It's Monday Morning and about one degree outside here in Chicago. Thought this might be a good a time as any for a little experiment I've wanted to try since before the election when I regularly frequented republican blogs in an attempt to convince wingnuts of the error of their ways.
Yes, yes, I now know that it would be easier to sell Stevie Wonder* a Hustler subscription than to get a republican to consider an alternate viewpoint, but hey, I gave it a shot.
The thing is, I used to think that this stubborn behavior pattern, this tendency to cling to a viewpoint like it was wrapped around a main artery, was a trait indiginous to the dittoheads and Hannitites.
That was before the election.
Since the election, I've been following a lot of the "spats" out there lately, and even participated in one or two, and it has been a bit of a shock to me to realize that people on the left can be just as stubborn and inflexible at times as Anne Coulter's clenched jaws must become upon her husbands annual birthday fellatio request**.
I must say, My ennui*** regarding the debate about Ohio has now reached a level I have not experienced since Dick Cavett went off the air. I'ts not that I don't care about the election, I'm just fucking sick to death of talking about it.
I know, I'm talking about it now, but hey if we can be as stubborn as republicans, we might as well go for hypocrisy while we're at it.
So anyway, to my experiment: Like I was talking about, back when I used to make sport of debating republicans, the thing that struck me was how long and drawn out these battles used to get. In our zeal to cover every logical flaw, to forsee the opponents every retort and pre-tort it, the posts tended to become rather, um, long.
So since noones mind ever got changed anyway, I had always wanted to challenge some freepers to a debate where posts and responses were limited to say, six words or less.
So since I never got around to this with the freepers, I thought it might be fun to try here, especially since we seem to have so much to argue about lately.
Rules of Engagement:Think of this like the
Rapid-fire segment of
Crossfire in blog format.
(I consider this the best part of Crossfire just because I like watching Robert Novak's pomposity in double time).
So if you'd like to join in, remember to keep your phrasing to SIX Words or Less and hopefully put in some form of coherent form.
KEEP ALL TEXT WITHIN THE TITLE AREA OF YOUR FORM the comment area is not needed for this contest
Example:
What about Cuyahoga County?
OR
All hearsay and no proof
Easy right? Well we shall see, remember this is an experiment which is also code-speak for "This could turn out to be totally stupid so don't blame me if it does".
One More Rule: No troll rating. Fours are fine to reward good ones and gotchas but 3's 2's and especially 1's and 0's are forbidden here.
The only exceptions to this rule are:
1.If you exceed the six word limit.
2.If you break the troll rating rule and draw first blood.
If anyone breaks either of these rules, then the rest of us should feel free to, in fact we should feel obligated, to bombard your ass with 1's and 0's until you are blown into oblivion. So be careful and don't forget to count your words. Your mojo is on the line
So that's about it.
Let the speed debate begin.
* Or if you prefer, Ray Charles, Jose Feliciano or Master Po of Kung Fu fame
**For this analogy, I was going to go with the image of Rush Limbaugh being force fed broccoli in re-hab, but between broccoli and fellatio, fellatio wins every time
***For republican readers, ennui (pronounced: ON-WE)means boredom...it's french