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Re: The Wolfson post

JT (Chicago) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:13:24 -0000

Great image Breukelyne. Hilarious.

Re: The Wolfson post

Staash — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:07:51 -0000

I wouldn't get too worked up about it.

Many of the commentators on theatlantic.com use the resident bloggers' posts as a vessel to act out long-standing arguments / personality conflicts. It really doesn't matter what the topic is, as evidenced by Ms. McArdle's more-or-less innocuous post deriding the Obama-as-the-Antichrist-conspiracy-theory theory. Imagine the hyperbole and showmanship of pro-wrestling acted-out by nerdy, anonymous introverts over a digital pipe, trading ten-cent words instead of hay-makers. Your blog doesn't set the tone, it's just the venue.

Re: The Wolfson post

Gayle — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:30:14 -0000

Yes, indeed--

Once people expressed opinions and laid out facts conflicting with the Oborg, it was time to close the thread.

Censorship is freedom.

Re: The Wolfson post

Gayle — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:22:19 -0000

Yes, indeed--

Once people expressed opinions and laid out facts conflicting with the Oborg, it was time to close the thread.

Censorship is freedom.

Re: The Wolfson post

John Henry — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:14:34 -0000

Reality is a figment of everyone elses imagination for those guys. Nothing is real unless they say its real. Words mean what they say they mean. It is disgusting. I'm so glad they lost.

Re: The Wolfson post

JC — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:03:27 -0000

Peep, Breukelyne,

LOL! That had me chuckling - good laugh for the aftrnoon, thanks!

Re: The Wolfson post

Breukelyne — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:24:06 -0000

LOL. Your old blog felt like an afternoon eating coffee cake on the porch.

This is like.... about 30 kids staring at the giant punchbowl of M+Ms and Reese's peanut butter cups on the table, waiting for the adult supervision to go to the bathroom. You really can't leave us alone with that stuff unless you don't mind 30 kids destroying your living room while on a sugar high.

Re: The Wolfson post

peep — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:04:19 -0000

Ta, that was highly irresponsible!

That was like if you were hired as a babysitter and you left an 8 year-old and a 6 year-old alone to share a piece of cake.

Of course when you came back there would be blood and tears and frosting all over the kitchen.

Re: The Wolfson post

Sorn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:56:40 -0000

Opinions are like elbows most people have more than one and they are poorly equiped to stand up under stress.

It happens unfortunately the civil part of civic discourse is rapidly being lost.

You get mad points for being on top of things though.

Re: The Wolfson post

Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:49:19 -0000

I'm missing something. What are you apologizing for again?

Re: The Wolfson post

jack — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:49:07 -0000

dude. how were you supposed to know that dozens of puma trolls and right-wing poseurs who had never taken an interest in your blog previously, would suddenly invade your thread at the first sign of any anti-hillary sentiment?

fuck 'em.

Re: The Wolfson post

Incertus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:42:21 -0000

You may not believe this, but that one was fairly tame compared to a lot of them elsewhere.