I just read your increasingly shrill and desperate pleas for attention. "Look at meeeeee! I am such a rebel! Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!"

That was funnier than reading Althouse on one of her "I skipped my meds" days.

http://absurdrealities.blogspot.com/2007/05/senator-mike-gravel-offers-plan.html

Thought for sure it was Lives With Mother.

DCLaw1 asked:

please

Ignore the trolls.

I know doing this makes my day a lot more pleasant. I especially liked that guy who put the page number as his subject header; he made it so much easier to skip his contributions.

Scott Stoeffler:

Often it seems that there isn't a whole heck of a lot of actual news at the center of all these layers of commentary.

That's because it's commentary and not news. Are you really saying that you think Digby's posts added nothing more to the conversation? Because to me, it took things in a different direction than Glenn's, and he covered the topic with a whole new audience-- as you can see if you read the comments there (apparently, this post generated one of his biggest responses ever). I've enjoyed all the various posts I've read on this one little reported bit of "news" and suspect I'll read further pertinent observations no one's even thought of yet. For instance, the famously impish Edsall hasn't weighed in, as far as I know. If he does, he may well agree with your assessment of Digby's analysis of Klein's complaints about Glenn's comments on Alter's response to Reed's reporting of Edsall's opinion of Broder. And, wherever he is, I'm sure Mike Gravel is chuckling.

They have nothing better to do than what? Tell me in 4 or 5 or 6 straight long winded posts that they're not reading my posts. Uh ok, gotcha dudes and dudettes. You're just digging yourselves in deeper. You're becoming your own performance art proving my point. Thanks!

RealName, this might be a good time to tell you that I've long ago stopped reading your posts. Oh sure, there are times when I'll be reading a letter, sense that something is off with the writer, and realize (d'oh!) it's yet another of the 655 letters (and counting) you've plastered on Salon in just the last 5 weeks. Oops, make that 656. I mean 657. Wait: 658. But otherwise I now look ahead to the writer's name, and skip your letters.

Why don't you start your own blog? as an outlet for your endless, infinite opinions, and apparently unlimited time. You can complain about DFH's, and all of the insults to Israel and the Jewish people you care to imagine. Seriously, dude, get a life -- or, if not a life, a blog. Sheesh, 659 letters? Oops, make that 670. I get it: you hate Islam. BORE-RING!

Ignore the trolls. Do not even utter their name(s). If and when one says something halfway intelligent, that is not laced with childish insults, respond then. Otherwise, their "points" are not validated by your silence -- however, their petulant presence here is validated by your response.

There really needs to be a pact here (for all regulars, at least) to let idiots die on the vine. Consider it a form of flattery that they waste so much of their lives trying to tell us how much we're wasting ours, and leave it at that. Please.

You didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left you. Just like Ronald Reagan said it. We drove both of you out to the desert, Death Valley, and left you there. Unfortunately, that moron switched parties and became president, and you found your way back here. In either case, we wish you both had stayed lost.

Are you Aunt Polly Cracker Pixie?

Polly wants a crack-er? Polly's 2-'d mole-hole relative RealSnout was known to begin a rumor. You roll in the compost pile? You knit-ten' a silk pantie-hose for your nit-Pic-boss's G-string butt?

A can fetch a hot-radish red-plug. i can give it to you for a semblance of a free cork. A menace like you snorts mice snot up the nostrils, or what? It comes forth from a anal cavity. It's simple math and biology. You a diseased ling-um? I jest wonder why you speak gibber with the nice omen here. You hang with diseased _icks.

You can name you RealSmelly? RealT'it- a big-T RealTurd mackeral?

Gee. I agree with some opines about you. Yuze steal white petticoat's? Why? Yuze a man-titty for a neocon's bossman? Yuze very very ill, if that's a true case... RealSack of _hit!

Yuze maysbe might choke to death with a cough-hack on catcall hair whiskers, unless yuze don't barf 'em forth up. We don't to the hermaletic mouth-to-mouth 'round here 'cause some breath smell like a odor of poo*!

Yuze might curl into a ReakDuh turd? Yuze all alone. I sincerely mantilla believe that. Yuze on crack? You sweep up the cracks off the floor and snort via the dust-cracks, or you a snickersnotsapoopopbuttsnortsnillcraker?

Go crack a RealDoz., brown egg shells. Yuze humpy a dumpy? Yow. Yuze RealYuck, or RealWhat! A RealKook. A real hollow Real'O- a'fur da'opine baddest breath, and gas-bag odor's.

A RealPoo wish to-to-toga yuze-kin, who you assume to represent? Disgust? You may be jest plain' a bit with diff-rules? Mebe meze still RealCorn fuzed?

Dada RealNice of liberals to rename yuze RealGoo. You spell goodier than most smells in the air-wind, but yuze remind me of Snot's. Yuze knot? Meze's cornfussy today.

Please stop whining.

You're basically a gaggle of uniformed immature assholes who don't and can't really utter a coherent sentence about anything meaningful and instead garble and woof at me because that's easier to do, you're a mob and it's the most precious and ironic underlining of the very point I've been making to you about you over and over and over. Blogs are you, and you are a bunch of namecalling fools. But, if it makes you feel all important and significant to dart out from your mob and throw rocks at the 2% here who don't bow down to everything and anything reflective of your idiot world view, then fine. Do that. Opine away. Pull a new made up compound noun out of your collective ass for a news channel I still don't watch and tell me I watch it. Go ahead, namecall. It becomes you.