it was very unfair that ALL old persons couldn’t do the same.

Oh, and by the way.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=14325
“In other words, apple-shaped people are more at risk of heart problems than those who are pear-shaped.”

Why can’t we take “luck” out of the health insurance equation? Why do young people born to parents who luckily had good health insurance get treatment that is denied to the unlucky who chose the wrong parents? Why do old people who luckily had good health insurance get treatment that is denied to the unlucky who chose to work for the wrong corporations?

And these imbeciles seem to think this is the first step to some Marxist prolateriat dictatorship

If that is what it takes, so be it. How did Douglas Adams put it: “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes”

Jerks, but not so mindless.

obbey_dosser said,

August 10, 2007 at 7:09

MJ seems to have a problem with fat chicks.Well I LOOOVE fat chicks!BBW lover in the hizzie yall!

Apparently Marie Jon’ thinks every health care problem can be solved if you do enough exercise (like her old manly heroes, Mitt and George).

GP: Hello Marie Jon’. What can I do for you today?

MJ’: I think I have a yeast infection, a bladder infection, and I have dreadful menstral cramps. Between the itching and the pain, I’m not getting any sleep.

GP: Oh dear. That sounds horrible.
*writes instructions for Keigel exercises and hands it to her.”

I don’t know what I said wrong about Marie Jon, but the Frau Doktorin has just touched me inappropriately with a frying-pan.
It may have been a mistake to introduce her to Red Meat cartoons.

Side question — why are there so many hot chicks in the Rabid Right?

Linguists writing in English use different punctuation marks to represent the “click” noises used in certain southern African languages (and, yes, there is more than one kind of linguistic click).

Speaking as an amateur linguist, I thought the “!” was more often used as a click (as in X!osa (sp?)) while the “‘” was more often a glottal stop. But maybe it’s just me.

Government health dare is “Socialism” by definition.

As opposed to “government health Double Dare” where you get full medical coverage but have to crawl through a vat of lime Jello to get it.

If Marie keeps this up, I’m going to dump her for Pim’s Ghost.

Yeah, I think I agree – if I HAD to try to convert one of them to our side, Pim-G would be my choice.

Oh, and a hearty “AIEE! Giant metal bug!” at the mention of her blog.

Just say no to socialized biggest health care moment in 40 years

I think I saw this once printed on the back of a pair of chopsticks as instructions. It didn’t make sense then, but now, maybe, I get it.

Side question — why are there so many hot chicks in the Rabid Right?

Larry:

I don’t think that there is actually any more prevalance of hot chicks (or hot guys) in the Rabid Right, than in the political Center, or the Socialists, or the Libertarians. I do think that the right wing in this country has gotten good at picking spokespeople, especially the women, who are attractive, and this gives them a propaganda advantage- one which I wish more left-ish types would recognize and emulate.

Um, yuck, tasteless.

But yes, that was a good psychoanalytic exercise.

Well, I hope everyone here at Sadly, No! enjoyed my little psychoanalytic exercise.

Yeah, thanks, we’ll enjoy it when someone comes along in a little while howling that left-wing blog comments are full of outrageous left-wing sexual attacks.

We never touch anyone’s comments here unless they have a third-party’s personal information in them, or genuine non-satirical attacks on someone, but I think this one qualifies, alas. It’s way past what we like to call ‘the reasonable ping-pong ball threshold.’

Very weak, Gavin.

Very weak, Gavin.

That’s how I roll.

There are a couple of reasons why removing my psychoanalytic exercise is weak, Gavin. Sure it was over the top and crude, but in a completely appropriate way.

The whole media obsession over Hillary’s alleged exposure of her cleavage was motivated by a ridiculous atavistic puritanism about sex. This kind of fake puritan morality has the effect of elevating the morality of sexual conduct over the morality of providing health care to children (and other human beings).

The use of profane sexual content in the satirization of this fake puritan morality is perfectly appropriate, underscoring the fact that the puritans will be shocked and morally appalled at my psychoanalytic exercise while they are simultaneously perfectly sanguine about truly immoral conduct like the privation of health care or the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq.

