tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1121151629762051267..comments2024-03-28T19:41:59.726-05:00Comments on driftglass: Somewhere, Beyond This Vale of Tearsdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63472154964173054082016-07-26T10:29:30.446-05:002016-07-26T10:29:30.446-05:00Aw. I was there when that picture was taken.
I mi...Aw. I was there when that picture was taken.<br /><br />I miss Steve like burning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89739658470940260052013-06-03T01:17:12.398-05:002013-06-03T01:17:12.398-05:00Goddamn, drifty, you sure do wield a polished pen-...Goddamn, drifty, you sure do wield a polished pen-equivalent. Thanks for bringing Gilly back for just a bit. He is terribly missed.ThePoliticalCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561906144646421575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75366427196539061802010-10-17T01:22:23.711-05:002010-10-17T01:22:23.711-05:00jurassicpork,
I did, yes. It was nicely done.jurassicpork,<br />I did, yes. It was nicely done.driftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3007412584564323312010-10-16T21:56:21.355-05:002010-10-16T21:56:21.355-05:00Did you read my post, DG?Did you read my post, DG?jurassicporkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71051688222689781132010-10-15T00:17:42.265-05:002010-10-15T00:17:42.265-05:00I hear you . . . and I sure hope I never provoke t...I hear you . . . and I sure hope I never provoke the House's ire here.Melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55366513116913001232010-10-14T23:36:32.055-05:002010-10-14T23:36:32.055-05:00Mel,
Gilly's blog was like a fine, divey inte...Mel,<br /><br />Gilly's blog was like a fine, divey internet bar with the loudest, funniest and (usually) well-informed clientele around because the proprietor ran it that way. Trolls came and went (Hello Bloomie!) and fights broke out all the time, but short of threatening grievous bodily harm or the violent overthrow of whatever (or mass threadjacking), assholes generally never got bounced or deleted, and Steve's roadhouse rules of etiquette were applied to friend and foe. Sometimes Steve would come in to kick someone's balls into orbit but he was a single-shingle operation (Jen helped, but he carried the place virtually solo) was usually working on the Next Post, but we Gilliardians formed a critical mass that was large enough and tuned into the sensibility of the place enough that we usually were more than able to take care of matters below-decks. There was no "Party Line" and no cult of personality: if you could go toe-to-toe, back your shit up with facts and passion, argue like a grownup and not otherwise be an utter dick, you were welcome. It was a real, distinct but ineffable quality which Steve worked very hard to cultivate, which I have never found in the same proportions elsewhere and which I miss very much. <br /><br />And as much as a nod to him as anything else, I generally try to let assholes hang themselves (they almost always do) and try to zap comments only when they rise to the level of a physical threat.<br /><br />Of course, like Mr. Gilliard and every other good bartender I have known, I reserve the right to be completely idiosyncratic, unfair and an absolute tyrant when it suits me :-)driftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-13762728542039992022010-10-14T22:40:25.499-05:002010-10-14T22:40:25.499-05:00I hadn't heard of Mr. Gilliard, RIP, until rea...I hadn't heard of Mr. Gilliard, RIP, until reading about him here at Driftglass' place - the Hari Seldon comparison is spot on.<br />Magnus the Shithead's genes and/or basement dwelling excuse nothing. I wouldn't mind seeing his excrement removed, but then I'm kind of a softy that way.Melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88945173897935664162010-10-14T10:42:11.578-05:002010-10-14T10:42:11.578-05:00To the ignorant, racist confederate flag waving th...To the ignorant, racist confederate flag waving three-toothers who've weighed in, Gilly was the guy who kicked Drifty out of his site and told him to set up his own shingle.<br /><br />Isn't it funny, DG, that every time one of us lauds a black man there's always a Tea Bagging douchebag with a David Duke poster on his basement wall who will chime in with a racist epithet. It's inevitable, I suppose, a product of their Juke genes.<br /><br />Btw, <a href="http://giveusthisdayourdailydread.blogspot.com/2010/10/wheres-harry-seldon-when-you-need-him.html" rel="nofollow">here's my two cents' worth</a> on Gilly and this post.jurassicporkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18355623311789494072010-10-13T18:56:19.784-05:002010-10-13T18:56:19.784-05:00Just wait- someday, oh, around the year 2500 or so...Just wait- someday, oh, around the year 2500 or so, the Iraqis are going to elect a democratic government, at which point someone at the Washington Post is going to write an article about how the surge worked.