I'd really like to apologize to everyone for not being around this week -- keeping the world safe for compensating use taxes is kicking my ass. I promise I'll pick up slack as soon as I've got a spare braincell.
This is looking a lot like the Justice League sans Superman.
LB!!! You missed my offer to step in as a guest blogger with a piece about "reverse Batson" limitations on a defendant's ability to control peremptory strikes during jury selection. You'd really get a "pick" out of it!
Or maybe something about regional variations in the pronunciation of voir dire? I'm just spitballin' here.
Is nobody even going to discuss Ogged's interpretive dance?
Should have known better than to click on an Apo link while riding public transportation.
If there are not newb loggers, the old ons are still cursed. Witt has a lot of votes.
Before I can give my unreserved endorsement to Witt, I'd need to see the full range of her posting repertoire. She is manifestly superb on the earnest stuff, but frankly I have yet to see the evidence that she is up to standard on cock jokes.
newb loggers
Apprentice lumberjacks?
Apprentice lumberjacks?
Someone has to sit in the barrel at the lumbercamp.
Hey, Ogged, if you're reading this, I lost the new blogger login and password you sent me. Could you email it to me again? Thanks.
13: Just e-mail Shearer, you can send you his.
I thought it was agreed that it'd be a fight to the death for posting privileges?
"There can be only one ... "
16: The first round is you versus d-squared. Apparently, the venue is in front of some pub in the East End of London. Winner takes on gswift, who has the privilege of choosing the weapons.
Well, I just hope we get this ironed out soon, 'cause I'm sitting on a heap of concealed carry posts that aren't getting any fresher.
Holy smokes, it's weird to catch up on old threads and find yourself being discussed. For the record, Walt clearly has it right.
In other news, if we can't have Standpipe, I want DominEditrix. Are you listening, o blog masters?
Are you listening, o blog masters?
No.
Apo is clearly just sulking because I don't click on his links. Becks will listen to me!
newb loggers
I propose using "newbl* oggers".
*: Pronounced "nubile"
10: Obvs. there will be a division of labor among the new bloggers, as with the old. Witt will work with LB on policy stuff. Heebie and Apo will handle the cock joke side. Bitch will help Ben in the little bitch department.
So, so awesome. Bloggers have Larry Sinclair arrested at the National Press Club on outstanding warrants. Also: Dave Weigel's account of the arrest.
most probably not performance art, but poetry translation project
i can understand ogged i guess, when one is so involved in something, blog or any other project, then there comes the time when suddenly all things loose their urgency, one reaches the threshold to be overwhelmed and feels so burnt out
after some time he'll get disengaged from the project and will see again and according to the archives it happened several times, so it's all just natural
i think he is not reading the blog, maybe can't bring himself for now, coz if you break a habit you break it
just it's good to know that he still exists somewhere
Just give me and Shearer the keys already and we'll put this place out of its misery.
Obvs. there will be a division of labor among the new bloggers, as with the old. Witt will work with LB on policy stuff.
Be that as it may, the commendable goal of diversity cannot become an excuse to compromise on certain standards. LB may have skewed toward earnest policy posts, but her cock-joke credentials were never in doubt.
Who's Larry Sinclair? One of the n00bs?
I think people here may have missed the deeper point of the performance. You may want to watch it a second time.
Edited out of Princess Bride:
Never trust a ginger when clicking links.
She is the most trusted person in America. If you've lost BphD, you've lost the site.
29: I thought the holocaust references were reasonably tasteful, as these things go.
If you've lost BphD, you've lost the site.
Unfogged has survived the banning of BitchPhD previously.
At this point, I'll be disappointed if the entire cast of Fafblog doesn't arrive. Only the Medium Lobster can save this blog now.
Still no new bloggers?
I'm off to Canada to find some newb loggers.
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I can construct Obama's justification for doing this myself, so don't bother. It certainlyus an idea how much "change" (whatever that is) we can hope for.
My fundamental political principle is unshaken and unshakable.
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34: They're lurkers. We should be able to pull this off.
38: by what, some kind of a seance? To the lobsterphone!
37: My fundamental political principle is "you get to be in charge by being an evil turd."
15: you s/b he, obvs
Well, I guess that diversity fad has run its course after all.
37. Ouch. Greenwald, as usual, draws the correct lesson:
Obama needs pressure, criticism, checks, and real scrutiny just like anyone else in power in order to keep him accountable, responsive, and faithful to the principles he claims are the ones driving him.
6: I thought the letter boxing was an interesting choice.
37: "certainly gives us". I blame the new, doubtfully-competent, intermittently-malicious hegemons of Unfogged.
People briefly celebrated when Communism collapsed, but the Russian Mafia showed them that there are things worse than Communism.
If I ever find out that ogged put us through this turmoil because he's been pussywhipped by BPL, I'll... I'll... I'll not be terribly surprised, actually.
