Save Your Breath

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Friday September 10, 2010 · 6:30 AM PDT

2010/09/10 · 06:30

I'm going to keep this short, because my point is short, but I feel it needs to be made. It's not a comment because it's not in response to a single diary, but in response to dozens of diaries that get posted here daily.

Save your breath.

I'm talking to the diarists who are scolding people who won't vote in November. I'm talking to the diarists preaching doom and gloom of what will happen if/when the GOP takes majorities in November, as if alerting us to this fact for the first time.

ebbv

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Friday July 30, 2010 · 4:20 PM PDT

2010/07/30 · 16:20

Dear BP,

I know your plan all along was to make Tony Hayward the face of the catastrophe in the gulf, and that once you felt public interest was waning you thought you could just fire him and then swipe your hands together and declare that you are done, but I have news for you.

You are not fucking done.

Now taking bets as to whether our supposedly progressive government actually steps up and holds these motherfuckers accountable...

Unfuckingbelievable.

ebbv

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Tuesday July 27, 2010 · 12:48 PM PDT

2010/07/27 · 12:48

So kos linked to this post on Balloon Juice in the Mid-day post, calling the article "pretty compelling". I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with him on that.

First of all I'd say that there's nothing special about that post compared to the usual "Stop criticizing Obama! Support him more!" arguments that have been going on since his campaign started. Those posts came in response to criticism of his support of the FISA bill in 2008, they come back every time anyone says anything critical.

The post also unfortunately engages in the lame belittling of the other side that does no one any good.

ebbv

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Friday June 11, 2010 · 12:14 PM PDT

2010/06/11 · 12:14

On 05/23/2010 I was coming home on a lovely sunny day here in Ann Arbor, MI enjoying the day and some tunes coming through on my car stereo. I saw a red Miata behind me in traffic, a good friend of mine had recently gotten one and I glanced to see if it was him in the driver seat. It wasn't. At the moment I realized this I also realized that the car in front of me had suddenly stopped at the intersection as the light turned yellow. Cars in the lane to our right were still going through.

I stomped hard on my brakes, which had never failed me before, however there just wasn't enough time or distance and my car slammed into the back of the one in front of me at about 40 miles per hour.

ebbv

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Wednesday March 17, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/03/17 · 10:14

Alright, so I understand the logic behind the mandate. If they can get fairly young and healthy people like me (31 and run 25+ miles per week) insured, then that helps profits because I probably won't cost a lot. That's the theory, and I guess it makes sense if you assume that the insurance companies are having a problem making a profit. Which just isn't true.

But the thing is, I'm not uninsured because I want to be. I'm uninsured because my employer doesn't provide insurance and I can't afford the insane rates the greedy insurance companies are charging.

ebbv

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 7:30 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 19:30

He abandoned me.

We have been calling on him since before he even won the election to stick to his promises. To stick to his rhetoric, which we naively assumed he actually meant at the time.

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Friday December 25, 2009 · 7:24 AM PST

2009/12/25 · 07:24

Being a miserable misanthrope, I'm usually single on X-mas, and find myself (like today) battling severe depression. Watching "The Squid and the Whale" last night and finding out the news that singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt made a suicide attempt yesterday (not clear if he's dead yet or not) this morning are only compounding it.

So in the interest of helping an fellow Kossacks facing a similar situation, I thought I'd share some ways I'm fighting it today.

ebbv

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 7:54 AM PST

2009/12/21 · 07:54

I've seen President Obama and now Senator Franken in a diary on this very site claim that the new bill is going to provide 31 million americans with access to insurance.

To me that wording comes off as a lie. At least in my case as one of those 31 million it's assisting me but it's assisting me at the barrel of a gun.

ebbv

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 12:32 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 12:32

So today I once again saw the King of All Strawmen rear his misshapen, flaxen head. This time conjured forth by the words of Matthew Yglesias directed at Taibbi for his recent rant.

The King of All Strawmen is basically this:

Obama doesn't have magic powers, he can't enact the changes you want with a wave of his hand! He has various and sundry obstacles in his path.

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 1:31 PM PST

2009/12/11 · 13:31

A ridiculous amount of calls of "straw men" have been arising lately, and I think the majority of them are actually justified. There's a lot of really bad form going on. Maybe part of this is people getting emotional instead of rational and thoughtful, but I think just as big is the portion of people who have never learned to properly engage in discussion online. I see a lot of people who appear to be oblivious to even the basic rules.

I thought it would be good to share some of those rules as a refresher course for those who know them already, and as an important primer for those who don't.

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 8:39 AM PST

2009/11/19 · 08:39

So I often see progressives cite Andrew Sullivan as a level-headed and intelligent conservative. A voice of reason and concerned, rational former Republican.

I can see where they can easily fall into this trap, since he does have the sense to call Palin what she is, and in the later years of the Bush administration, he woke up to the horror of what he had formerly supported so vociferously.

But in reality, Sullivan is a stupid jackass.

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Friday November 13, 2009 · 12:59 PM PST

2009/11/13 · 12:59

Right now there are two separate diaries addressing the "boycott of Obama", or more accurately, the campaign to get Obama and the rest of the elected Democratic officials to follow through on their party platform and campaign promises to the LGBT community.

Both of those diaries purport to be from progressives, but to me they both strike me as at best middle of the road. Much of the sentiment of those diarists and many of the commenters is blatantly ridiculous.

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Save Your Breath

Dear BP

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How am I going to afford the mandated insurance?

I haven't abandoned Obama

Fighting Depression on X-mas

Please Stop LYING

The King of All Strawmen

Internet Discussion 101

Sullivan is a Jackass

You Call Yourself Progressive?