September 20, 2007
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:How you know you're an A-list pundit
When people go bats**t with ad hominem. No more traveling commercial, you fly your own private troll! A sample:
Scott is, as we now know, was Megan's college bf. We also know that he dumped her right about the same time her college band got sick of dealing with her. (Yes, I realize it was 100% her decision in both cases and she still gets calls from both parties begging her to take them back and she just lets them pretend to have been responsible to salvage their piddling egos.)
Megan remains unhappy with Scott, however, to the point she quasi-Godwins him with this: "Osama Bin Laden is starting to remind me of my college boyfriend, whose brooding anger at the white male bourgeois power structure quickly disintegrated into anger at the non-Scott power structure."
Lady, Scott had the good taste to stop being in a relationship with you. That means he's better than The Atlantic, which also means he's better than Bin Laden. Radical claim, I know, but I think the logic of saying The Atlantic > Bin Laden is, even with your employment there, unimpeachable.
Now, it's true he also had the bad taste to be in a relationship with you, but let's not judge people for mistakes they've probably learned from.
Later he criticizes her grammar. Don't miss it.
September 12, 2007
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Comment Spam Attack
This small excerpt from the log should give you a sense of what's happening. IP addresses are changing pretty rapidly, as are the text strings. One common denominator - All the links go to the "ca" subdomain of geocities.com.
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From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Hey look, It's me! More
Hey look, It's me!
More than perhaps any other American political group, libertarians have suffered the blows of caricature. For many people, the term evokes an image of a scraggly misfit living in the woods with his gun collection, a few marijuana plants, some dogeared Ayn Rand titles, and a battered pickup truck plastered with bumper stickers reading "Taxes = Theft" and "FDR Was A Pinko."
Well, this might be:
many wonder why the state should be involved in the marriage business at all, a question that has come to the fore in the debate over gay marriage
September 11, 2007
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:In Which Megan's Right Wing Conspiracy Membership is Confirmed
Second, Jon talks at some length about the media, and in particular about the Republican ability to get journalists to harp endlessly on supposed character flaws of Democrats, while their own candidates get a free pass. He emphasizes the right-wing echo chamber, but there’s more to it than that. It’s also – as I can report from my own experience – a result of asymmetrical intimidation. Quite simply, if you point out character flaws in a conservative, there will be an all-out effort, involving major media as well as blogs and talk radio, to discredit and ruin you, personally. This just doesn’t happen on the other side.
Asymmetrical Intimidation! Why didn't we think of that? But he could have said "..with 2X4s".
Horse Hockey. I'll bet you a few gajillion 'Bushisms of the day' the media will find a comically unflattering handle for any politician or candidate and treat it like the gift that keeps on giving. Sort of like, you know, "shrill" or something. And the folks on the other side of the aisle will go batshit impugning the motives of those who use it. I mean...move on, for cryin' out loud.
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Arriving at the PATH station
Arriving at the PATH station always prompts a memory or two of 9/11. Today, of course, reminders are everywhere. As you walk up out of Ground Zero in the PATH station today, chewing on your own memories of the day, the first thing you are confronted with is...Truthers.
I'm not sure why it angers me, but it did.
The view from my window is Zuccotti Park (who knew that was Zucotti Park?), where today's ceremonies will be held. Right now some sort of horn is blowing. Whatever it is, it's not easy to maintain a pitch.