Goodbye Cool World

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 5:11 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 17:11

Well, I've kinda enjoyed my stay here on Kos. But not so much that I'd want to stay. What was, during the election, a sight dedicated to electing Democrats has devolved into a continuous pie-fight between those who get what Obama is doing and those who don't. And those who don't are by far the loudest, least disciplined, most emotion-driven and least thoughtful members of the community. They dominate the conversation with appeals to emotion, ignorance, authority and sheer skreechiness.

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Tuesday December 09, 2008 · 5:37 AM PST

2008/12/09 · 05:37

One of the worst side-effects of the Bush Administration's bald-faced lies and cynical strategies has been the rise of the PTSD Progressive community, a community so damaged by years of mendacious lies and incompetent management that they cannot believe in the change before their eyes.

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Saturday December 06, 2008 · 10:03 AM PST

2008/12/06 · 10:03

Dear Markos,

I just wanted to wish you a very happy holiday, and give you the gift of blingee. So I decided to bling up your family holiday picture:

Wow! You look all look great! Eli and Ari are so darn cute! And blingee!

But then I thought "If a little blingee is good, then way too much blingee must be better!"

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Take your pick

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Take your pick

Markos Family Holiday Blingee

8 votes

Badass Masthead

2 votes

Tasteful Holidy Masthead

4 votes

Holiday Masthead, After Dark

5 votes

Happy Mr. Markos

1 vote

Cthulhu

3 votes

The Dark Side of the Force

1 vote

Pancake Jamboree!

2 votes

Eggs & Bacon

3 votes

Scholarly Wisdom

1 vote

Season's Greetings!

2 votes

Happy Holidays!

0 votes

Blingee?

0 votes

Wonkette!

0 votes

Pie

2 votes

Atheists Are Ruining Xmas For Everyone!

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Friday December 05, 2008 · 9:45 AM PST

2008/12/05 · 09:45

I know, it's that time of year again. The time of year when downtrodden Christians innocently go out singing about and decorating the world with their Love of Our Savior Jesus Christ. And just like every year, those intolerant Atheists who control our nation with their massive cabalistic organization, their top-down organized branch of hate, try to ruin it for us all by not believing in God.

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Atheism is

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Atheism is

oppressed

17 votes

valid

16 votes

Mumbai, Esau and Jacob

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Monday December 01, 2008 · 11:38 AM PST

2008/12/01 · 11:38

Over the weekend I attended a Jewish service (at a "schull" "shuul" or "schuul," get used to me using that term for synagogue or temple) for a friend's baby-naming ceremony. The baby was a wonderful pink lump who barely opened her eyes the whole two and a half hours. Unfortunately the rabbi was less-than-wonderful, closing her own eyes to tragedy and bigotry.

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Monday November 17, 2008 · 10:52 AM PST

2008/11/17 · 10:52

Or that's what two popular diaries I read today tell me. They also tell me that Obama is milquetoast, incapable of holding his own against other ideas, unable to navigate the choppy waters of politics. We rail against the conservatives for their policy failures. We rail against our own for policies that haven't even been tried.

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7 votes

12 votes

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16 votes

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11 votes

9 votes

7 votes

14 votes

Statesmanship v. Schmuckery: Another Joe Lieberman Diary

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Thursday November 13, 2008 · 1:13 PM PST

2008/11/13 · 13:13

Vengeance is sweet, but, like candy, is often disappointing when it's over. I, as much as anyone in this community, would like revenge on Joe Lieberman for his sanctimonious Senate campaign, his war mongering, and his back-stabbing campaign against Barack Obama during the election. Let me be very clear here: I'm not a nice person. I like to see my enemies twist in the wind. Schadenfreude is my favorite emotion.

But, as I read cooler heads' thoughts on the future of Joe Lieberman, I have found myself persuaded to delay vengeance in the name of Statesmanship.

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Lieberman is

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Lieberman is

a self-serving politician

5 votes

a war hawk

0 votes

a social liberal

0 votes

a Jew

0 votes

a miserable schmuck

8 votes

a huge jackass

3 votes

John McCain's buddy

1 vote

from Connecticut

0 votes

all of the above

24 votes

doomed if he runs again

1 vote

never invited to pancake jamborees

2 votes

Cthulhu's minion

4 votes

on my shit list

8 votes

a big disappointment to Al Gore

1 vote

Pie?

2 votes

Agreeing with George W. Bush

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 8:38 AM PST

2008/11/10 · 08:38

If you've read Audacity of Hope, then you've read about Obama's meeting with President Bush upon his assumption of his Senate seat. If you haven't, here is the relevant excerpt.

President Bush gets two things right during this meeting. The first is on the importance of using hand sanitizer:

The president turned to an aide nearby, who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president's hand.

"Want some?" the president asked. "Good stuff. Keeps you from getting colds." Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt.

As a germ-phobic, I heartily agree with President Bush's position. Please wash your hands well and use hand sanitizer if possible. But that wasn't the only useful thing President Bush said to Obama during that conversation. He also warned him who his enemies would be.

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I agree with George W. Bush on

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I agree with George W. Bush on

Gunnin'

10 votes

Clearin' Brush

5 votes

Aid to Africa (really, he's good on this)

11 votes

Immigration (really, he's pretty good on this too)

5 votes

Hand Sanitizer

9 votes

Bike riding

6 votes

Getting lots of rest

6 votes

Other (see comments)

0 votes

The UnAmericanism of Droogie6655321

8 votes

Wozzles

0 votes

Pooties

2 votes

Cthulhu

4 votes

Pancake Jamborees

0 votes

Pie

7 votes

Scarborough dropping the F-Bomb!