Gavin, why is it acceptable discourse to oppose a fundamental moral principle like the provision of basic healthcare to children but unacceptable to talk about sex, even satirically?

If you don’t restore my comment then you’re almost as bad as they are.

Gavin M, enforcer of puritan liberalism!

Well, that’s one way to look at it.

That’s how I roll, dawg.

One final comment:

Gavin says, ‘It’s way past what we like to call ‘the reasonable ping-pong ball threshold.”

All I can say is, “Sadly, no”.

Are we sure Marie isn’t really a blonde that has dyed her hair to look smart (after all, looks are EVERYTHING). She sure doesn’t seem to understand the difference between socialized medicine and the single payer billing system. Now if she can just tell me why her Gawd won’t heal amputees? Doesn’t she have the faith of a mustard seed?

Uh-oh!!! BlueBlogsTV mocked God by calling Him “Gawd”!

Thanks, BlueBlogsTV, we’ll enjoy it when someone comes along in a little while howling that left-wing blog comments are full of outrageous left-wing religious attacks.

Gavin M, in your role as enforcer of puritan liberalism, you must remove BlueBlogsTV’s comment post haste. You must be quivering with fear about what the consveratives will say.

Out of curioity, what kind of outfit does an enforcer of puritan liberalism wear?

Gavin M, in your role as enforcer of puritan liberalism, you must remove BlueBlogsTV’s comment post haste. You must be quivering with fear about what the consveratives will say.

Oh wait, I heard you wrong. I thought you said: “That significantly expands the range of things he’s good for from possibly a little ass-to-mouth action to probably a little 2-on-1 ass-to-mouth action, with Gavin on cleanup duty. Off course, we’ll have to remove his ball gag when its time for Gavin to lip squeegee my love porkchop, but that thing goes right back in as soon as he’s done licking the feces off my jimmy!”

Except you used someone else’s name instead of mine, I guess, which was what bothered me. Must be hearing things.

Uh, Gavin. In the system of fake puritan morality, its the sexual nature of the attack which is the problem, not the object of the attack.

You, oh enforcer of puritan liberalism, must now either remove your own comment or restore mine.

I think the outfit should involve a leather harness and a pilgrim-style hat. And definitely those shoes with buckles on them.

You, oh enforcer of puritan liberalism, must now either remove your own comment or restore mine.

Don’t gotta.

Gavin, my man, allow me to rephrase that:

You, oh enforcer of puritan liberalism, must now either remove your own comment or restore mine or be convicted as either 1) a man devoid of consistent principle in the matter of the right to free speech or 2) a frightened little pussy.

What does the lolcat of a frightened little pussy look like?

So many questions, so few answers…

You, oh enforcer of puritan liberalism, must now either remove your own comment or restore mine or be convicted as either 1) a man devoid of consistent principle in the matter of the right to free speech or 2) a frightened little pussy.

I can has chesburger?

Actually, Gavin, I presented you with a false choice in my last comment. 1) and 2) are not only not mutually exclusive, they are probably highly correlated.

O Hai.

Dude, I’m just kidding, although I do think you should have left the comment up. You have a great site here.

You have a great site here.

Yeah, heh-heh. Shame if sump’m was ta happen ta it.

“She’d find many supporters among the pro-anal crowd there.”

Fixed it for ya…

Just got here, didn’t see it (hell, if Gavin deleted it, I reckon that’s a GOOD thing) but lemme make a little suggestion, Mr. Tasteless.

You are commenting on a blog that is not yours. Live with whatever rules are applied by those who own and run the place. A little like going to somebody elses house or place of business.

Nothing in the universe is preventing you from doing anything you want and deem appropriate at your own blog. So stop whining. Live with it here, or do it somewhere else.

How is this so difficult…

mikey

I find your legalistic analysis in terms of property rights lacking, Mr. Mikey. There was never any question that Gavin has a legal right to delete the comment on a blog that’s his. The question is whether he SHOULD have deleted it. Your principle of If-Gavin-Did-It,It-MUST-Be-Right is also lacking. You will need to provide a more general principle that little bit of ass kissing. [Oh terrible God of Sadly No please don’t delete my comment for saying that!]

