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In a recent thread I’ve been finding very stimulating, Amanda wrote:
I was swept up in Naderite thinking in my wayward youth, and for me, it was an impatience. I just knew there had to be a tool to force Democrats to move to the left in one, swift blow. But then I came [...]

Technical problems?

This is very odd. Yesterday I wrote a post here, which still exists, but it’s not showing up on the PunkAssBlog front page. Or at least not on my computer.
Does anyone else see it?
(I will delete this post once we sort out what’s going on here.)
UPDATE: I really don’t understand what’s going on here. I [...]

Lisa and I would like to hash it out a bit and try to figure out constructive rules for engaging each other when we disagree. At least between the two of us. It may be relevant for others as well, too, though. I won’t provide a link, but I still vividly remember a great moment of shame in this blog’s history, when for the sake of a minor rhetorical ploy, a recently-deceased pet was virtually sodomized.

So what the hell, we can at least have a go at setting some ground rules for proper snarky manners. It’ll be a snoozer for most people, but for anyone interested, I hereby decree that this thread will be where we try to agree among ourselves just exactly how punkass a PunkAssBlogger ought to be. (Or at least how punkass me and Lisa ought to be.)

It’ll probably just be us two, but outside opinions are welcome.

(I’m off to bed now. When I wake up in the morning I expect there to be dozens of messages telling us exactly how unbearably snottily dismissive we are. Come on, people, don’t let me down!)

Well, I just watched the debates myself. Via YouTube. The easiest YouTube to find was via Fox News’s feed, which was annoying because they so often did closeups or split-screens of the candidates and never did wider shots– so I couldn’t judge for myself if it was true, that McCain was supposedly never able to [...]

I’m not really at a moment in my life where I’m able to post properly, alas. Just thought I’d pop in to register a quick nod acknowledging that this Hellbound handbasket we’re all riding in has just picked up some steam, now that the Democrats appear to be joining hands with the Republicans to raid [...]

My parents just retired and bought a beach house in Galveston. Their timing was stunning.
Who knows if their house is still there. But, they’re safe in Austin and that’s all that matters as far as they’re concerned. The 140,000 others who ignored evacuation orders and stuck around, on the other hand, faced “certain death”, at [...]

By the way, if you haven’t watched any of Amanda and Marc’s new series, RH Reality Check, please do so now. They’re really great. I am so proud.
(They’re on YouTube, too, for any who might have trouble with Vimeo.)
Normally, Our Glorious Founder Punkass Marc does his magic behind the camera, but he makes a [...]

A: The ones doing the killing never seem to care if the intelligence it’s based on is actually true.
Q: Why not?
Brad Hicks: (emphasis mine)

If you studied American history prior to about 2000, even if you studied it at the college level, you were almost certainly taught something wrong, because the truth was one of America’s [...]

Peace

It was my first day in England, where I had flown with my brother to join the cast of a play. We were wide-eyed and jetlagged, and all of a sudden these guys in a pub are grabbing my arm and asking if I was American, and that somebody had flown a plane into one [...]

Lamb vs Lamb

In comments, Elizabeth points out the Sarah Palin is not the only veep pick with a son headed to Iraq. Hey, I did not know that. I actually watched the first few minutes of Biden’s DNC speech, but I missed that part (as I’m assuming he brought it up at SOME point). I turned it [...]

Did you know that Punkass Marc used to play bass in a rock band with me? “Who’s Punkass Marc?” most of you are probably thinking. But that’s a tale for another time.
I live in the largest megacity on the planet. World-class art of any kind is there to be had just about any day of [...]

Perhaps unlike most of the rest of you, I am not constantly inundated with election coverage where I am. So Lisa’s recent post was actually the first video I ever saw of Sarah Palin. On a purely presentational level– meaning having nothing to do with the Christian craziness coming from her mouth (which, frankly, is [...]




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