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Big Journalism : Another Week, Another Shovelful Into the Grave of the Old Media

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:29:32 +0000

Thanks for the review of my extensive body of work. It's nice to know I have a devoted fan out there. i wish I could reciprocate, but then I'd have to care. Which I don't. But you keep at it -- maybe I'll send you an autographed photo you can stick on your basement wall. #Caring

Big Journalism : Another Week, Another Shovelful Into the Grave of the Old Media

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:27:02 +0000

Thanks for your powerful analysis of the points I raised in the article. Because you pointed out that months ago I got in an amusing pissing contest with some Santa Monica derelict who was hassling a woman with me and babbling about Lew Wasserman, I'm now able to see that my premises are flawed and the foundations of my argument are shaky. But I'd expect no less from a Senior Fellow at Media Matters! I hope you keep sharing your powerful insights with us here at the "Bigs" -- I know I'm wiser for experiencing them. #Caring

Big Government : Going On the Offense: Some Lessons for Our Side

Mon, 9 May 2011 13:25:01 +0000

A powerful recommendation and validation of my ideas by noted genius FJR1300a. BTW F, you misspelled "bitch." Now, back to your particle physics graduate work!

Big Hollywood : Will Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Mark Boal's Latest Attack on our Troops Land on the Big Screen?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:05:39 +0000

You have zero understanding of the current counterinsurgency strategy and doctrine in use in Afghanistan. Your statements are literally the exact opposite of reality - everything you write is inaccurate, right down to the punctuation. My only question is whether your comments constitute active ignorance or rank dishonesty; I am guessing it is a combination of them both. There's no need to respond to this - we will not be discussing this further. You are unworthy of additional attention. I simply wish to let those confused by your comments know that their gut response was correct -- your comments are not only nonsense but malignant lies spewed by a fool. Those interested in the truth about our counterinsurgency strategy need not take my word for it. They can read it for themselves at http://www.isaf.nato.int/from-the-commander/from-.... As for you, I'm glad that you took the opportunity to exercise the rights provided to you by the efforts of better men and women than you will ever be. We're done. You're dismissed.

Big Hollywood : Wikileaks Proves America-Hating Hollywood Really Does Hate America

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:50:18 +0000

A coherent critique well worth considering. Thanks. You're welcome to come on over to our side anytime.

Big Government : The VFW Ignores Its Members to Suck Up to Anti-Military Washington Incumbents

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:58:08 +0000

You feel that way because you are a half-wit.

Big Government : The VFW Ignores Its Members to Suck Up to Anti-Military Washington Incumbents

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:47:14 +0000

You're scared abut fellow Americans disagreeing wth you? Dude, if you had been in some of the places I served and some of the places the rank & file of the VFW served, maybe you would not be so cavalier in running down the freedom that you've been handed on a silver plater.

Big Government : The VFW Ignores Its Members to Suck Up to Anti-Military Washington Incumbents

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:41:59 +0000

LostinOregon, you are my hero.

Big Peace : Annoying Leftist Bumperstickers (Part 2): The Revenge

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:50:19 +0000

I'm proud of them too, and it's great to have a chance to let pople know, in my small way, about the incredible bravery of these American heroes.

Big Journalism : JournoList and the MSM Template: Minimize, Marginalize, and Drop It Down the Memory Hole

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:15:45 +0000

Please note that the following paragraph and some other excerpts from the great Daily Caller article were inadvertently not indented. My bad! -- Katha Pollitt – Hayes’s colleague at the Nation – didn’t disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. “I hear you. but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita,” Pollitt said.

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:46:54 +0000

I'm glad you clarified it wasn't a threat. The Feds don't like threats made across state lines. I think you ought to read my 4-part comments and thoughts on the issue of legalization in the comments - my column focused on something else. And I don't do criminal law - I don't like criminals. But if I did, and if I defended you, and you did nothing wrong, I bet I would have won. But if you participated in a conspiracy to distribute narcotics, well, you knew the price of admission to that show going in. And if you did what the jury (or judge) thought you did, or what you pleaded guilty to, no one was going to be able to help you.

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:42:03 +0000

I may be a "two bit shyster lawyer wannabe writer" but I'm not a convicted felon. So, convict, save your threats - you don't wanna get in trouble with your parole officer.

