Print edition, that is. If you read him online, it's best to switch the monitor off.

Tonight, as every night, Richard will anticipate with pleasure the moment Mrs. Cohen turns the lights off. Then, as usual, she will slip a nanny goat into the bed while she goes out to enjoy sexual relations with an actual liberal. Not only is her husband on to the ruse, he actually prefers it that way.

If concentration camp capos like Cohen and Klein can call themselves liberals, I'd like to start calling myself an Oldsmobile. Or call my taxes paid in perpetuity. It's the new reality.

Basically it's 4th grade recess.

Spoken like a suppurating abscess.

William Timberman and L.W.M., you've made my day. Thanks. I'm so touched, honored and grateful for your kind words I may not be able to say anything mean or insulting for 10 or 12 minutes.

"Suppurating" is indeed a wonderful word, but I'm surprised that anyone who follows contemporary politics and media hasn't acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the lexicon of pus.

Be a real libertarian, please, and get off the big-government-founded internet, stop using the words you learned in big-government-subsidized schools, and shove Ron Paul up your big-government-protected ass.

You'll feel so much better for it!

But it did contain this delicious morsel: "{Scooter Libby has] spent every cent he's had on legal fees and not slept for eight months..."

Gee, what happened to all his multi-millionaire friends raising all those multi-millions for his defense fund? Did they spend it all on cocktail weenies? And does Cohen know the man hasn't slept for eight months because he shares his bed? I submitted that thanks to the Bush Administratoion for whom Scooter lied and obstructed justice, many of us haven't slept in over six years and more than 3000 American troops are sleeping permanently, but somehow this was passed over by the chat moderators.

Overall, Cohen's obdurate self-justification reminded me of my father's favorite domestic argument-stopper. To paraphrase: when he's right, he's right, and when he's wrong, he's right.

Personally, I'm pretty "skeptical" about your fitness to draw the paramaters of "acceptable" discourse on the left. Most of your arguments -- particularly in your first comment on this thread -- seem to refute themselves. And since you have no trouble demanding that those who (you claim) make liberals "look bad" sit down and shut up, I'll ask you as politely as possible to sit down and shut up. You're not helping anyone, you're not adding anything but personal pique to the conversation, and you're certainly not making any friends.

By my count, huffyseptic hates dirty fucking hippies, tree huggers, feminists, everyone who tars him as a fringe lefty, and everyone he tars as a fringe lefty.

I can hardly wait to find out what he thinks of Teh Gays, but I doubt I'll have to wait very long!

Sorry to nitpick, but according to Frank Loesser (via Danny Kaye) it's "wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen," not "beautiful, beautiful." Unless you're quoting from the wingnut remake, Hans Christianist Andersen. Or you're really high right now.

You remind me of George W. Bush. He too pretended to be a uniter, not a divider.

What you seem to want is some kind of ideological purge of those liberals who are too ideological for your taste. I'm sure RealName would be glad to hold down a dirty fucking hippie for you while you kick her repeatedly in the guts. It's the moderate, centrist, sensible thing to do. Wouldn't want to scare the wingnuts, or the "liberal" media who continue to enable them, would we?

Quick, hide the copies of Glenn's book! The moderate in-laws are coming over!

Sorry I'm not up to speed with the thread, but while catching up these gems from houghtyantiseptic stopped me cold:

As a practical example, the black civil rights movement of the 50s deliberately avoided the issue of gay rights, because it was a fringe issue. They instead focused on what they could acheive, and helped evolved the culture. Had they taken on gay rights, they would have been stopped dead in thier tracks, helping neither black civil rights or gays, and quite possibly getting both persecuted worse.

....

Historically, prohibition was another example of overreach from the right which helped usher in an era of increased liberalism.

What planet are you from? Were you raised in a fish tank? Which comic books and/or Ikea furniture assembly instructions provide your grasp of our culture and history? Where could anyone begin to unravel you from your own shoelaces?

If you're fourteen years old, I'll cut you some slack -- but there just can't be a fourteen-year-old as stuffy and whipped as you sound.

And that hippie-hate is some wild shit, man. Sorry your folks were such assholes to you, but don't blame it on their tie-dye and Grateful Dead records.

Google's blogger software makes it all very, very easy, but if you run into problems setting it up, we'll help you out.

-- Karen M

No matter which way I try to interpret your offer to highlytoxic, it still makes you a great humanitarian. Sincerely.

That's political reality for you.

-- healthyskeptic

Oh, now I see -- healthyskeptic is really politcalrealityonline, back with a new strategy! I'm afraid it's just as dismal a flop as the previous and not half as funny.

Really, kid, you're terribly confused -- did you watch a PBS documentary on the civil rights movement during a series of rolling blackouts?

The LGBT community's motto should be "we'll support you right out of office!"

-- healthyskeptic

How many hours (and pages) ago did I predict this was coming? I'm running out to an off-track betting parlor right now while I'm hot!

Fred Thompson can be a formidable foe. I saw the bastard up close when he ran for the Senate.

-- bucky1

Then Fred farted, and Bucky1 was blown straight down the leg of his pants.