Boy, was I steamed about that thing I read in the paper today. Just when you think they've reached the limit of outrageousness, they go pull something like this. I shouldn't be surprised, really, considering their cynical attempt to do that other thing. And they think we'll forget their known affiliation with Slate.com, whose forum once included somebody who posted a link to that book review site that published an article by that guy whose signature file included a link to the notorious "I.Love.Hitler.and.Stalin.org." 'Nuff said.
posted by The Leo at 11:23 AM
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You know, Leo, I'm with you on this. I also heard, and have decided to believe, a rumor that they were parrotting (and poorly) even more outrageous remarks made by unnamed persons who should have known better -- if, that is, we can expect so much of anyone, anymore! I'm so steamed, I think I also must spend the rest of the day curled safely between "frog" and "alligator."
jem -- I will ask you to please abide by the strict rules about FLAMERS, TROLLS, SPAMMERS, HALFLINGS and ELDAR, which I'm sure are posted somewhere hereabouts, or in the Wikipedia.
christopher hager -- Welcome to The Leo! It is true that I did once lean towards frog, but, after 9/11, is that position really tenable anymore?
I will say, however, that I'm more of a paleo-gator than a neo-gator, the former not being so beholden to the religious left, and which, if my natural history museum is to be trusted, are creatures that are massively huger than the one I saw that Australian guy wresteling, and had like more gigantic teeth.
Dear obfuscator -- Welcome to Leo! Please refrain from using words like "gratuitous" and from making DeLilloean references, as I am only 5 months old. In any case, I'm sure you'll agree that attempting to qualify the collective unconscious from the landscape of your conscious mind can only lead to a fatal aporia.
Leo,
I regret to inform you that your ill-advised "decision" to join the ranks of bloggers will render it impossible for you to get tenure.
You may, however, join the ranks of blogofascists such as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Duncan Black, whose refusal cheerfully (and yet with steely-eyed determination and purpose) to accept the truth as made available by Fox News in our Dear Leader's Glorious Regime is currently destroying what was once a great nation.
Or something like that.
Now, where did I put that half-eaten pickle? Oh my! Well, I'll just have to get a fresh one...
Dear Michael Bryson -- Thank you for posting!
I was heartened to read in one of your links one of my all-time favorite quotations from Santayana -- whose "Black Magic Woman" will never leave my iPod -- who said, "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
These bons mots couldn't be more aproposes, and I'd like to remind everyone in this somewhat diffuse discussion that we are in danger of forgetting the central aim and purpose of this blog.
It may even be that some of you are already unclear about what that purpose is. For my part, the focus is so clear to me that it will generate no suspicions to the contrary if I ask each of you for a compelling, or, at least, plausible synopsis of that purpose.
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[...] and while his almost autistic fixation on fishies and shiny plastic rings can be unnerving - if admirably so - the pointed critiques of Washington lobbyists and itchy diapers make the Wretched Burrito a force to be reckoned with. [...]
"[...] and while his almost autistic fixation on fishies and shiny plastic rings can be unnerving - if admirably so - the pointed critiques of Washington lobbyists and itchy diapers make the Wretched Burrito a force to be reckoned with. [...]"
While I concede the diaper point, I'll thank you not to refer to Washington Lobbyists in this forum. Not refer to them, I mean to say, in any negative way; for, as the supreme court recently affirmed, money = speech, and stifling the free flow of money from lobbyist to elected official is tantamount to stuffing enormous corn cobs into the speech holes of those same lobbyists.
"stifling the free flow of money from lobbyist to elected official is tantamount to stuffing enormous corn cobs into the speech holes of those same lobbyists."
I heartily agree. Henceforth, we will have to be sure to restrict ourselves to stuffing enormous corn cobs into the specifically non-speech related holes of any and all Washington lobbyists.
"we will have to be sure to restrict ourselves to stuffing enormous corn cobs into the specifically non-speech related holes of any and all Washington lobbyists."
This did tickle my little ribs; and if we take this program to heart in a sufficiently vigorous way, our K-street cobb-jobs might venture even unto the ticklish ribs of Delaybramoff, or at least unto the spleen.
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