The question is whether or not it is in the spirit fairness and the free expression and open exchange of ideas and the general spirit of the blogosphere to delete a comment that employs profanity in the process of satirization simply because it may be offensive to some conservatives, while at the same time allowing other comments that are guaranteed to offend conservatives. Its ok to offend conservatives about religion but not sex?

Another question is whether it is justifiable to delete a comment due to profanity but then proceed to reprint the most profane portion of the comment without the rest of it that demonstrates that it was satire, not profanity for the sake of profanity.

Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear.

The point about gavin was that he’s quite hands-off with the comments, so if he felt compelled to delete it it musta been pretty far out there. If that’s ass kissing, well, you can kiss mine, big fellah.

My comment was not really about property rights.

It was about WHINING rights.

As in, you don’t got ’em here…

mikey

You know, Mike, your comment about me kissing your ass is not materially different than the comment that was deleted.

So bite me, little man.

You know, Mike, your comment about me kissing your ass is not materially different than the comment that was deleted.

Dude, that isn’t true.

I get the feeling tasteless, joe, saul, and Seth are same guy(s). Seriously, dude(s), go away. You’re harshing our buzz.

High-school level trolling isn’t appreciated around here.

atheist: yes it is. Kissing a man’s ass is just another form of ass-to-mouth.

Yes, but your fantasy was way more detailed, scatalogical, complex, and digressive.

Simba: Its not trolling. And highschool level? Have you read the comments? Whatever level you want to ascribe to them, they were clearly over your head.

The title to her piece does not even make sense, much less the rest of the article. Sorta free-associating with bad grammar. Giving attractive women a bad name.

BTW: just to clear up any confusion that may have followed from Gavin’s edited and abridged selection from my oh-so-grievously tasteless comment, the comment that was erased did not attack Gavin in any way. It was a satirical attack on Marie Jon. Gave was trying to make some sort of obscure joke or point or something and, in the selection he “quoted,” replaced his own name where the original said “Marie”.

I have not been trolling

That’s the problem with deleting and then reprinting a portion of a proscribed comment. You get all the offensiveness of the language of the original comment, without the edifying part of why the author chose to use offensive language. You also unjustly and falsely portray the author as merely obscene. Best just to stay out of the censorship business altogether and leave that to authoritarian types.

My god, I was censored on one of THE premier progressive blogs for telling a commenter that I hoped he didn’t believe in the tired Republican meme of “Iraq had something to do with 9/11.” That’s all I said. It was deleted and labeled an “attack” by the mod. In return, the mod allowed another person to attack me days later.

Calm down.

Not that Sadly, No! isn’t one of THE premier progressive blogs. Was just bein’ snarky.

In any case, I think we can all agree that it was utterly immoral and wrong and grievously offensive for that liberal NY festival to put on the Rude Pundit’s show The Year of Living Rudely.

Think of the children. And the conservatives. (But I repeat myself – haha).

As Margo Jefferson of the NYT said in her review of The Year of Living Rudely, “Political theater thrives on the Web. No censorship, no compromise. Mainstream news media writers and cartoonists get to shake off time and tone constraints.”

Oops. Well I guess she got that part wrong.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/theater/16rude.html?ei=5070&en=853b52def538dc8c&ex=1186891200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1186775829-VNbSXE5w1hAAm4eBKmrenA

But this part seems pretty accurate:

“Mr. Papa’s ruling metaphor is always some form of aggressive to abusive sex. Do you remember that 1970’s country hit, “Take This Job and Shove It?” Replace the word “job” with everything from weapons of mass destruction to false information, target someone like Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove or Mr. Limbaugh, and tell them what to do with it.

The Rude Pundit is a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson. Bruce and Richard Pryor were masters of stand-up comedy as political theater. Mr. Thompson was a master of journalism as performance art.

If you know their work you know that in the right hands, fantasy and obscenity are cathartic. They attack hypocrisy, because hypocrisy lulls us. Fantasy charms us and obscenity shocks us.”

So Gavin, I have Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Rude Pundit on my side. Thus far you have Mikey and Simba on yours.

I feel pretty good about the company I’m keeping.