37: Yeah but pragmatic, necessary, need to win, don't back losers, such a nice-looking man couldn't possibly be like those other politicians, etc, etc.
"you get to be in charge by being an evil turd."
Except at Unfogged, where the chaste and virtuous rise to the top, like so much cream on the milk of cultural analysis.
"Scum rises to the top", as Dylan Thomas observed.
DT could be hilarious when he was in the mood.
I'm off to Canada to find some newb loggers.
Already grotesquely over-represented.
Obama needs pressure, criticism, checks, and real scrutiny just like anyone else in power in order to keep him accountable, responsive, and faithful to the principles he claims are the ones driving him.Well, yeah. Not long ago, I watched an interview with Cornel West where he remarked in passing "Of course, the day Brother Obama walks into the White House is the day I become his harshest critic." Now leaving aside the likelihood of West ever becoming Obama's harshest critic, that's just the position I'd expect anyone with a drop of integrity to take.
Its so cute when Councilman West calls people "Brother."
37: Greenwald is so great. And I think he, firedoglake et. al have been more effective on actually influencing Congress on telecom immunity than any blog has been on legislation since Marshall & social security.
As for the post, b's right, & the commenters would all go hang out at her or another regular's blog if we had any self respect.
or another regular's blog
It's turtles all the way down, Katherine.
Right, because bitch's blog is anything like anything unfogged is or has ever been like.
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Couple of Bear Stearns guys have been arrested
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People briefly celebrated when Communism collapsed, but the Russian Mafia showed them that there are things worse than Communism.
To counteract people's nostalgia for the Soviet Union, there are now films being made by nationalist filmmakers which portray it in an exaggeratedly negative light. I saw that film and it was unbelievably awful, me not being the intended audience. I didn't need hyperbole to dispel my nostalgia for the Soviet Union, thanks.
Those turtles aren't that big or scary, if you ask me.
Not apo's, he's partially responsible.
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In a few minutes here the celtics rally rolls through. Any thoughts on likely riot-inducing things to yell?
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Right, because bitch's blog is anything like anything unfogged is or has ever been like.
If we all migrated over there and invaded the comments, it would be.
63: I am completely responsible and respectable.
Any thoughts on likely riot-inducing things to yell?
The n-word?
Hey Mary Catherine,
Would you mind e-mailing me? I have some Canada questions.
68: iiiiinteresting. Hey, it's boston, I bet I could get a whole chant going.
Apo is not legally competent, however. "Responsible" to him means not throwing his food and not having sex in church during the service. And mostly he does fine.
Would you mind e-mailing me? I have some Canada questions.
Really BG. For B's sake, if nothing else, this should be an ATM.
65: "THIS IS LARRY BIRD! I WANTED TO LET Y'ALL KNOW WHY I DIDN'T SHOW UP AT ANY OF THE GAMES! IT'S 'CAUSE THE WHITE GUYS DIDN'T GET ANY MINUTES!"
72: what, throw his food and then have to chase it down so he can eat? No thank you, sir.
have to chase it down so he can eat
A friend of mine lived on an opossum highway. Once during a flooding rain he turned on his yard light at night and saw about a dozen of them lined up on his fence keeping dry.
So Sifu, have you decided on 74? liveblog it.
Any thoughts on likely riot-inducing things to yell?
Just yell "Kobe!"
All due respect to B, no disrespect intended, but I've found the best part of this blog to be the commenters, so why do we need ogged for that? It's not like the comment section ever stays on topic for more than about ten comments anyway.
Oh, and my newspaper said that the GOP is looking for about 5K more volunteers for this years convention in St Paul. They need 6K, have only gotten 1K so far.
So here's the deal. I am confident I can remain awake during the training sessions and I am also confident I can pass the security background check because, um, you know I leave all my 'quirks' here.
So I am considering volunteering but only if I get some really awesome ideas for mischief. Obviously I will not do anything illegal or even vulgar or even too over the wall rude but that still leaves the field pretty open.
So start thinking about this. There is still time. And yes, I would wear a silly costume if it didn't break my conditions above.
I had a dream about the new posters. I don't remember who all of them were except that one was bitchphd The twist was that they had all added a few extra letters and scrambled the spelling a bit. I think that asilon was one, and she'd scrambled it to something completely impossible to decipher like, alison.
Just wear a Larry Craid Tshirt one day, and a Duke Cunningham Tshirt the next, and so on.
but I've found the best part of this blog to be the commenters, so why do we need ogged for that?
This is true, in substantial part. But. To be fair, Ogged's role as the host of this party was not insignificant in facilitating that.
Interesting: the sale of Wm F Buckley's home is being handled by Barak Realty. $24 million.
only if I get some really awesome ideas for mischief
Do you have any communicable diseases?
