You know what? That was intemperate. Let me settle this.

“Eating a bag of dicks” is a joke that TBogg took from Louis C.K., who also had his material lifted by Dane Cook. Nevertheless, Louis had Cook as a guest on his show, where the two of them (playing characters based on themselves) had a tense but cordial chat about the controversy. This meant that they had to work together in real life, which demonstrated a degree of class seldom seen in today’s increasingly rancorous public square.

In short: Thank you, gunsandbutter, for your advice in telling me to go fuck myself. It was greatly appreciated.

Dude, what did I do? I was trying to be fucking diplomatic here and explain some shit. Am I really to eat dicks because I haven’t spent every day of the ten years or so I’ve spent following Sir Bogg spilling my brain onto these pages, or following the digital lives of those that do? A thousand pardons, I have only so many hours per day to spend on memorizing Internet minutiae, and in the future I will do so on the commentariat at this site, rather than…whatever the fuck I do all day.

I guess what I’m saying is that in the future I’ll spend my time posting comments at World O’ Crap, where people don’t act like engorged veiny bellends at people with whom they have ultimately incidental disagreements.

I’m going to assume that you’re new to this particular quadrant of the electronic ocean. As such, you may not be aware that our host employs that dark art known as “humor.”

He wasn’t actually suggesting that you don’t care about black people.

TBogg was making a statement about those people (but specifically tanbark, in this thread) who are saying that Obama was a disappointment for not making these remarks a months ago when most of them hadn’t heard about it until a few days ago. The story has been around for a month, but it has only been a national story for a month. The tanbarks out there – who are a sizable chunk of this network – have been using this story as a cudgel against the President.

His point when bringing up Sharpton was that a guy who leaps on any racially motivated story nevertheless didn’t feel the need to even mention Martin until this week because he hadn’t heard about it, same as Obama. Your main offense was coming to the defense of a member of FDL’s Purity Pony crowd. TBogg wasn’t even talking about you, really, his ire was aimed towards the idiots who overwhelm this blog every time it makes the FDL mainpage.

So he wasn’t actually suggesting that you don’t care about black people. He was making a point about the purity crowd and their selective outrage, and employing “sarcasm” while doing so.

(Postscript: It looks like you’ve commented here quite a bit. You’ve really never seen the ‘Bogg fight the Purity crew? Lucky you, I guess)

You’re forgetting to apply the libertarian definition of “coercion”: Anything short of a government agent putting a gun to your head doesn’t rate.

Hmm. One hour from post to troll. Not bad, have seen better.

Let me lay this out for you, and I’ll be as polite as I possibly can: There are a large number of “progressive” web sites – possibly a majority of them – where this “Obama is at fault for everything” attitude of yours would be welcomed with open arms. In fact, that would be the case on just about anywhere else on FDL.

This is not one of those places. Please don’t shit in our meeting room.

Okay, one more comment and I’m out. Please, please don’t restrict yourself to what TBogg has posted. This is seriously the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in many years. In Chapter 2, he starts in on his “tumultuous and sexually abusive childhood” which reads like it was stitched together out of cribbed passages from every misery memoir on Authonomy.

Oh God…on page four, he introduces a “heavy-set African American housekeeper” named Yolanda (yes) who is the most heinous stereotype I’ve seen in a good long while.

This is the worst thing I’ve read in months, and I am loving it.

Something like…”limos, lovers, lunacy, and lechery”? I guess that’s more like assonance, but if it’s good enough for the Kevin A. Lehmann…

For those of you who are aficionados of awful self-published literature, a bit of a warning: Lehmann’s “memoir” starts off with 1000+ words on craps terminology and stats, obviously an attempt to assert his bona fides. However, if you stick through that you’ll eventually get to some awesomely horrible, sub-Tarantino attempts at hard-boiled dialogue (“Fuck you, fuckball!”).

Looking at Mediaite’s history, it seems that they also called in Ziegler to review Going Rogue. And to review a documentary about Barack Obama. I suspect Mediaite has a long way to go before anyone takes them seriously, but at least they’ll have a strong fan base. Shame it’ll be at the bottom of a swamp.

Oh, and if anyone knows of a statement more vile than “‘blood libel’ which, unbeknownst to most Americans had been apparently legally copyrighted by the Jewish people hundreds of years ago”, I’d like to hear it. Some people in the Mediaite comment section think it’s anti-Semitic, but given that Ziegler is so stupid that he apparently doesn’t know what anti-Semitism is, I think he gets a pass.

Oh, knock it off. You can spread that bullshit over any other FDL blog you want, but leave this one alone.

Mankiw’s suggestions, in order:

-Forget about jobs and work on lowering debt
-Cut taxes on the wealthy
-No, seriously, cut taxes on the wealthy
-Fire some teachers
-Make more Republican friends

I’d never have guessed that he worked for George W. Bush.

If you read the update to that post, you’ll see that Glenn got an e-mail from a guy explaining all the reasons why nuking North Korea would be a bad idea and recommending a propaganda campaign as a more effective (and less homicidal) solution. Insty’s response (in so many words) was “Eh…I like my idea better.”

Leaving aside the whole “Nuking Korea would accomplish nothing” thing, I’d like to note that there are many countries that would be upset over having nukes dropped on their neighbors. I used to live a few miles from the DPNK, and I gotta tell you, a uranium-saturated cloud showering the place with radioactive rain would have just ruined the fuck out of my day.