What lame excuse for a “premier progressive blog” was that, pine nut?

What lame excuse for a “premier progressive blog” was that, pine nut?

Did it begin with an ‘A’?

So Gavin, I have Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Rude Pundit on my side.

Oh. Well, you should post about xxxtreme ass-to-mouth and yanging your ding-dong on the Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Hunter S. Thompson, and Rude Pundit blogs — assuming you can catch one of those rare occasions on which Lee over at Rude Pundit has decided to enable comments.

I told you already; it’s not the explicit stuff that’s the problem. It’s that you went Max Hardcore about a specific person who — you might have noticed — visited the site today and left comments of her own.

I know you understand the difference.

thought it was a tongue click.

I for one will henceforth read it and think of a French waiter doing the mouth POP thingy. No idea what one would call that.

I guess its just too edgy for an enforcer of puritan liberalism to handle, huh?

Your argument is pathetically weak, Gavin. You seem to be really hung up about the idea that the satire was directed at a specific person. Well that specific person made herself a public figure by posting a public attack ona public web site. To quote Karl Rove, “She’s fair game”.

And she made herself a public figure for the express purpose of insulting liberals, praising Bush’s murderous war of aggression, and promoting the privation of health care for children and others. THAT is the truly offensive behavior. And someone conducting herself in that kind of immoral and public fashion has no rightful claim to be protected from satire. Certainly not on a liberal satire blog.

This is a liberal satire blog isn’t it? I fear that the answer now must be, “Sadly No”

You know Gavin, whatever the conservatards tell you, YOU are not responsible for the comments left on your blog, UNLESS, you have a censorship policy. But Gawd knows, offending conservatives is not allowed on Sadly No.

UPDATE:

Holy Shit! I just tried to click the link to the Marie Jon web site to see if I remembered correctly about her supporting Bush’s war and they have blocked my IP!!!

Wow, Gavin. It looks like Alan Keyes and Marie Jon are quickly catching up to your standards of conservatively correct speech.

Gavin: I don’t know enough about web technology. How did they get my IP? You didn’t give it to them did you?

UPDATE II:

Holy Shot Gavin. You made fun of Krauthammer for having no legs? Oh My Gawd. That’s not even satire. But my piece is too offensive for your site?

You know, gav, Krauthammer is a specific person. Also, he has legs he just can’t use them.

…UNLESS, you have a censorship policy…

The policy is posted in the ‘about’ section. I’ve deleted fewer than a dozen comments over the years, out of a total of about 150,000. You can be proud of your achievement.

Gavin: I don’t know enough about web technology. How did they get my IP? You didn’t give it to them did you?

No, and I also don’t look up people’s IPs unless there’s a real and objective reason to do so. I have no idea, for instance, whether you’re one of our frequent trolls, and I have no reason to be overpoweringly curious.

Are you an idiot? Or do you just play one on the web?

Your browser HAS to send your IP to every site you, you know, click with that mousy thing? It’s like putting your return address on the envelope. The website wouldn’t know where to send the pretty pictures and those wordy like things if you didn’t tell it.

Gawd, but the quality of trolls has gone down bigtime lately…

mikey

“The policy is posted in the ‘about’ section.”

I checked your about section. I found the following statement of policy:

Comments are strictly and sweepingly unmoderated. The sole exception to this ancient rule is assholish behavior such as physical threats or ‘outings’ of people who wish to remain anonymous, for which there obtains a zero-tolerance deletion policy.

Let’s see now. Physical threats? No, it was obviously satire, not a threat. Outing? No.

Looks like you better take the “un” out of “unmoderated” in your about section.

Shorter tasteless:

Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!

Mikey:

I plead ignorance about web technology. Sorry.

Here’s what I don’t get. I knew that your IP was sent to sites you click on, asshole. What I don’t get is how they got my IP when I clicked on Sadly No. Get it? Sure they got my IP when I clicked on her article. But how did they know that was tasteless’ IP? Its not a stupid question.

Also, I’m clearly not a troll unless you define a troll as someone who agrees with the point of a blog post but continues to post even when people don’t respond to his well reasoned good faith arguments.