Any thoughts on likely riot-inducing things to yell?
WHO WANTS TO SEX RAJAN RONDO?
some Canada questions
What are Canada's contingency plans for American immigration following a McCain victory?
Does recent strength in the Canadian dollar portend cross-boarder gas hoarding?
Does the proposed CSI-Canada teevee show raise plausibility concerns?
CSI-Canada
He cut off her fingers, eh? What's that aboot?
only if I get some really awesome ideas for mischief
It isn't mischief, exactly, but you could just try the HST approach to presenting yourself:
"Have yourun for office?" I snapped at one of them. "No! I thought not, goddamnit! You don't have the look of a man who's been to the well. I can see it in your face!"
He was taken aback by this charge. His mouth flapped for a few seconds, then he blurted out: "What about you? What office did you run for?"
I smiled gently. "Sheriff, my friend, I ran for Sheriff out in Colorado -- and I lost by just a hair. Because the liberals put the screws to me! Right! Are you surprised?"
He was definitely off balance
...
The never came right out and said it, but I could see they they were uncomfortable at the prospect of all three network TV cameras looking down on their spontaneous Nixon Youth demonstration and zeroing in -- for their own perverse reasons -- on a weird looking, 35-year-old speed free with half his hair burned off from overindulgence, wearing a big blue McGovern button on his chest, carrying a tall cup of "Old Milwaukee" and shaking his fist at John Chancellor up in the NBC booth -- screaming: "You dirty bastard! You'll pay for this, by God! We'll rip your goddamn teeth out! KILL! KILL! You're number just came up, you communist son of a bitch!"
really awesome ideas for mischief
Could Tweety phreak the teleprompter? McCain seems to read whatever's on it pretty uncritically, so I could see him building up to an applause line of "I love my country, I cherish its heritage, I love its people, and most of all, I love its young, hairless boys."
re: 90
Heh, I used to think that was a total stereotype; most Canadians I know don't talk like that, and then I met a Canadian grad student who really did talk like the worst stereotypical comedy Canadian, ever.
ogged also had a light touch for defusing dispute or redirecting tedium, which will be missed in the inevitable overpopulated chaos that will come with new bloggers Erin Moran and Clipse.
Do you have any communicable diseases?
Why yes, yes I do. Would you care for some?
ogged also had a light touch for defusing dispute or redirecting tedium
Oh yeah?! PROVE IT!
92 made me chuckle merrily.
Isn't there a similar joke in a Michael Keaton movie?
I join those who aren't terribly worried that Unfogged can't survive without ogged. Not that ogged wasn't great and central (Hi ogged! I know you're reading this.) But Obi Wan taught us well and his presence will always be with us. I'm sure we'll be okay.
Hey Pantene, if you're around, would you e-mail me at mypseud at geemail? Thanks.
See, I'm already spreading the love.
It certainlyus an idea how much "change" (whatever that is) we can hope for.
Good lord, you didn't actually fall for that, did you Emerson? We know better.
I'm really enjoying this conversation I'm having with myself.
I'm really enjoying this conversation I'm having with myself.
That's the stuff new bloggers are made of.
It's sadly true. Humor and frivoloty over at my blog seem to have died somewhere around the blog's halfway point, lifespan-wise. I don't know what happened, other than I stopped being depressed and bitter? Depressed bitterness is funny, apparently. Who knew.
Maybe it's not newb loggers, but nude bloggers. Apo could probably come up with a few. He may even be one, for all I know.
"I love my country, I cherish its heritage, I love its people, and most of all, I love its young, hairless boys."
Some friends and I never executed our plan to do that to Reagan. The key line was to be, "Why, just the other day I put a little boy's penis in my mouth."
93: Obviously you were willing to tolerate a token Canadian who had taught himself Scottish ways, smashing peopel faces, and shooting heroin, etc., but a real Canadian was too much for you. And by "much" I mean "bland and sensible".
109: b Depressed bitterness is funny, apparently. Who knew.
Oh yeah, pain is funny. Other people's pain. See Dodgeball for example.
Mysterious new Canadian death cult
Passe, boring Canadian death cult
109: Actually, you might be conflating causation - didn't the depression lessen when you left Tiny Town? And didn't that change coincide with all sorts of other changes that changed how/when/why you blogged?
I suspect that it's when you were debanned here, and used up all your frivolity ATM.*
* Not really.
From the link in 113:
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, seeking to allay fears of a serial killer, says there is no evidence the feet were cut off.
Wait a minute, what?
Feet naturally detatch themselves after a good long while, apparently. I'd rather not have known that, but too late now.
Feet naturally detatch themselves after a good long while, apparently.
Or so Dudley Do-Right would have you believe.
Y'all should start calling this blog "Unfogged: Other Voices", in homage to the album that the remaining Doors made after Jim Morrison died.