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by digby

Haloscan has been acting weird over the past few days, apparently because I decided to have the comment section moderated now and there was a technical glitch on some of the threads. It seems to be working on the new ones. Here are the ground rules. If you want to fight about the primary you can only do so when it is on topic (and they will still be moderated for abuse and general assholishness, as will all threads.) All comments about the primary on threads about other subjects will not be posted, so don't waste your time.

The blogosphere is now in a nearly hysterical feedback loop that creates a certain intensity. That's fine, but the comments tend to hurl out of control on every topic and it draws my nasty stalkers, wasting a lot of my time and emotional energy. There are tons of blogs eager to host a running conversation on the topic, so there's no free speech issue and no lack of opportunity to wallow in the subject 24/7 if you like.

As always, I value all thoughtful commentary and appreciate everyone who comes here to read our scribbles.

This is why Hullabaloo was added to my links, and Americablog was taken off. I have zero desire to wallow in the Democratic primary bitchiness.. even though it may seem that I enjoy bitchiness. I do.. when it's substantive bitching at Conservatives for being a bunch of assholes..

Americablog is one of those "tons of blogs" Digby is referring to, and it does moderate it's comments as well.. but if the comment is a nasty bitch slap at Clinton.. that's just fine.

I certainly do NOT enjoy the whacked-the-fuck-out people.. even if they are "lefties".

/update

I did a word search on Andrew Sullivan's blog just now.. for the word "Clinton".. it matched 44 times. You can be assured there was not a gracious word mentioned in connection. That doesn't include the number of times Sullivan referred to her only as "Hillary".

I'm still an Obama supporter.. but the allure of a Clinton presidency making all of these assholes loose their minds is so fucking tempting.. I have to keep telling myself that indeed, that's what they ultimately want.. 8 more years of Monica-Gate, Drudge-style, blogging.. It would feed their rampant narcissism.

In that sense.. go Obama! It would shut them the fuck up.. finally..

.. because, in the end, there's going to be very little policy difference between a Clinton presidency and an Obama presidency.

/update 2

Reading the email in-tray and absorbing the latest news from Wyoming and looking at the delegate totals and the popular vote, it seems clearer to me that we Obama supporters for the Democratic nomination need to chill a little. - Andrew Sullivan

I swear to Gorak, I could not make this shit up.. I'm not that in-fucking-sane.

/update 3

Last one.. I promise..

I was lucky enough to be invited to an off-the-record dinner with the king and queen of Jordan last week. Under the rules, I can't say anything they said, but I did have a rare laugh. I was seated next to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post who was impressed, as anyone would be, with the beauty of one of his hosts.

"I've never seen a queen with muscle tone like that," he whispered over the starter.

He's clearly never been to my gym.

Sullivan, again, of course..

One hopes in the potential of the internet, and the new medium of journalism. The old journalism is all about access and narcissism. Admittedly, it would be difficult for me to write anything negative about the King of Jordan, if I were invited to dinner and made to feel important. I'm sure these "off the record" events are common.. and Joe Kline, et. all are frequent guests.. essentially being bought off before they've typed a single word.

I'd imagine that things have always functioned this way, and the "common man" has always had a glimmer of hope that somehow, things would change. Always, the rich and powerful have found the means to control the message and assure that there are two different standards when it comes to ethical behavior. We might think that the popularity of the "grassroots" may change things, but when rules get changed, the rule-makers just re-write them in their favor.

Or.. the more things change.. the more they stay the same. In the meantime.. I'll just enjoy bagging on those assholes in my little sliver of the great oxide.