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:14:25 +0000

(Part IV) Also, I note that George Soros, an intelligent, even cunning man, strongly supports drug legalization. To me, this is powerful evidence against it. When, how and in what form has Soros ever advocated any policy that would make America a stronger, better nation? In short, the legalization side has powerful arguments, but totally fails to confront the totality of the issue, often preferring libertarian posturing to a total analysis of the consequences. Getting on your high horse about how only you truly care for personal liberty is not only nonsense but annoying – I wear dispositive documentation of my personal commitment to human freedom on the left breast of my dress uniform, mac. And mischaracterizing counterarguments – who says they want “a drug free utopia,” as if the criminalization argument isn’t just to try and control drug abuse? – is counterproductive. So, in short, I’m willing to have the discussion – but a full and complete discussion, not just volleys of clichés that shed no light on the issue. And, finally, Sting still sucks.

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:06:27 +0000

Also, I note that George Soros, an intelligent, even cunning man, strongly supports drug legalization. To me, this is powerful evidence against it. When, how and in what form has Soros ever advocated any policy that would make America a stronger, better nation? In short, the legalization side has powerful arguments, but totally fails to confront the totality of the issue, often preferring libertarian posturing to a total analysis of the consequences. Getting on your high horse about how only you truly care for personal liberty is not only nonsense but annoying – I wear dispositive documentation of my personal commitment to human freedom on the left breast of my dress uniform, mac. And mischaracterizing counterarguments – who says they want “a drug free utopia,” as if the criminalization argument isn’t just to try and control drug abuse? – is counterproductive. So, in short, I’m willing to have the discussion – but a full and complete discussion, not just volleys of clichés that shed no light on the issue. And, finally, Sting still sucks.

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:06:17 +0000

Whether it’s in having to deal with more losers on the street as we go about our business, or in having to pick up the tab for them when their battered bodies finally conk out (I doubt most of the big talkers out there would be willing to let the addicts die without the medical care the addicts won’t be able to afford), we’d end up subsidizing their “choice.” The notion that the scumbag drug dealers would simply go legit when their drug money dries up post-legalization (Forgetting that the kiddie market would still be there – unless the legalizers support allowing 12 year olds to score too) is ridiculous. I note none of the commenters even addressed that point from my piece. I could point out how the Mafia disappeared completely after Prohibition was repealed, except it didn’t – they just moved into other criminal endeavors and continued to grow. Drug dealers did not become criminals because drugs are illegal; they were criminals who came to drugs because drugs are easy money. And if drugs stop being easy money, they’ll do some other kind of crime – perhaps one that affects the rest of us even more directly. (Part IV to Follow)

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:05:49 +0000

The biggest problem with the legalization argument is its habitual total avoidance, except for some rote nods to the obvious, of the disastrous consequences of drug use on society. In the place of confronting the reality of the damage drug abuse does to individuals, families and to our society, we get clichés about personal liberty. I frankly find many of those clichés very compelling, but a real discussion of drug law reform requires more than just repeating the very powerful and true mantra that the government presumptively has no business telling any of us what we can put in our bodies. We need to decide whether we want to live in a society where people can walk into the smack shop and shoot up on the sidewalk. The fact is, legalizing drugs would result in a significant portion of our population simply seceding from productive society and choosing to live in a drug-fueled haze (as a smaller group does even now). Sure, it’s their lives, but the rest of us will get handed the bill. (Part III to Follow)

Big Hollywood : Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-Drug Stupidity

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:03:56 +0000

Wow! I haven’t had so many people mad at me in the comments since I pointed out how stupid birtherism is. Since this really wasn’t a piece on how I feel about drug legalization but about how celebrities descend from their personal Olympuses to pontificate to us mere mortals and then ascend back into the heavens to let us del with the resulting mess, I will break my standard rule of letting my columns speak for themselves, since this one does not directly discuss my feelings about drug criminalization. Most of the fulminating commenters overlook – completely – my positive references to the conservative and libertarian critiques of drug policy exemplified by National Review and Reason. They also fail to point out how I mentioned that it was difficult me to get worked up about dope -moking stoners. Not a word appears in the column supporting long-term imprisonment of mere addicts. Finally, they fail to note that the harshness in my column is reserved solely for drug dealers. So, to the extent they are seeking some absolute Wahabi prohibitionist, that’s a strawman. Or, for my activist friends, perhaps I should say a hempman. (Part II to Follow)