Dude, tasteless, you went too far and you got called on it. Adults realize their mistake and MOVE ON. You’re just throwing a juvenile tantrum to follow up on what was a juvenile comment (yes, I read it).

Gavin, Seb, or any of the other contributors can do whatever the fuck they want. It’s their site. People like you are ruining the quality of the community here in the past week or so, and it’s really, really starting to piss me off.

Go away. Take your petulant 12-year-old behavior elsewhere.

Marita, that’s hilarious. I almost used that line from Monty Python in one of my posts earlier.

Have I mentioned that I have people on my side? Because I do. And they’re famous. And some are dead so they aren’t exactly on my side, but I assure EVERYBODY they are on my side. And they wouldn’t be embarrassed to be on my side either.

That’s great Simba. Do you have any arguments or are you satisifed with mere name calling?

As I said earlier, in a blog post you obviously didn’t understand, its not a question of whether Gavin can do whatever he wants with his site. Its a question of whether he SHOULD do what he did. And its a question of whether or not it is consistent with his own values and, in fact, his own practices.

Let’s see.

Scatlogical satire? Too far.

Posting the scatalogical part without the satiure part. That’s ok.

Mocking Gawd. That’s ok.

Mocking a paralyzed guy for having “no legs”. That’s ok too.

I’m afraid this policy is just far too nuanced for someone with my juvenile high school intellect.

Hey Mikey, you computer genius, you want to explain how Marie Jon got my IP when I clicked on Sadly No?

I’m afraid this policy is just far too nuanced for someone with my juvenile high school intellect.

It’s ok. There’s still time to get up to speed. Would a flow chart help?

Righteous Bubba, I’m totally on your side. Not physically of course, but metaphorically speaking. Or something.

Let’s see now. Physical threats? No, it was obviously satire, not a threat. Outing? No.

Looks like you better take the “un” out of “unmoderated” in your about section.

You got busted for ‘assholish behavior,’ which is very hard to do around here.

Mikey says we can do whatever we want with the site, but the corollary is that we very much do not like to interfere with people saying whatever they want, whenever they want. It’s a hateful duty when we have to enforce something like a comment policy.

So listen: When I have to delete a comment, e.g. yours, I don’t get mad at what the comment said, but I get mad at the fact that someone, e.g. you, made me look like an asshole in front of everybody by putting on a safety-patrol badge and blowing a little tin whistle.

If you want to argue, there are plenty of other topics to argue about here, such that the discussion can be sparkly and interesting.

This topic isn’t.

#

Marita said,

August 10, 2007 at 18:21

I think the outfit should involve a leather harness and a pilgrim-style hat. And definitely those shoes with buckles on them.
Preferably with spike heels.

Dude, the point is you didn’t “have to” to delete my comment. Until you censored me, you were not responsible for that comment. It said “tasteless said”, not “Gavin said”.

“you, made me look like an asshole in front of everybody”

If it walks like a duck…

Gavin, there’s larger point. You’re buying into the conservative canard that blogs are responsbile for whatever random commenters unaffiliated with the site post in the comments. Its a ridiculous and pernicious argument.

Is network TV responsible when someone streaks through a football game? Are live radio show hosts responsible for offensive comments that callers make?

“If you want to argue, there are plenty of other topics to argue about here, such that the discussion can be sparkly and interesting.

This topic isn’t.”

It isn’t? The question of free speech and the blogosphere is not interesting? The issue of the conservative attempt to squelch free speech on the internet by intimidating blog hosts is not interesting?

For Gavin, the answer is..drum roll please…Sadly! No.

Dude, I thought much more highly of you before today. Every time you comment you make yourself look worse.

I’m sticking with asshole-ish behavior, and you are only proving it by not letting go.

I still wanna know how Marie Jon got my IP if Gavin didn’t give it to her. Must be that new FISA law. Holy shit, come to think of it, I read in your about section that you were based in Germany. That means that, thanks to the cowards in Congress, they really could trace my blog post. I wonder….No, they wouldn’t do that. Would they?

You know if I was someone posting in this blog (actually I am), I would be careful about what I say. You could easily offend Gavin and other puritan moralists. And you might get tapped without a warrant.

