In any case, I've never experienced a conversation where the word Coonass or its variants enriched the discourse.

I didn't see the original context... when used among bayou Cajuns, it's a term of pride, but when used by prairie Cajuns about bayou Cajuns, it's an insult. So I'm told.

I can call my cousin a dumb Guinea, 'cause he is. If you call him that, though, we're gonna have issues. Sic semper perckerwood.

To sum up pow won's very long post:

Don't quit your day job. You won't be working at Cliff's Notes anytime soon.

I have no problem with your "Engrish" writing style, but the lack of any attention to detail seems to be symptomatic of a certain mental laziness. You don't care to stop and look back if you spelled a commenter's screen name correctly, or if you understood the point of their comment.

It doesn't really motivate one to engage you in meaningful dialogue if it's obvious you're really not paying attention. To anything.

Fixing Glenn Greenwald's Problem

...Now, Glenn, the problem has been identified and described and everyone understands there is a problem which is negatively affecting society. The next step is to solve it. The solution here is that media must stop writing words only in order to get more advertising and media must only promote one thing: solving problems.

That's an ingenious solution, William. If I understand it correctly, it's a Swiss fuckin' watch.

If you believe anything else you live in an immoral world and I want you understand that there is one morality in the world in which we all can share joy and happiness as long as we all agree that one morality is shared by all. That morality is mine and it is the only morality which we all can share while living happy and joy filled lives.

Insane, but sadly not invisible.

you say:

progressives should constantly urge the Democrats to move in the right direction.

but then you say:

we could argue that, given that I have little choice but to vote for them, the Democrats will completely ignore someone like me.

It didn't seem to me that you ever got to the point where you explained what you would do so that Democrats would not "completely ignore" you.

I'm curious what your thoughts are in that connection.

It's not fair, dangitalltohell, to be sidelined from 'Contributor of the Week' votes just cause one occasionally strangles some contributors or throws rocks at them. ;o)

Can't there be a "Junkyard Dog of the Week" category?

I know this shouldn't irritate me as much as it does, but I am an aspiring curmudgeon and I need the practice...

Does writing about something of necessity imply "surprise" about that subject? Not just this commenter, but Chris Floyd -- whom I respect enormously -- seems to think so...

a sophisticated version control system that tracks and logs every change and every person who is responsible for that change

Though maybe we should use Subversion...

Nice catch.

Let's also talk about the conspiracy of silence that is preventing us from discussing the designated hitter rule, Jessica Simpson's weight gain, Mac vs. Windows and all the other topics that have nothing at all to do with the post.

people like Keith Olbermann, or Rachel Maddow or Glenn Greenwald, or news outlets like Salon or Air America would have been up in arms about ("Bush's press machinations!") if the 43rd President had done the same thing as the 44th President.

The 43rd President did do the same thing as the 44th President. Where were the arms?

I told you, as I've told you numerous times before, that what you claim to be doing, "raising awareness," is just alienating people and making all radicals look like showoffs. Your response to me was, I'm gonna keep doing it. It was a passive aggressive "fuck you," which is the response I always get from you.

I don't really care if you think I kiss GG's ass. Like I said, if you doesn't listen to me or engage me, you're shooter242 for all I give a fuck.

Wow...lol. That's all it takes? One little alert that Glenn Greenwald is watching and our conversation goes out the window in favor of invective? And I am the dick?

Yes, you are the dick. Replies like that are the perfect example why you are a walking, talking, keystroking phallus. Yes, I had no idea Glenn Greenwald was reading comments, as he always does, but as soon as I found out he was, why I scurried to curry favor with him by confronting you.

I engaged you in a respectful fashion and responded directly to what you had to say. You threw the conversation out the window and went off on one of your usual rants.

My comrades listen, and my friends engage. You do neither, so I don't know what you are.

It's still worth the try, at least to me.

Knock yourself out, man. If you have changed one mind, I'd be amazed. You're holier-than-thou, arrogant and tiresome, and you're generally ignored by the people who don't laugh at you.

I'm not trying to break your balls (or ovaries, for all I know...), just trying to give you a clue in case you really are interested in "raising awareness": what you are doing is having the opposite effect than what you say you want to accomplish.

For what it's worth, I think you just enjoy being a gadfly (which is a nice way of saying "a dick"), and don't really care if you get people to agree with you or not. And I think that's fine, if true, but I think you'd be better off being honest about it.