Every once in a while there's a miscommunication, or something goes wrong, and the time for posting Top Comments passes without any such posting. Tonight is one of those nights.
Because we don't like to skip nights—the last time we did so was in 2006—what's going to appear below the jump is going to be a bumper crop of top comment submissions from all of you. The top comments email account has a round dozen comments in it, and brillig is downloading and formatting them all while I do a quick round of top mojo. If you jump the fold, you'll see it all below.
I haven't been around much lately due to a major project that was sucking up 80 hours a week and leaving me with the creative power of a snail. (As you can see, creativity has not entirely returned, alas.)
This means brillig has been doing all the heavy lifting around here for the past month or so, which is probably why I asked her to download the comments while I got the top mojo. Be very sure to tip her comments tonight; she deserves a ton of recognition.
Tonight, as noted above, a great many of you sent email to:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
We like it when people do that, because that's more great comments for all of us to read. Thank you one and all. Let's get to them, and enjoy.
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From Icbo:
AtomikNY articulates precisely what is wrong with the Republican party these days.
From Allison In Seattle:
David Kroning notes semantic differences.
From blueyescryinintherain:
Crashing Vor's thoughts on Sarah Palin from The Termite's diary today. (*JML9999* also nominated this one, so you know it's a good one!)
From Dragon5616:
Bob Dylan said, "Don't hate nothin' at all except hatred." Apparently, there's plenty of it to hate over at Faux News. rb608 offers a pretty comprehensive list in Jed Lewison's front page post Another massive narrative fail from Fox.
global citizen summed up the entire meta of the Bush presidency in one sentence in Al Rodgers's beautiful photo diary, Masterpiece (UPDATE: Obama makes surprise visit to Pyramids
From Youffraita:
Thought this exchange by Caelian in the diary about the Reagan statue was very funny.
From Liz Dexic:
In the comments following the diary by Amplify Your Voice is a discussion on birth control methods and whether or not masturbation is viewed similarly, mattman contributes this choicy tidbit (it's priceless).
From virgomusic:
In ereshkigal's diary on transgender hate, RandomActsOfReason's comment contains a quote worth keeping:
The first reaction of a progressive should be not to look at who is the target of hate, but to reject the hate first.
From SallyCat:
This thread by voroki...among many...has all the right comebacks in a CT diary. Glad the diary and comments are still there, and the CT diarist isn't! Cheers to newbies that are as warped as the old timers!
From Wee Mama:
hilarious pseudo-biblical reference to pi by Wisper in a conspiracy diary that doesn't deserve it.
From Jill Richardson:
hehehe sodomizing by JerichoJ8 (comment formatter's note: you let me format, you takes your chances. Be warned...)
Finally, today's top mojo using my revision of the cskendrick-devised mojo-to-Excel process.
First, Top Mojo excluding Cheers and Jeers, search-identifiable tip jars, and first diary comments:
1) We worked hard to make it possible. by chicago jeff — 297
2) we endured 8 lost years of american potential by mysticlaker — 154
3) OK, Is Anyone Else Like Me by CityLightsLover — 146
4) Stay for the community by donnamarie — 136
5) Thank you for the eye candy by Airmid — 124
6) Under Bush -- by global citizen — 121
7) Hannity's America!!!! by Lava20 — 114
8) Very true, and we cannot afford to by Oke — 105
9) I am so proud of our president. by mofembot — 96
10) We need to fight domestic terrorism by DrJeremy — 88
11) Yeah...I worked my ass off...for my grandkids by SallyCat — 87
12) There's a general sense here that by Seneca Doane — 85
13) Another important tidbit by NLinStPaul — 84
14) I can hear Cairo from my house. by pat208 — 84
15) also identified as anti-semite. And I think he by dotster — 83
16) And that is the thing that I can never, ever by mmacdDE — 82
17) I thought my vote was going to count by nolalily — 81
18) sometimes i feel the same way by andycon — 81
19) As one of my French colleagues by blue jersey mom — 79
20) It's powerful. by TomP — 78
21) OK, guys consider what just happened by cskendrick — 77
22) I hate to use that term. I'm retiring because by Maimonides — 77
23) NPR's self regard is infuriating by ProduceMan — 76
24) Let me add-it wasn't just just us or for Obama... by chicago jeff — 75
25) Wow Al, by I love OCD — 75
26) Please try to make them understand by Brooke In Seattle — 75
27) I'll make this easy for you.. by Setrak — 74
28) CNN was glowing all morning by mdmslle — 73
29) Donna Smith on Single-Payer by Scarce — 69
30) According to Randi Rhodes today, it was more than by doinaheckuvanutjob — 69
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Ain't gonna study war no more. by Maimonides — 666
2) tip jar by pavlov dog — 658
3) What did we do to deserve this? by nwgates — 520
4) Thanks again for any comments by nyceve — 484
5) Tips? by Keith Pickering — 414
6) Tips and Recommendations by fflambeau — 394
7) We worked hard to make it possible. by chicago jeff — 297
8) tips by thereisnospoon — 281
9) Tips for institutional memory by Seneca Doane — 273
10) Tip Jar? by ereshkigal — 270
11) Tips for by TomP — 263
12) Tips for a little rain by WineRev — 190
13) tip & recs for truth, justice by DrSteveB — 179
14) Tip jar by writerkirk — 170
15) we endured 8 lost years of american potential by mysticlaker — 154
16) OK, Is Anyone Else Like Me by CityLightsLover — 146
17) Stay for the community by donnamarie — 136
18) Thank you for the eye candy by Airmid — 124
19) Under Bush -- by global citizen — 121
20) Hannity's America!!!! by Lava20 — 114
21) Tips and hums by khloemi — 110
22) Very true, and we cannot afford to by Oke — 105
23) I am so proud of our president. by mofembot — 96
24) The movie opens June 12 by Jill Richardson — 95
25) tip jar by Yemtex — 93
26) Tips/Recs/Flames n/t by icebergslim — 89
27) We need to fight domestic terrorism by DrJeremy — 88
28) Yeah...I worked my ass off...for my grandkids by SallyCat — 87
29) Tip jar by The Termite — 85
30) Cheers by Wife of Bath — 85
31) There's a general sense here that by Seneca Doane — 85
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