Shorter tasteless:

I’m rubber and you’re glue…

Sheesh

mikey

Hey Duros62: let go of THIS

Mikey. Since you are such a computer genius, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind explainng how Marie Jon got my IP to ignoramuses like me.

Mikey said, “I’m rubber and you’re glue…”

You are being ironic, right? Because you see your comment is a rubber-and glue comment while mine definitely aren’t. My comments are not (solely) name calling unless in direct response to a comment that was solely name calling directed against me. You follow?

Who’s the troll, troll?

Bwa- HAAA!! I am pwned!! (interrabang)!

Since you are such a computer genius, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind explainng how Marie Jon got my IP to ignoramuses like me.

Why is this important? There are all kinds of reasons sites might not want your traffic. Myself, I use a widget called Fasterfox that makes my browsing experience better, but site admins have good reason to hate it because it increases server load if you use the greedy settings.

Anyway, whenever my daughter is freaking out over nothing, I get her to imagine the Muppets taking roles in her favourite movies. You might want to imagine what Muppet would play the title role in Edward Penishands.

Righteous Bubba: that’s great. I love no-argument posts. it makes replying to the argument so much easier.

You said, ‘Why is this important? There are all kinds of reasons sites might not want your traffic.”

The question is not WHY they did it. I’m fairly certain that its because I said all Marie John is good for is a little A-to-M, if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

My question is HOW did they do it, since Gavin sayas he didn’t give it to them? How the hell does someone read a blog comment in a blog that is not their own and get their IP? I think you can see why people would care about that.

Oh, yes, RB, like this one?

Can liberals be just as pigheaded and unresponsive to rational argumentation as conservatives?

After reading the comments here, the answer is..duh dunt dunt…Sadly! Yes.

My question is HOW did they do it, since Gavin sayas he didn’t give it to them? How the hell does someone read a blog comment in a blog that is not their own and get their IP?

What I’d like to know is how you’re posting all these messages here if I’m ‘censoring’ you. That’s quite a technical trick.

test

How disingenuous! Don’t be an ass, Gavin, you know you censored me. You admit it upthread for gawdsake.

Gavin, until I find out that it is technically possible to get a blog commenter’s IP off a blog you don’t own, I’m afraid that you, my friend, are the prime suspect.

Can you explain how someone got MY IP off of YOUR web site?

I think I know what it must be. They must be blocking all access to clicks through Sadly No. Is anyone else being blocked when they click on the link here at Sadly No?

My question is HOW did they do it, since Gavin sayas he didn’t give it to them? How the hell does someone read a blog comment in a blog that is not their own and get their IP? I think you can see why people would care about that.

What I’m saying is that since you’re clueless about the technical issues you don’t understand that there might be some other crap going on that is purely automated, blah blah blah.

Help-desk guys all over the world have acronyms for things like Problem Exists Between Computer and Chair, or Problem Exists Between User’s Ears and it’s pretty important to figure out your own shit before you drag somebody else into it. On the other hand they’d have to fire a lot of help-desk guys, and I’m some kinda full-employment commie, so please remain ignorant.

I’m way ahead of you Bubba. Surprisingly! Not.

Oh, yes, RB, like this one?

Maybe when the little dear is six.

Gavin, until I find out that it is technically possible to get a blog commenter’s IP off a blog you don’t own, I’m afraid that you, my friend, are the prime suspect.

Oh, I could go look at your IP and see if it’s something obviously zany, but if I found out that you were one of the usual trolls I’d be disappointed.

Dude, look TCP/IP or ‘IP address’ up on Wikipedia.

Basically, if you do ANYTHING on the Internet you reveal your IP address to someone. It’s not this magical seekrit number either, you can’t really find much out about the person behind it (technically it belongs to your ISP) and for connection types other than residential cable/DSL broadband (e.g. 56k dial-up or cellular), it changes often enough to be meaningless for identification purposes.

It is part of the IP datagram that you send to every single other computer (e.g. server or otherwise) you connect to.

Nothing comes off stupider than arrogant incompetence, especially about computer matters.

Um, just to be clear, that comment was directed at tasteless and not Gavin.

