Greetings from grumpy ol' Marko.
This is your usual Fuzzy Friday open thread diary posted to the Street Prophets group but we don't play favorites around here. Group or ungroup, all are welcome to sit a spell and partake of the refreshments.
I just got in from a long day, and the long week preceding has kinda gobbled up my usual diary creation time. I managed to swing through Daily Kos a couple of times during the week and I've been thinking about things around here.
Some of my beer garbled thoughts beyond the hairball.
It was a strange week in orange for me. I voiced my concerns about what I saw as a bit of horrible, partisan idiocy and was met by sympathy and agreement. I had a few productive exchanges of replies from that comment that I thought might draw at least a Rachel Maddow fan's ire. But no, the waters of the kiddie pool are truly refreshing folks.
Then I thought to weigh in on the side of literacy on the great wreck list debate over a comment made by our vacationing founder and I received one single defensive reply that seemed more like Michele Bachmann brand brain salad than a coherent response to my comment-- so I ignored it. A few people applauded the reply and I was left wondering what was going on.
I posted a comment about my bewildering encounter in another diary and tied it into my thought that the current impotency of the Democratic party is causing us to attack each other out of sheer frustration. The blame Obama crowd around here is now whining about how awful this blog's founder is or has become or something and all I want to do is slap them upside the head with a sardine and tell them all to go back to Redstate or whatever hole they crawled out of.
It was a strange week to be a caring member of the orange community. On the one hand I saw a reasonable reaction from people who recognized, as I pointed out, a shameful bit of partisan hackery from the lie-brul media for what it was-- even though the target of Maddow's attack was a person that I can't stand, I still believe that he was unfairly treated and I'm not such a rabid Democrat that I can forgive that sort of distortion even against Republicans-- even really horrible Republicans.
Then to see a similar flavor of disingenuous yowling arising over a comment here just left me with a bad taste in my mouth for blogging in general. I actually felt myself sympathizing with all the bloody nitwits who are always yammering on and on about groups of trolls on Daily Kos disrupting threads, uprating their awful comments. And yet, I really do see most of the disgruntled crap flinging around here as stemming from a need by many people to vent their anger and frustration. I myself don't agree with Markos on many subjects but the attacks on him in that one thread got personal and kinda ugly. Yet I didn't feel comfortable handing out a few Hide ratings in an environment where the initial critical remark was flooded with accolades and recs.
How do you deal with the pie fights when you encounter them?
I suppose the thing that bothered me most was that there wasn't any pie in that fight. Not until after I'd left the diary for dead did someone attempt to engage the initial critic and question their interpretation of Markos' comment.
So, on this hot, cricket-chirping night in Prague I've finished with my chirping.
What's on your mind tonight? How are the boggy blogs treating you?
And as always here on the Street, what's for dinner?