I see Mr Greenwald is still quite deliberately using inaccessible content in the form of pictures evidently quoting text from his "sources" to subvert the Americans with Disabilities Act and common decency,

My eyes are aging so, while I may not have your degree of difficulty, I can certainly empathize with it. However, this text in Glenn's post (especially the bolded bit):

Here's just a small sample to convey the rancid taste of that Memo (click on images to enlarge):

means exactly what it says.

If you, yourself are blind, then I'm not sure it's Glenn's fault that technology hasn't yet been found (as far as I know) to translate a post into braille.

Do you have a suggestion as to how your needs might be accommodated? No one here, least of all Glenn, is interested in excluding part of an audience that needs to become much wider than it already is.

...the stuffed animal I want?

Or are we only doing stickers.

If it's the former, I'll take the Cheney doll that croaks "Fuck yoo!" when you pull it's string (we're having a bonfire at Pa's Pond this weekend).

If it's the latter, then I want one of a flying pig. It should be pink. ;-}

I believe that was Junior.

Thanks for linking to that article. I don't agree with every last thing he posited but there is much food for thought.

It was interesting to note, when looking at the results of his poll, that on a site he considers "staunchly loyalist" to Obama, 68% of the readers of the diary voted for this:

I am anti war and I am prepared to ally myself with anybody standing up to American militarism and atrocities

But maybe that is due to readership self-selection of which articles they read.

p.s. that is the category I put myself in and voted for.

Thanks for the post on the Iroquois Confederacy. I remember reading about that at some distant time, but it was nice to see the particulars. What irony that we owe so much in our founding documents/structures to a society we destroyed even as we were creating a new one to replace it. Makes one wonder why everything has to be a zero-sum situation.

I found this bit interesting in light of the conversation here yesterday:

The Iroquois' equivalent of a Supreme Court is the Women's Councils, which settle disputes and judge legal violations.

If I could travel back in time and ask a question, it would be about how the Iroquois came to develop this particular institution. One hopes that a Justice Sotomayor, joined with Justice Ginsburg, will bring a bit more of that sort of wisdom to the highest court once again, or at least balance the pompous egos on the right a little more (I'd love to see someone poke a stick at Scalia - that's one gasbag that could do with a little deflating).

Welcome to the comment thread and I hope you continue to post here. Maybe we can get the "brutal" quotient average down a bit with your participation. ;-}

It's probably late enough to say this......

Please - make more discreet use of your superpowers. We don't want your enemies to catch on to what they're up against.

Unless they can find some Greenwaldonite, they're up Shit Creek without a paddle. ;-}

In spite of what they all said about Chertoff, there is a place at the table for gut feelings. ;-}

But her hubby stole my beer at Schooner's Wharf.

You're making that up.

You're just mad that that place in Costa Rica isn't the same as what you remember (not that I blame you). ;-}

I was a member of the Compuserve's garden forum.

Me too! Did I call you names? =:-)

I doubt I'd remember.

That was a great place to spend time. I have to credit that place with providing a lot of the knowledge I've since applied in my own garden.

I really believed that the friends I had there would somehow come back around, so I wasn't entirely surprised when I ran into Jean in KW. There are just some folks you have deep and abiding connections with.

Circle of life and all that...

No one really gets hurt, and a pasifist can enjoy the battle knowing no blood is shed.

pac·i·fist

strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war

I know you don't like Merriam Webster but is there a subspecies of 'pacifist' that is opposed only to war, yet relishes conflict? Is blood the only thing that matters?

I would try to be a little more tolerant if others would make the same effort; but you see how well the no ad hominem for just 30 days is going. Not so much they all say.

I am making that effort here, but you say I am attacking. As for the 'No Ad Hominem Initiative', well, it looks to me like it failed on a voice vote. We're not obliged (unless Glenn asks us) to adopt your suggestion, though I appreciate the fact that you were offering things up for consideration.

I asked because I wanted to know and I see no reason that the above questions can not be answered. So, by all means, tell me what you think.

Well, good luck with that. Really.

What do I think? I think you're looking for Glenn to hand down some stone tablets that you can point to in righteous fury as evidence that some "well beloved regular" has crossed the same line that you've been accused of crossing.

That's what I think.