so over the top, so irrational, so non-specific in its hatred of the country, that it cannot plausibly be accepted as valid

I really can't imagine what you mean by "non-specific." I mean, I think that someone can be a full-throated supporter of Israel's "right to defend herself," and the absolute position that Judea and Samaria are, and of right ought to be, an integral part of Eretz Israel and still see the position that the occupation is murderous apartheid as specific.

"Over the top" is, of course, pretty subjective. The Afrikaans word apartheid means nothing more than separateness, and though it's a very emotionally charged term, I don't think one would have to try pretty hard to imagine that there are pretty strong feelings on the part of those who have suffered as a result of the occupation.

To claim that such a characterization is nothing more than "anti-semitism," I think, requires a pretty strong effort not to see any more than one side of a complex issue. And I can't see who that helps.

Ball your fists and run your potty mouth all you want, but you can't deny this is a true statement:

You don't care if Joe Lieberman or Bill Kristol run foreign policy under a McCain administration because you're not the one they'll be dropping bombs on.

I'm sitting this election out, but dumbass radicals like you almost make me want to register Democrat.

I hope to hell you're at least organizing your community, or blockading home evictions, or doing something other than trolling Salon.com, for Makhno's sake. Somehow, though, I doubt it.

You have no argument so you look for typos.

huh?

Huh?

I'll enjoy these figures' public humiliation as best I can, knowing that they'll probably continue to get regular bookings on the Sunday talk shows throughout (what will now almost certainly be) the Obama Administration.

It seems to me that they don't do circular firing squads over there, though: they rather specialize in the other kind, don't they?

Put more plainly: do you really think they'll blame anything other than a stab-in-the-back media for their electoral defeat? I mean, they put a picture of Palin on the cover of Newsweek... and you could see crow's feet, for goshsakes.

Talk about self-congratulation and shamelessly huckstering your own book.

It's true. There's nothing more crass than promoting a book you wrote on your own blog. What the hell could GG have been thinking?!

I'm an idiot

It hardly shows at all. Also, Dude, "idiot" is not the preferred nomenclature. Imbecile-American, please.

...a little early for people to start taking victory laps? The DJIA's up less than 90 points as I write, and it's been thrashing all morning.

Far be it from me to piss in anyone's cornflakes, but come on.

Happy Birthday, Art!

Would that it were a kinder world to welcome a clownsensical Libra-Scorpio into a new year. But as a wise man once said: any day above ground is a good day.

candles and cakes to ya

...says Electro Robot, in his eleventy-fifth online identity, making all his nowher plans for nobody.

Winter is coming. There are all sorts of more creative indoor hobbies you could consider. Origami is supposed to be very calming and results in tangible works of sublime beauty. Just a thought.

it's perfectly natural to spew generalized hate about white people.

Straw man argument...

If someone tried to reverse this argument and play apologist for why there is bigorty towards arabs

...and false equivalence.

Fifteen yard penalty, still first down.

Maybe, you know, just buy some jigsaw puzzles. Or, say, watch videos online, or jerk off, anything... when the urge to create another stupid screen name and write another inane post comes up, just distract yourself.

Others have fought the compulsion. You can too.

Your posts are like farts... they dissipate soon enough, but they just make the place uncomfortable for a little bit. And they leave nothing behind but a vague pity for someone with so few social skills

Also, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tendentious

Wow. Even if I agreed with you about the plight of the poor misunderstood white man, I'd definitely wish for a better advocate.

Unless it's a Kaufmanesque performance routine you're doing here, I'd suggest you try a different tack.

all the bleeding ulcerous conflicts going on our sphere of influence--Congo, Israel and Lebanon and Israel Palestine--where we have an incredible amount of influence to change things

Is it cause the US doesn't want to do anything about those conflicts? That instability and war are actually the desired state of affairs? Ya think maybe huh?

Benjamins will gladly be accepted at the paypal account under paulac at gmail dot com. ..

It is hugely to the campaign bus reporter's advantage for the candidate they are following to win.

Kind of obvious, but I don't know if I've seen that aspect of the "in the tank" dynamic expressed quite so succinctly, so thanks for that.

I think the "desire for belonging" thing Glenn remarks on plays a part, as well - not only on the campaign trail, but in the press room after the election.

...censorship? Just wondering.

What we see are left-wing political operatives in the leadership of organizations that would generally like to pass as "non-partisan,"

This is a genuine question: does the CTA actually try to 'pass as "non-partisan?"' That's hard for me to imagine. It's a union, after all, isn't it?

It's just hard to see why a "Prop 8 ad-blitz" is somehow anti-democratic

I don't see where Romero's article says that: can you help me?

"Vicious and deceitful" I see; "anti-democratic" I do not.

"$30 million advertising blitz" = well-funded and anti-democratic advertising campaign designed to fool credulous voters.

Ooo! The Red Queen, posting on Salon.com. Teh awesome!!1!!11!

Wired had it exactly reversed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWzI3EV3Ffg