I was reading through some of what I missed in Althouse and the jabs and questions were flying fast and furious. Some of the commenters who post here were mentioned and there was some discussion of who had left and why.I just feel lucky that I am able to offend each and every one of you at least once a day, and if you stick around it must be because we are doing something right. Thanks.
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Hey I think I am getting better at shameless ploys to get the good commenters to post here. Especially you dolls.
For the dudes, all you need is some more Adrienne.
I have yet to be offended by you.
Ok, well you're a Giant's fan you and you have Peyton's sibling running your team so that's about as close to being offensive as you can be.
More Adrienne!
Troop, I recently saw "Foxy Brown" for the first time.
Yowza.
Almost as good as Adrienne.
Where were the comments @ Althouse?
Which thread?
Darcy, see my comment in the garage thread below.
I think the comments were in the New Years eve live-blogging post.
Thanks, cl. How's the studies coming? ;-)
Troop is no stranger to Pam Grier's charms.
Ohh...I found the goods over there, chickenlittle.
Interesting. I thought Althouse took too much grief for voting for Obama after her "Cruel Neutrality" stuff.
Actually...especially with distance from this election. Geez, McCain was a bad candidate.
Sorry Darcy about not getting back sooner. I've been occupied with my studies. I'll have get back to you tomorrow AM.
No worries, chickenlittle! You know I am working on my patience.
So far, so good. :)
I come here for the insults (and the babes, of course). Bald-faced no-holds-barred insults... where the cruelty is not neutral, the compassion is dosed out appropriately, and the guinness is not watered down with white wine (plech!).
Poor Althouse - intermittently burdened with jealous cry baby idiotarians from both sides of the multidiversity aisle. She is nice to a fault and not fully appreciated for her niceness.
She is also funny as hell. She has great comedic timing and is fearlessly self-mocking. She should visit us over here sometime where we take and give back punches without apology. We appreciate tough right-wing liberals here - the type who don't whine and get all debbie downer on you. It's the pussies who can't take it like a man, on both sides, who we can't abide, right?
She'd like it here.
Am I right? I am right.
Am I right? I am right.
Althouse seems to be pushing the cat and pussy theme herself right now. Am I right?
Well it seems that all you crazy guys can get along. Only the really cool dolls post at Trooper York so they can all get along.
Where did everybody go?
I heard it's so crowded there that no one goes there anymore. Heh.
I think everyone left for South Florida. 81 and sunny today.
Poor Althouse - intermittently burdened with jealous cry baby idiotarians from both sides of the multidiversity aisle. She is nice to a fault and not fully appreciated for her niceness.
This is very much true. But I definitely perceived the "cruel neutrality" thing as a clever marketing ploy. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, all bloggers want traffic; but I can see how some people might perceive it as her just bullshitting them.
No way could Althouse enthusiastically support a democrat for very long leading up to an election and maintain her popularity. The vast majority of her commenters are right-leaning, and enjoy her regular skewering of the left. Face it: there is very, very little criticism of conservatives on her blog.
"Cruel Neutrality" was a necessary device, or Alhouse the Blog would have become a ghost town. Only a very few devotees would have stuck around.
I could be wrong, of course, that's just my feeling.
Right on the money Knox. I always knew that Althouse was really a lefty and meeting her in person a few times really cemented that feeling. She is really an academic liberal artsy fartsy type who bears all of the attitudes of her ilk. The very first comment I made on her blog was political and was deleted and caused a big hubbub with accusations flying back and forth. So I decided to more or less keep it light and fluffy and not put my personal political view too bluntly. I enjoy talking with people of opposing views and plenty of the very liberal posters are wonderful people like Madison Man, Beth, Zach,montana urban legend and John Stodder. Some are well meaning usefull idiots like Eli Blake are just sadly mistaken. And some are unredeemable douches like Freder, Alphaliberal and Loafing Oaf. It takes all kinds to make a world.
I will still post political stuff here and there but mostly it's yucks.
I go to Althouse mostly for the political stuff. Her eclectic / legalese posts usually don't interest me.
I don't surf the internets to read 1000 word dissetions of someone's soundbite or legal rulling. It is just not my cup of tea.
