Comments on: Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride

By: Tyouth

Tyouth — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:38:43 +0000

Ha, “libstick”, that’s funny; so is the objection to it two comments above.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:07:28 +0000

Goodness gracious. There must be a hole in the screen door.

By: Parka Lewis

Parka Lewis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:46:03 +0000

Uh, asshole, it’s “lipstick” libertarian, not “libstick.”

By: Ralph Dratman

Ralph Dratman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:32:49 +0000

Sorry, can't stop to join this engaging discussion. Some Congolese ruffians stole my penis this morning. Later tonight I'll be hitting the road to track it down and get it back. It may take a while, but I'm not giving up.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:29:52 +0000

Ha. Yeah, I’ll get on it, any day now! Better yet, let’s all just assume it’s already there.

;)

By: Jay Manifold

Jay Manifold — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:36:58 +0000

I want a stupid/evil meter next to each author in the right sidebar! Jonathan, put your life on hold (during Passover) and get on it! ;^)

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:08:39 +0000

This guy should be ignored.

James has better things to write about.

Ignore idiots. If they come here, delete their comments. Life is short.

By: Jay Manifold

Jay Manifold — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:07:46 +0000

*butter is dripping from my screen now*

This either means 1) you're easily flattered or 2) you were eating something buttery while reading this blog and exploded with laughter. I will hope for 1). Returning to the original topic, I'll just note that Edroso's pretzel logic explaining how any blog he disagrees with is "right-wing" is immensely entertaining. No amount of contradictory positions is allowed to detract from the gospel that any non-antiwar blog must somehow be on the right, irrespective of any other content. I'd love to get him in a room with Marc Danziger (I note that Winds of Change was scrupulously avoided in the profiles) and watch his ass get kicked. Returning even more closely to the original topic, what about my stupid/evil ratio? I suppose it depends on what is supposed to be inherently stupid rather than inherently evil. Caucasian heterosexual evangelical red-stater ... probably mostly stupid, so far. Libertarian pro-war pro-nuclear power pro-missile defense pro-automobile ... getting lots more evil in there. Call it 25/75 for now. I think this needs metrics so we can all rate ourselves properly.

By: renminbi

renminbi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:06:15 +0000

The VV is a free newspaper- and that is about all it is worth.It was once interesting but that was long ago. I did look at the comments to Edroso’s screed. I don’t think most of them should be allowed anything sharper than plastic knives in their kitchens.Well, actually, maybe they should be.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:13:44 +0000

*butter is dripping from my screen now*

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:41:21 +0000

Tat, you are one of the thoughtful and intelligent beauties and wits.

I did click on the link (from the Althouse blog, a few days ago) and do not feel that I have grown as a person as a result.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:41:24 +0000

…and that’s why I didn’t click on the links!

although *looking in the compact’s mirror* it’s nice that SOMEONE considers me one of beauties and wits…even undeservedly.

OK, I leave now, to move and shake some more.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:23:32 +0000

I agree that most readers of this blog are intelligent and thoughtful. What I meant was that our readership is too small to interest the larger trolls. A big-time parasite like Edroso, who lives on the intellectual skin scrapings of bloggers who are far more intelligent and productive than he is, needs hosts with big audiences. Reynolds, Althouse and McArdle have big audiences because they’re good, and Edroso attacks them because doing so inflames both their audiences and his audience of excitable leftist morons, and the resulting flame wars bring traffic to wherever he’s blogging from. Reynolds understands all this and usually doesn’t take the bait but some of the other big bloggers are relatively easily manipulated. It’s too bad because Edroso doesn’t deserve the attention and the Village Voice doesn’t deserve the boost in traffic.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:10:54 +0000

But Jonathan what we lack in quantity we make up in quality – our readers are clearly movers and shakers, beauties and wits. Their IQs and style are the envy of lesser blogs. (If we don’t butter up our clientele, how are we going to build them?)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:04:34 +0000

What puzzles me is how Mr. Edroso could have missed including The Chicago Boyz in his list!

We don’t have enough readers. He’s a troll whose goal is not to engage rationally but to provoke. The VV is using him to generate traffic to justify their ad rates. Don’t take the bait.