Act 1: Youngish liberal blogger of color – known outside his circle chiefly for having photoshopped a conservative politician of color in blackface – because it was poignant or something when he did it – dies after a prolonged illness.
Act 2: Liberal bloggers around the sphere lament his untimely passing.
Act 3: Conservative satirist blogger runs a frankly tasteless post, bashing the deceased before he’s laid to rest. Claiming “sauce for the goose.” Or something equally implausible.
Act 4: Left liberal/feminist blogger in generally conservative Tennesse (and someone who actually managed to get paid for blogging – like, an actual living) notes in passing, and with deadpan irony, that the left has been “taught a lesson.”
Act 5: Popular liberal satirist blogger totally misinterprets Act 4, and – too much in a lather of self-righteous anger to seek context – summons forth his troll legions, demanding the dismissal of a left liberal/feminist blogger in conservative Tennesse, and that most ricky-tic.
Act 6: Mission accomplished! – left liberal/feminist blogger in Tennessee says “ah, feckit” and another voice is extinguished.
(Stage Left) – Trolls continue to gnaw at the carcass, saying it’s not their fault that the irony flew over their heads and that the left liberal blogger from Tennessee ought to just apologize to them and be done with it. Because they didn’t understand. And it’s her fault!
Act 7: (Not yet published) Jeff Goldstein writes something withering about intentionalism and privileged narratives, and so forth. I’m betting.
Jane Hamsher comes to defense of f*ckwit @5.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/06/07/vive-la-france-mon-general/
Ah, yes, I’ve read all about it at Sayuncle’s place, a day or so ago.
What’s really more important is that http://www.thehighroad.org has been having ddos problems lately, which chaps my cracker ass, as Mr. Rob Smith used to say.
Nutty.
Things that make you glad you’re not…
Nah, forget it!
In the immortal words of Steve Martin, “Comedy is not pretty.”
I’m reminded of the letter once penned by Voltaire, stating “I am seated in the smallest room in the house, your missive before me. Soon it will be behind me.”
Surely there will once again be a time when argument and debate will be judged upon the merits of the evidence rather than the supposed leanings of the writer?
Yet I am also heartened to see that the blogger initially mentioned was a journalist. Even went to college for it. Now what does a person go to college and spend thousands of dollars for? Certainly not out of any hope to be the next anchor on the CBS evening news. Certainly not as a step up from an English major. No,I suspect they choose journalism out of some misguided hope they can break the next Watergate case, expose the light of Truth to The People. In other words, Do-Gooders without the stomach to carry the torch but strong enough to write about the actions of others. Hangers-on, in other words. Wannabees, you might say.
Thus its no suprise a stand on principle appears nowhere in the record.
Thanks for your leadership, pal. Now if you’ll kindly move out of the way there are people who’d like to move forward. There’s a good lad.
– Max
Shipmates,
Well, in regards to the dearly departed, though I am saddened by the collective loss that even the least among us causes by an early demise, there is still some confusion on my part as to what, exactly, he was most known for.
Being acquainted with his work(s), they consisted chiefly of a foul-word besprinkled diatribes about most anything and everything that displeased him, those seemingly being chiefly aligned with anything centrist or right od there.
His nibs was often considered a paragon of military knowledge, having a rather large (it is claimed) collection of tones, treatises, texts, and other tactical works, plus volumes of work dedicated to the history of warfare in all of it’s W’s…
That being the case, it has befuddled me to no end as to where the gentleman in question USED this accumulated literature, as nowhere does it much appear in any of his entries. Certainly his works reflect no incorporation of any relevant military expertise, so again, I sadly find myself confused and not a little perplexed by it all.
Then, though, I seem to be oft-perplexed these days. Damned sobriety…. I’ll have to address that issue.
Respects,
I love the expression “most ricky-tic”
Does anyone know how it came into use?
Probably from that immortal Kipling story about the mongoose, Babs.
Max @#5 said: I?
Max @#5 said: I’m reminded of the letter once penned by Voltaire, stating “I am seated in the smallest room in the house, your missive before me. Soon it will be behind me.”
Voltaire wiped his a$$ with stationary? The things you learn by reading blogs!!
I thought it was pidgen Vietnamese, since I recollect hearing VN vets use it back in the day.
I believe that Rudyard Kipling had a story about a mongoose named Ricky Ticky Tavy. I always thought that “ricky-tic” was a reference to being quick like a mongoose.
The expression is older than I am and I would most certainly bow to Lex’s greater knowledge though.
Back to the point if you please. What am I not getting here? If the guy was an a$$hole in life, death certainly didn’t cleanse him of his a$$holiness. I know, I know, life has become like Walt Disney’s Bambi.
(Remember Thumper’s Moma telling thumper, “If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all”).
Brittney, shoulda told them all to go and pound salt. Hummmm, in the same vein, now that Imus is gone there’s no longer a reason to go to MSNBC for anything. What-the-hell.
JG has some nerve. But then, hey, it is the bold who get things done.
Given his attacks on people in the past I can’t see how he has the guts to think he has ANY standing to call for someone’s head. But then, hey, it is the bold who get things done.
Oh well. Never read Gilliard. Didn’t care. Sorry he’s dead, but tasteless and mean things get thrown the way of public figures. He made himself a public figure and seemed to enjoy it. Yin/Yang. Not saying I liked the six meat thing, but I’m sure if one tried they could find vile things written about Reagan not six minutes after it was reported he was dead by those complaining the loudest of the attack on Gilliard. Real pot meet kettle thing. But the, well, it’s the bold who get things done isn’t it?