Mostly I like her well-informed commenters who can snap off a good argument or joke. I wish Ann would comment more - she used to a few years ago.
It's been a little different there since Fen, Revenant, Vic and Ruth Ann have gone missing. But there are no guarantees and stuff happens and stuff changes.
Trooper, Meade, Palladian, Pogo, Seven are always quick with a good retort or funny comment. Blake is scary smart when he points out nicely someone's inconsistency or idiocy.
The babes like Knox, DBQ,Victoria, Darcy are smart and poignant plus they keep the place from smelling like a locker room.
They are however balanced out by old reliable Titus who can be relied on for a pungent comment everyday.
LOL, AJ!
knox said, "I could be wrong, of course, that's just my feeling."
Or I could be wrong, knox, although it would be only the second time ever since 1955.
Two things I've come to know about Althouse: She is fastidiously not a liar or a manipulator. This is especially impressive as she is a lawyer.
Of course, that would be even more impressive if she were a lawyer who actually practiced law but I suspect her inability to lie may have been part of what led her into academia - I don't really know.
The other thing is, her sense of ironic humor is as developed as anyone's I've ever seen. Her cruelty is real but she dishes it honestly in any deserving direction including her own.
Her so-called neutrality may have been a device to keep or gain traffic but I doubt it. I think she truly hates partisanship and the stupidity it fosters and she mocks it, sometimes even at her own expense, whenever she gets the chance.
I voted against Obama because, if ever he will be, he is, now, not yet qualified for the job. I wanted to vote against McCain too because I think he falls far short of being worthy of the office. But I had to vote for someone and my guy lost. I don't hold it against anyone including Althouse. Before and above anything else, I am an American. I want my country to survive and prosper. So I don't hold people's votes against them, only their perceived stupidity. I hope Obama becomes a successful moderate leader who makes good judgements. In my view, Bush got the most critical judgements right. I now support Obama in doing likewise.
But back to Althouse... On more than a few occasions, I've seen Althouse accept warranted criticism with grace and good humor. Try zinging her though, or anyone she cares about with an unfair attack and, oh baby, that woman, Ann Althouse will make the unsuspecting attacker pay a painful price. She is far more than a blogger or wordsmith. She is a warrior and her art of writing -- oftentimes comedic and other times deadly serious -- is her sword. It slays in every direction and pierces any form of pomposity or pretentiousness within reach. She is the queen and if someone wants to strike her, they had better be prepared beyond just wanting to bee, themselves, queen.
One more thing... If one reads her closely and obsessively, as I'm afraid I have done more than once when work has gotten slow, one will likely discover a truly sweet soul. She protects it, as anyone should, but I'm not embarrassed to admit, when she does reveal it, I for one find her to be irresistibly endearing.
You could look at "cruel neutrality" as a "marketing ploy" but the other way of looking at it is, "Boy, will this be boring if I make up my mind 9 months in advance and turn this into a promotional blog." And she did say clearly that she was "leaning" toward Obama, with no real indication that anything was going to change her mind.
Anyway, Althouse is always more critical of the left because she's a lefty. The right-leaning blogs I like are the same way.
Exactly, blake. She seems to be one of the few on the left who is willing to do that.
But you see her problem is when she says what she really feels in her heart, the right wing guys jump on it with both feet and she get's smacked around and starts to get defensive and whiney. Perfect example the recent Burris must be seated because he is a black guy. The one I remember best was the teacher with the teddy bear. She presented a viewpoint and got slaughtered and had to fall back on the old "Oh I was just presenting a viewpoint, I don't necessarily feel that way."
It's a thin line between love and hate ya know?
Maybe. But hey man, if love is blind and putting on my glasses might cause her to mistake me for just one more fay intellectual, just call me Mr. Magoo .
Great stuff, you guys.
One thing is for sure - most, if not all posters here came from Althouse. She really does lure the best commenters on the net, I think. That's a gift.
Trooper's got a gift too, of course.
And thank you AJ!
She really does lure the best commenters on the net, I think. That's a gift.
You are right, and the fact that so many of them seem genuinely nice and likable says good things about her, as well.
