dude. how were you supposed to know that dozens of puma trolls and right-wing poseurs who had never taken an interest in your blog previously, would suddenly invade your thread at the first sign of any anti-hillary sentiment?
LOL. Your old blog felt like an afternoon eating coffee cake on the porch.
This is like.... about 30 kids staring at the giant punchbowl of M+Ms and Reese's peanut butter cups on the table, waiting for the adult supervision to go to the bathroom. You really can't leave us alone with that stuff unless you don't mind 30 kids destroying your living room while on a sugar high.
Reality is a figment of everyone elses imagination for those guys. Nothing is real unless they say its real. Words mean what they say they mean. It is disgusting. I'm so glad they lost.
Many of the commentators on theatlantic.com use the resident bloggers' posts as a vessel to act out long-standing arguments / personality conflicts. It really doesn't matter what the topic is, as evidenced by Ms. McArdle's more-or-less innocuous post deriding the Obama-as-the-Antichrist-conspiracy-theory theory. Imagine the hyperbole and showmanship of pro-wrestling acted-out by nerdy, anonymous introverts over a digital pipe, trading ten-cent words instead of hay-makers. Your blog doesn't set the tone, it's just the venue.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
You may not believe this, but that one was fairly tame compared to a lot of them elsewhere.
dude. how were you supposed to know that dozens of puma trolls and right-wing poseurs who had never taken an interest in your blog previously, would suddenly invade your thread at the first sign of any anti-hillary sentiment?
fuck 'em.
I'm missing something. What are you apologizing for again?
Opinions are like elbows most people have more than one and they are poorly equiped to stand up under stress.
It happens unfortunately the civil part of civic discourse is rapidly being lost.
You get mad points for being on top of things though.
Ta, that was highly irresponsible!
That was like if you were hired as a babysitter and you left an 8 year-old and a 6 year-old alone to share a piece of cake.
Of course when you came back there would be blood and tears and frosting all over the kitchen.
LOL. Your old blog felt like an afternoon eating coffee cake on the porch.
This is like.... about 30 kids staring at the giant punchbowl of M+Ms and Reese's peanut butter cups on the table, waiting for the adult supervision to go to the bathroom. You really can't leave us alone with that stuff unless you don't mind 30 kids destroying your living room while on a sugar high.
Peep, Breukelyne,
LOL! That had me chuckling - good laugh for the aftrnoon, thanks!
Reality is a figment of everyone elses imagination for those guys. Nothing is real unless they say its real. Words mean what they say they mean. It is disgusting. I'm so glad they lost.
Yes, indeed--
Once people expressed opinions and laid out facts conflicting with the Oborg, it was time to close the thread.
Censorship is freedom.
Yes, indeed--
Once people expressed opinions and laid out facts conflicting with the Oborg, it was time to close the thread.
Censorship is freedom.
I wouldn't get too worked up about it.
Many of the commentators on theatlantic.com use the resident bloggers' posts as a vessel to act out long-standing arguments / personality conflicts. It really doesn't matter what the topic is, as evidenced by Ms. McArdle's more-or-less innocuous post deriding the Obama-as-the-Antichrist-conspiracy-theory theory. Imagine the hyperbole and showmanship of pro-wrestling acted-out by nerdy, anonymous introverts over a digital pipe, trading ten-cent words instead of hay-makers. Your blog doesn't set the tone, it's just the venue.
Great image Breukelyne. Hilarious.