Goin’ Dark
I’m taking a long weekend and will not have access to the Internet, so don’t expect any new entries or comments until Sunday night at the earliest. If Wizbang Paul interprets my short-term silence as proof that I (1) quit blogging, (2) quit smoking, (3) started smoking, (4) changed my party registration to Green, (5) had a sex change operation, (6) married my dog, (7) became an avid reader of Glenn Greenwald, (8) intentionally started a blogwar, (9) decided Seixon must be lying about those death threats, or (10) begun to distance myself from the theory that Glenn Greenwald used sock puppets, he’s a weenie. Come to think of it, even if he doesn’t draw any of those conclusions, or any others, he’s still a weenie.
As you were.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
so you’re not quitting blogging?
July 28th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
No, he’s changing his party affiliation to the Greens.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
There’s not much of a Green Party presence here in VA. There are some serious religious sects in his neck of the woods, so I think it’s more likely that he’s off undergoing his initiation rites into whatever cult he decided to join.
And, with XRLQ not being around this weekend, what better time is there to fill his comments with all sorts of silly drivel? Oh that’s right, I do that while he’s around.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Don’t tell anybody, but I heard Ralph Nader debating Howard Dean during the last election and if W had not been running for reelection ….
July 30th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Hey, have any of you guys read Keith Laumer? He wrote a great series of science fiction stories featuring a guy named Retief, a junior diplomat of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. The Corps bears a striking resemblence to the US Foreign Service and Laumer is absolutely brutal in his portrayal.
It’s some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever read.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Doc, are you sure you’re not my long-lost twin brother? I have read all the Retief stories, I believe. And the BOLO stories — the cyborg tanks. He was very good at funny acronyms like “Criminals Railing Against Prisons’.
July 30th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Xrlq, what’s a Cupid stunt?
July 30th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
A cupid that hasn’t grown to its full potential?
July 30th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
One of my favorite Spoonerisms.
July 30th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Doc:
http://baen.com/library/0671318578/0671318578.htm
Some of the Retief stories are a bit long, but the best parts are timeless.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:22 am
Ah. The light dawns.
Welcome back.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:47 am
Oh no! He’s back!
Quick before he goes through and purges comments: nk, How could I have forgotten the Bolo stories? I loved all of them. But I don’t think that we could be related because you’re such a limp-wristed panty-waist about Ann Coulter being mean to widows. No offense meant, of course.
July 31st, 2006 at 5:55 am
Jeff should just stipulate that all 10 assertions are basically true and move on and let the healing begin.
Also, Keith Laumer’s awesome. Especially look for the Bolo books.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:09 am
None taken. I will be the first to admit that I am no Mike Hammer when it comes to women. They have always been able to wrap me around their little fingers. I even feel bad about beating up on Ann Coulter for beating up on the widows. If she looked a little less like a boy I might not have been able to bring myself to do it.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:58 am
So it’s Ann’s fault that you insult her, body, brains, and spirit?
Do boys where you come from typically have blonde hair down to chest level?
July 31st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I entered adolescence in 1967. So yes, back then boys did have hair down to chest level (and even lower) and I have been scarred for life. ;)