Oh, no ambiguity or offense.

Basically, if you do ANYTHING on the Internet you reveal your IP address to someone.

Gawd you’re a simple troll aren’t you Simba?

I want you to pay VERY careful attention now. Here is the question:

Given that:

1) Gavin gets my IP when I click on Sadly N, and

2) Marie Jon gets my IP when I click on her article

HOW, does Marie Jon know that IP 123.456.789 who clicked on her article is the same IP that the commenter “tasteless” on Sadly No has?

None of you computer geniuses have been able to answer this question, although you are all capable of much snark about the fact that I didn’t have an answer.

Now, granted, I’m not a computer genius on the exalted scale of people like Gates, von Neuman, Mikey, or a Simba, but I did come up with a resonable hypothesis: they could be blocking all clicks that originate from Sadly No. You follow?

Can one of you computer geniuses use that little mouse thingy that you click with and see if YOU can get through?

HOW, does Marie Jon know that IP 123.456.789 who clicked on her article is the same IP that…

Because you’re making it up and wasting good people’s time?

Oh, I could go look at your IP and see if it’s something obviously zany, but if I found out that you were one of the usual trolls I’d be disappointed.

So you’re going with the definition of troll such that a troll is any commenter who outargues you, huh? Because you’ve been mighty non-responsive to one logical argument after another, bro.

Not only am I not one of the usual trolls. I’m not a troll at all, as I argued upthread and as anyone can see who reads the thread.

You aren’t seriously suggesting that Gav is acting in collusion with Our Lady of the Hanging Apostrophe are you?

If that were the case, more impressive things than your inability to access the article would be happening, I assure you.

Because you’re making it up and wasting good people’s time?

Fuck you Gavin. Really. Have you tried?

Here is the message I get:

IP address blocked!
Your IP address has been blocked because we think you are a robot.

If you see this message, that means you are a real person and not a robot. Please enter the following text into the box below to prove you are a real person.

Earlier this morning, I accessed it no problem.

tasteless: Give it up.

Not only am I not one of the usual trolls. I’m not a troll at all, as I argued upthread and as anyone can see who reads the thread.

Except for, y’know, all of the other people here who have decided you’re a troll.

Seriously, if you have to repeatedly tell everyone how handily you’re winning the argument…

heh-heh.

I didn’t read to the bottom of the message earlier, whoops. If I enter the text they unblock me. I didn’t have to do that this morning.

OK Gavin, you’re no longer a suspect.

Here is the message I get:

IP address blocked!
Your IP address has been blocked because we think you are a robot.

If you see this message, that means you are a real person and not a robot. Please enter the following text into the box below to prove you are a real person.

You know, this is one of those moments I live for every day.

I guess I will give it up. My juvenile high school intellect is no match for arguments like:

“let it go”

“give it up”

“If Gavin says so it must be right”

“What? censor you? How could I have censored you?”

“If several commenters think you’re a troll, then you are a troll”

Later losers.

Kind of sad that your intellect was no match for those, but… there you are.

Umm, you left your tinfoil hat in the lobby…

mikey

“You know, this is one of those moments I live for every day.”

Savor it, bro. My guess is that’s about as good as it gets for you. At least I’m honest.

Mikey:

If you were here I’d leave my boot in your ass too. Uh-oh, broke the rules. Uh, that was satirical, yeah that’s the ticket.

Hee hee. Looks like I found your goat, honey…

mikey

Kind of sad that your intellect was no match for those, but… there you are.

Marita: your keen sense of irony is, well, ironic

Didn’t he say he was leaving?

Just can’t seem to go, I guess. Hmmm… Mikey, I think he digs you.

Hee hee. Looks like I found your goat, honey…

Damn, and that goat used to be a virgin too. Dude, you can keep the goat now.

You know, Marita, A lot of people would think based on your comemnts that, like Marie Jon, the only thing you’re good for is a little ass-to-mouth action. The problem is, in your case, you’re not even good for that because there’s no way in hell I’d ever remove your ball gag.

