I think it a very BAD idea to to single out a contributor for popular acclaim.

That having been said, I must insist on a tie between sysprog and ondelette. Honorable mention for pow wow. And what's a WOG, anyway?

Sorry for the O/T Glenn.

@Glenn, BTW, would you consider doing a follow-up on loose ends generated throughout '08? Like, whatever happened w/ that nitwit Col. Boyle? (was that his name?), and did you ever get any any response from the Senators the other day (see, I've forgotten the topic already)? and what's happening w/ Accountability NOW/ and the like...?

And no, thanks, I don't need a sandwich.

Geez, Glenn. Happy New Year to you, as well!

I should've known I shouldn't have asked for a retrospective.

NOT a new blog post.

Happy New Year, most!

I thought your inane comment must almost certainly be snark. Until I read some of your previous letters.

Why don't you go hunt down OS' actual birth certificate?

Which brings to mind a question.

I believe the situation in Gaza warrants all the attention it is receiving -but didn't we (the U.S.) kill literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians with nary a peep from the MSM about the carnage?

N/T

I thought about Darfur, etc. when I made that comment, and I take your point.

I'd argue though (to the extent that argument is necessary) that it is not necessary to view the amount of attention being given to the Gaza situation in a relative sense. Yes, Darfur deserves more attention than it gets, but Darfur attention vs. Gaza attention is not a zero-sum game.

And there is the small matter of nuclear armaments, should the situation really deteriorate. So I think Israel is worth keeping an eye on.

Glenn, the more you write about this topic, the more (I believe) you get at the fundamental social psychopathology underlying most/all of the world's seemingly intractable conflicts. I don't have the foggiest idea what potential solutions might look like. Discouraging.

But when you said this:

...society's weakest, most frightened, and most insecure individuals.

I was really hoping the linky was going to point to a picture of "Shartstain22%, King of Trolls!"

BTW, your attempts to apply reciprocal and equivalent moral standards to [everyone] - (including the U.S. and Israel, how DARE you!?) prompt me to offer a gentle reminder:

After you feel an appropriate period of time has passed, please revisit your conversation w/ Dr. Chomsky.

Is this a WAR CRIME?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece

or click sig

OS says "More TAX CUTS!"

Now that's some feckin' CHANGE! Right? Right!?

Thanks for the tiny snippet of good news, Glenn. Taking her writings, what you've presented anyway, at face value, she seems like a distinct improvement over some of the previous appointees.

Of course, we have to Hope that she wields more influence over OS than [everybody else in the Cabinet but Chu?]

I'll lay odds on how that turns out.

What on earth possesses certain people to routinely expel noxious fumes from their lower GI tract as if said excretions somehow had the force of Law?

I'm thinking of this

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/05/olc/permalink/6bf89819c0568cc9c62655bcf5e62e55.html

but it happens all the time. I mean, really. What the Hell?

Nothing to add re: an outstanding interview other than:

1. Kudos to HH for allowing you the space to answer his "questions".

2. I second the previous commenter who hopes you are provided with many more similar media opportunities. Better you than me.

I do wonder, though, if anything you said "got through" to his listeners, or even, dare I ask, Hewitt himself.

...then you have people like Lab2112.

I hope you'll stay at it regardless.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/01/05/oops-they-pissed-off-judge-walker-before-he-finalizes-immunity/

or linky @ sig

And since there's no post about it yet -

Greenwald never writes about what I want him to write about. I expected better of this place.

Steve, there's a difference between saying "I believe there is such a thing as a just war" and "there's no such thing as an unjust war".

Exactly what, if anything, constitutes a just war, is, I believe, a question worth examining.

Man, I was rootin' for ya, but I'm afraid you may have already blown it.

I'm hoping the transom opens wide enough that somebody can toss some pre-911 evidence over.

Sorry, man. Your initial post fooled me into thinking I might be addressing a rational human being.

Does the War on Christmas count? I'm still fighting that one. Truly, a just cause.

Your last para., is the question worth debating. That's where I thought Steved was going before he imploded.

I would imagine self-defense against a War of Aggression is justifiable. Don't know if that fits the definition of a just war, though.

Wait a minute.

Are you suggesting I'm not disqualified from [every]thing, [for]ever?

What a relief.

A little O/T sorry, but

I have a love/hate relationship with the word "sanction".

It's one of those English words that can mean one thing AND the opposite.

Like "oversight".

Man, it is exceedingly clever the way you latch onto whatever you deem to be the most salient characteristic of somebody (in Glenn's case, his sexuality, apparently) and then oh-so-sardonically "mock" them using those witty little names that cut to the heart of your target's true nature.

Since you must having some passing familiarity with yourself, do tell - how do you refer to yourself in your own mind? Suppurating hemorrhoid? Incomprehensibly big asshole? Nauseating turd?

Think about THIS, suppurating hemorrhoid

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/07/1736214.aspx

and tell us about the superiority of your political ideology.

Nitwit.