Chris, I am sure if you addressed your complaints to Salon editors, they would find LWM and give him the back of their hand.

There's no point complaining to us. I'm sure you remember that LWM was elected (by acclimatisation) "blog arbiter".

I am afraid he will have to be recalled or impeached, possibly for moral turpentine.

One mention of anything L and LWM takes it as a license to ignore requests to not be a dick and goes back into smear mode, falling off the wagon it was never on or tried to climb aboard.

It still won't answer my question about why it won't honor your request. It would rather make stupid jokes and cutesy typos instead of addressing its own actions and taking responsibility for its inability to control its unhealthy, obsessive compulsive behaviors. I wonder if it brushes its teeth like 50x a day, maybe whenever it thinks of Evil Dr. Paul?

It even switches handles and mocks your requests. Using multiple handles in the same thread is totally normal behavior and stuff, especially for older people, over the age of 12. I wonder if LWM switches voices depending on which personality has bubbled to the surface?

Maybe LWM should put a sink next to its computer. Whenever the "urges" come, it could just wash its hands instead. If it is going to be OCD and not attempt to control itself, it should at least be cliche.

And here I am encouraging it. Oh well, time to do something it can't do, and has obviously never learned to do in its long life. Control my behavior.

Maybe LWM will learn to act like a big kid when it grows up. Multiple handles on message boards, including sockpuppets, on the same thread. Truly signs of someone who cares about controlling their behavior.

Listen my Pauliac pal, do you have any idea what I go through? I'm always plugging that stupid radio (and internet) station KBCS 91.3

Okay, they play a lot of "folk music" which seems to be, on some days comprised entirely of rejected C&W demo tapes. Okay?

So the other day I was listening, and they played a little C&W dirge about a woman who is doubting that her macho man will ever change. Got that? Good.

The song was titled (and the chorus reprised the words after each verse) "She Knows it Like the Back of His Hand" lemme give you a sample (I am not making this up, these are the words):

He promises to change,

and be a better man.

But she knows those promises

are written in the sand,

Cause he'll never be no different,

he just shouts and commands,

She Knows it Like the Back of His Hand!

And you wonder why I've got foot in mouth disease?

This Is Why Facts Matter

Jennifer Rubin - 06.13.2008 - 4:09 PM

Senior Brookings fellows Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack gave a report today and entertained questions at a Brookings briefing on Iraq. It was the single most illuminating presentation I have witnessed on the status of Iraq and the potential way forward. Neither man can be accused of shilling for either the administration or John McCain for numerous reasons: both have been strong critics of the war and O’Hanlon opposed the war and still believes on balance it has not made us safer. I understand from Brookings that the entire transcript will be posted, but I offer some highlights below.

...

I asked O’Hanlon whether his previous criticism that Barack Obama was in denial about facts on the ground still stood. In a lengthy answer he and then Pollack avoided a partisan hit on Obama and I think revealed their true purpose: to inform the public and policy matters about the real situation in Iraq and allow Democrats to in essence climb back off the surge opposition policy limb they have crawled out on. (This is my description; they were quite tactful and even optimistic that this is a time when political leaders can reorient themselves to new facts.) Both indicated that it would be a mistake with critical provincial and national elections upcoming in 2008 and 2009 to begin an abrupt withdrawal in 2009. O’Hanlon offered that Democrats could take credit for having pressured Iraqis on a political front with the clear message that out presence would not be indefinite and that they should accept that “the good news is you may be able to leave earlier than proposed based on progress and not on defeat.”

more 'highlights', ad nauseam:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/11481

Russert finally recieved a call he couldn't take "off the record".

-- casual_observer

I guess not. All the same, in the pantheon of pernicious persons he was hardly more than an obsequious sycophant. There are some people whose graves I will gladly dance on but in his case I spoke ill enough of him when he was alive so I feel it is only fair to give him a years grace period now that he is dead before speaking ill of him again - and then forgetting him altogether.

It's true, darn it! I admit it, I'm just a heel which time may well wound. I'll toe the line from now on. But he made me do it. He said I had to kick you around.

I'm sorry, but he is pulling the strings on this thread.

Terrist Fist Jabbed in the Back!

By Derbig.

I know it was you. You are L.W.M.'s sock puppet, aren't you?

I'll miss old Timmeh. I wonder who will replace him. I hope it's Rachel Maddow.

Russert finally recieved a call he couldn't take "off the record".

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Look, just don't mention me. I've managed to fly under the radar so far, and I don't want anyone to make the connection between me and the guys on the post-office wall. I'm not going back, never!