Wait. I thought you wanted to engage in fisticuffs or something. Now you want to give me your pet goat? Paranoid, mood swings. This dood needs mental health care right away…

mikey

God that’s an entertaining pay-off.

hoo, this is impressive—

Damn, and that goat used to be a virgin too. Dude, you can keep the goat now.

BOW DOWN TO THE SUPERIOR INTELLECT!!

No kidding, Mikey. Inferiority complex, issues with women… He does need help.

Gavin, can you look up his IP for us? We should send the authorities right away.

BOW DOWN TO THE SUPERIOR INTELLECT!!

When in Rome do like the retards do, Simba.

Gavin, can you look up his IP for us? We should send the authorities right away.

Okay.

…Says here he’s a robot.

I thought you wanted to engage in fisticuffs

No dood, that was my boot I was talking about. You’ll have to ask Simba for a fisting.

Hey, just about anyone can be fooled by captcha.

Hey tasteless – the nigerian minister of finance is on line two…

mikey

Hey tasteless – the nigerian minister of finance is on line two…

Thanks, bro. He says he will sell me your mother as a sex slave if I just wire him $5 but I told him the price was too high.

I call fake liberal. Only a conservative could continue to claim victory given the circumstances.

Seriously, retarded sixth-graders have better humor than that. Your handle is apt.

Seriously, retarded sixth-graders have better humor than that.

Retarded sixth-graders. Good one, Simba. But I think you better polish up the act before you take it on the road.

Only a conservative could continue to claim victory given the circumstances

How true, Marita! Your “arguments” have been so masterful, that that is clearly the only explanation.

Well, not the only explanation, but I was trying to be kind.

Yes, Marita, I understand. Why, all anyone has to do is read the thread to see that, while you made one masterful argument after another, all tasteless has done on this thread is use profanity and call people names!

How true!

Don’t forget the part where you pwned yourself by throwing a tantrum at Gavin and accusing him of giving Marie Jon’ your IP address. That was the best part!

Doop-doop-doop. Hi, I’m back.

Holy wow, is this thread still going?

I never accused Gavin. I only said he was a suspect.

This is kind of a new species. The self-pwning troll. Can we get a patent?

In the spirit of the prevailing level of argumentation here at Sadly Blow! I offer you all my final proposition:

Why don’t you all suck this jelly fart out of my ass?

Later losers.

Just to let y’all know: If you click the little rainbowy square @ the very bottom of the page, you are connected to Sitemeter, which shows when & where you came from & went in relation to the site. It shouldn’t be too hard to match that w/ the time of a posted comment, whether or not that commenter went to another site (Renew America, frex) & then the webweasel @ that site will get the full IP address & block it, or treat you as a potential robot, or whatever.
So, tasteless (how appropriate) that may explain how MJ’ or her webweasel got your #.

Oh, but M. Bouffant, no one got his IP address. He just ran into a captcha.

This new fangled technology is just so darned confusing.

Somewhere I saw a great chat transcript in which a script-kiddie barged in on a chat, announced he had a tool to wipe drives remotely using an IP number. Someone gave him the loopback that looks into your own machine and he eventually stopped responding.

Seems too good a story to be true, but then there are threads like this one.

Well, they’ve never tried to captcha (? I’m old & wretched & don’t quite get that) me @ RA. I’m actually a little perturbed that Sitemeter makes that stuff available to any random visitor, though it doesn’t give your entire IP.
And good riddance to (truly) tasteless.

Somewhere I saw a great chat transcript in which a script-kiddie barged in on a chat, announced he had a tool to wipe drives remotely using an IP number. Someone gave him the loopback that looks into your own machine and he eventually stopped responding.

Bash.org?

Gavin, your commentators disappoint me: none, not a single one, has given a hat-tip to the clever title of your post.

I thought it was genius.

If you and TW ever get into a spat, let me know: I’ll hold him down while you deliver the well-deserved kicks to his family jewels.

Preview is going a little funny. We’ll see if this works.

Script-kiddie follies.

Note, however, this cartoon from four years earlier.

HOMER: i want the monogram to say m..a..x..p..o..w.(homer gets inturupted)SALE LADY: sir normally its just the initials that go on the monogramHOMER: Max Powers does not abriviate each letter is just as important as the last. or more important. no no as important