As my absence from that blog has been mentioned, I'll say that I have not commented on Althouse since October and there are other reasons than the ones you're mentioning to explain my absence. One of them has little to do with the blog hostess and has much to do with an analysis of my own life, where I spend my time, how I spend my time and what sort of cyber-detritus I want attached to my name. In short, my own personal holiness required I cease commenting on that blog. I should hope here of all places, folks would respect that I wore the uniform of our country proudly and was willing to die for the rights we hold dear, including free speech, and the right to a secret ballot and the right to vote as one sees fit.
It's really more about going two-point-seven seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu.
Whew! I was afraid it was something I said.
"two-point-seven seconds"
Way to ride 'm, cowgirl!
Meade: You may want to google that last line to get the full message.
One thing is for sure - most, if not all posters here came from Althouse. She really does lure the best commenters on the net, I think. That's a gift.
That's an awesome gift, Darcy, one so very rare online in political blogs which tend to veer from uptight to parochial -- and though I agree with Knox' characterisation of Althouse the blogger most of all (especially about the cruel neutrality thingie, which broke my camel's back) I think most of us are deeply thankful that blog, and its contents, brought us all together.
Look, we all know Professor A. was a liberal -- you'd have to be blind to think that she was going to be "conservative" the rest of her life, just because she once voted for Bushy.
What I find trips over the boundaries is her acceptance of being perceived as "right-wing" -- the Conservative Diva voting, and all that.
Before 2008, I didn't mind. After the blogposts turned sour about McCain/Palin (almost forcedly, though -- as if she were making a strange effort), I had to walk away for the present.
It's like finding a salon you used to frequent suddenly inhospitable and alien.
It happens. It's a shame it happened with my number 1 internet hub, though.
Great to see you all here, BTW. :)
Cheers,
Victoria
I think we all have buttons that get pushed from time-to-time, or at least a "eh, why bother?" kind of feeling when you get pounded with a constant message you disagree with. I've actually been reading Althouse lots longer than I've been posting and I've quit reading a number of times for months.
Online communities are fleeting.
Hey Victoria,
So glad to find you here too. You know I love Sundries to death too.
Ruth Anne Adams said...
Meade: You may want to google that last line to get the full message.
For you, my darling, anything.
But in all sober seriousness, Ruth Anne, for as long as I am alive, you will have at least one countryman who honors, admires, and is profoundly grateful to you and to what you have made your life represent which is the best of American love of country and duty to something larger than oneself -- not only in your military service -- but, in my opinion and just as importantly, in your dedication to your husband and children and family and God. I'm sure I speak for a number of Yorkies here when I say: you really are the best of the best. And thank you.
Toss in your bawdy rough and tumble sense of humor and your quick punniness (along with your natural womanly beauty, of course), and can anyone really blame me for having, for the last several years, an innocent school-boy pre-post-doctoral crush on a married woman?
They can? Well screw em then. I'm keeping my crush.
Meade: And I you.
Yorkies? I thought we were Troopies! But I like Yorkies much better.
Ruth Anne: First of all, your cheese ball was a smashing success!
Thank you so much! I was quite the darling of my family yesterday thanks to you. Hee. :)
Secondly, I don't know what happened at Althouse, nor do I need to know. I do feel completely certain that your reasons for your absence from there are absolutely sound and principled. I admire you. And I want you to know, as the very proud daughter of a WWII vet, that I value very highly people like you who have served this country.
I thank you for that service.
And *waving* to Victoria! Nice to "see" you here.
So glad to find you here too. You know I love Sundries to death too.
Hey CL! :)
I am insistent on people not perceiving my absence as a slam. I've bent over double to stress that point at Althouse (not very successfully, I suspect).
Sundries is a niche blog, and traffic per se doesn't interest me. I prefer to surround myself with those whose brains I respect, or even the occasionally miscreant (like Trooper), than just about anything else.
High drama is not for me, alas. I prefer the scenic side roads, to the highway.
*waves again to Darcy*
Cheers,
Victoria
Yay, Darcy! As we say in Wisconsin: What a friend we have in cheeses.
And thanks to your father for his service and to you for your kind words.
That's so cute, Ruth Anne. I'll have to remember that!
And thank you, too.
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