2 votes

The Seventh Biannual Democratic Running of the Trolls

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 9:06 AM PST

2008/11/07 · 09:06

This is Simon Pericles the 10th, of the BBC, reporting to you here live from sunny Moulitsas Downs, where we're about to witness the Seventh Biannual Running of the Trolls. This ancient and beautiful Democratic Internets tradition has its roots in the flagellation of the Democrats after their stunning congressional losses in 1994. You'll remember that the Democratic party was then beset by concern trolling Beltway pundits and "strategists" advising the Democrats to be more like Republicans, try a "third way," piddle on everyone else, and just basically offering advice best described as "clown shoes."

Thus the tradition was established, and win or lose, the Democratic Party has proudly continued the Biannual Democratic Running of the Trolls to offer self-aggrandizement and bloody awful self-destructive ideas after each election.

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7th Biannual DRT Winner is:

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7th Biannual DRT Winner is:

Progressive Purity Troll

23 votes

Racist Troll

2 votes

DC Cocktail Circuit Concern Troll

7 votes

Conservative Pundit Troll

5 votes

PUMA Troll

9 votes

Antisemitic Troll

1 vote

Hardcore Wingnut Troll

9 votes

None of the Above

0 votes

All of the Above

15 votes

Cthulhu

13 votes

dunno, but I'm having a Pancake Jamboree afterwards

7 votes

America!

2 votes

SPX

2 votes

Other Type of Troll (See Comment)

1 vote

The BBC

3 votes

"Thank You – Thank All of You!" -- Americans for the 1st Time

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 8:42 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 08:42

One of my closest friends here in DC grew up through desegregation. Her grandmother was born into slavery. And today she's damn proud to be able to say to her grandson "Yes, Eric, you really can grow up to be the President."

This morning she asked me . . . (the rest below the fold)

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I'm still

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gobsmacked

2 votes

dumbstruck

1 vote

crying sporadically

9 votes

crying constantly

0 votes

delirous

2 votes

giddy

2 votes

concern trolling

0 votes

eating a cheeseburger

1 vote

worshipping Cthulhu

1 vote

headed to a pancake jamboree!

0 votes

crazy after all these years

4 votes

hopeful

1 vote

thankful

2 votes

two sandwiches short of a picnic

0 votes

wearing someone else's underwear

0 votes

"When I Grow Up I Want to Be Like Racky-Bama!"

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 4:58 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 04:58

If you've ever read The Audacity of Hope, you will remember the chapter about a man that Obama met in Southern Illinois who had been invited to the local "private dinner club." When he arrived, he noticed that no one from the town's large and generally well-received black community was present. He asked about it and was informed that it was a whites-only "private dinner club." He walked out. Barack Obama then writes about the importance of lending each other a hand to help each other across the racial divide left by the Three-Fifths Compromise, Slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism. He writes that resisting this terrible history can be like swimming across a river, and that it's good to give someone a hand to get them out of the river, The River of Our Racial Divide.

In the words of another famous story from the campaign, "I'm doing it for Ashley."

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Laughing

2 votes

Delirious

5 votes

Hung Over

3 votes

VERY Hung Over

2 votes

Crying Sporadically

12 votes

Crying my eyes out

1 vote

Crying after reading this story

8 votes

Damn Proud to be an American

22 votes

Having coffee. Wazzup?

1 vote

Staggered

4 votes

Wonderful wonderful wonderful and yet again wonderful

15 votes

Unfazed

3 votes

heading to a pancake jamboree

0 votes

worshipping Cthulhu

2 votes

happy droogie6655321 is back

6 votes

Hoosier Surprise: Poll Report from Vincennes Indiana (the SW riverlands)

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 12:06 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 12:06

Ok, to recap: my mom started this year as a hardcore HRC fan. She and I had a long cold war after the primary. Now, thanks in large part to the selection of Sarah Palin, she's working for the Obama Campaign!

In fact, she's a poll-watcher in a town that was anything but friendly towards the Obama Campaign: it was one of the only towns where an Obama HQ was vandalized! So when mom called this afternoon, I didn't expect a good report. Man, was I surprised!

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Hoosiers are

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Hoosiers are

from Indiana

114 votes

Rednecks

4 votes

Hillbillies

3 votes

Hayseeds

1 vote

Dirts

1 vote

Trailertrash

1 vote

Whitetrash

4 votes

Hicks

3 votes

Low Information Voters

5 votes

Racists

1 vote

OMFG Voting for OBAMA!

200 votes

turning our red state blue!

56 votes

seeing the light!

51 votes

AWESOME!

78 votes

Salt of the Goddam Earth!

79 votes

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Goodbye Cool World

PTSD Progressives (NOT another SYFPH Diary)

Happy Holidays Markos & Family! With Hanukkah Update! (Mirth)

Atheists Are Ruining Xmas For Everyone!

Mumbai, Esau and Jacob

Talk Me Down: Doris Kearns Goodwin and the Clintons Are Our Enemies???

Statesmanship v. Schmuckery: Another Joe Lieberman Diary

Agreeing with George W. Bush

The Seventh Biannual Democratic Running of the Trolls

"Thank You – Thank All of You!" -- Americans for the 1st Time

"When I Grow Up I Want to Be Like Racky-Bama!"

Hoosier Surprise: Poll Report from Vincennes Indiana (the SW riverlands)