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5976972723704215302010-10-12T23:26:04.609-05:002010-10-12T23:26:04.609-05:00Gilly would've called you a fag also. Fag.Gilly would've called you a fag also. Fag.Gilly from Beyondnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7036547142886513472010-10-12T14:04:48.684-05:002010-10-12T14:04:48.684-05:00I can think of no more fitting commentary tribute ...I can think of no more fitting commentary tribute to Gilly than a bunch of nice, insightful thoughts...followed by one, unhinged, racist imbecile shouting out from his mommy's basement :-)driftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53799643730422855372010-10-12T09:09:28.369-05:002010-10-12T09:09:28.369-05:00HA! And just like that, the critic is expelled fr...HA! And just like that, the critic is expelled from the realm.<br /><br />Fuck you fags. Can't take the truth.<br /><br />Enjoy your nigger.Magnus the Destroyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-76090241501424481812010-10-12T08:55:18.774-05:002010-10-12T08:55:18.774-05:00And so you assholes are trying to paint this as so...And so you assholes are trying to paint this as some big liberal victory?<br /><br />Steve didn't predict anything that anyone who didn't have their head up their ass was saying was going to happen.<br /><br />This is a self-masturbatory strawman of vulgar proportions. The "Teabaggers" weren't even around when this fiasco started, so I'm not sure how they fit in here.<br /><br />Fucking liberals and conservatives are all equally retarded. Go fuck yourselves collectively. Fuck you and your "left/right paradigm". You're a disease of equal pain and suffering on America. Go commit suicide with your ideologically opposed twin and leave the rest of us out of it.Magnus the Destroyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90620422237436324112010-10-12T03:04:35.827-05:002010-10-12T03:04:35.827-05:00Here's to Steve! Still right on the important ...Here's to Steve! Still right on the important issues of tosay. What a razor sharp intellect, what a loss. Miss you, man!Grayhttp://caffeinesoldier.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3867458969559882952010-10-12T00:33:25.580-05:002010-10-12T00:33:25.580-05:00miss steve.
very glad you carried on drifty.miss steve.<br />very glad you carried on drifty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29702908416898984812010-10-12T00:23:16.534-05:002010-10-12T00:23:16.534-05:00it's still a shock.
thank you Drifty.
thank ...it's still a shock. <br />thank you Drifty.<br /><br />thank you James.<br /><br />miss you Steve.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(there ought to be a book. I'm so sorry that doesn't seem to have happened...)tokyoterrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14407594204384557056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-51188979350966117512010-10-11T12:29:46.895-05:002010-10-11T12:29:46.895-05:00I wish I had a nickle for every time I read someth...I wish I had a nickle for every time I read something stoopid* and wondered what Gilly would have to say about that. What a great talent.<br /><br />and fuck the fucking Yankees!Plummetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64544373981175617472010-10-10T17:34:28.323-05:002010-10-10T17:34:28.323-05:00Gilly was the only person who made sense of the wh...Gilly was the only person who made sense of the whole clusterfuck, and it seemed so logical when he wrote it that you wondered how anyone could apprehend it differently. I still wish I could ask him questions.Tatahttp://blog.poorimpulsecontrol.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-51334538366815613112010-10-10T10:29:36.925-05:002010-10-10T10:29:36.925-05:00Aw, come on. You know that HISTORY will be the jud...Aw, come on. You know that HISTORY will be the judge of whether we succeeded in Iraq. Eleventy-billion years from now is the soonest anyone can tell whether it worked and until then we can only proceed as if it were a brilliant success so SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP and by the way the stimulus was a failure because it didn't reduce unemployment to 0.4% instantly and yes I can say those two things at once why are you trying to silence me?<br /><br />Rick MassimoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63660583562155349152010-10-10T03:29:04.078-05:002010-10-10T03:29:04.078-05:00Most excellent post. I never read Steve in real ti...Most excellent post. I never read Steve in real time, but have posted on the same Sadr thesis for years. To the same collective deaf ears, I might add.anna missedhttp://annamissed.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21773816068212068372010-10-10T01:31:12.580-05:002010-10-10T01:31:12.580-05:00Damn. Here you go reminding me how much I miss Ste...Damn. Here you go reminding me how much I miss Steve's insightful and razor-sharp prose.<br /><br />Thanks for the flashback, drifty. Something to put away lovingly, and bring out whenever a Villager utters their self-absolutory catch-all excuse: "Who Could Have Predicted?"prof fatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-45067339251400550172010-10-09T13:47:12.035-05:002010-10-09T13:47:12.035-05:00That was a glass of fine wine.Thanks!That was a glass of fine wine.Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-92217253876288528012010-10-09T11:31:07.074-05:002010-10-09T11:31:07.074-05:00Damn Drfity, coming aboard this morning to find th...Damn Drfity, coming aboard this morning to find the visage of Steve looking me straight in the eye from the Spirit World, followed by his prognostications of EPIC FAIL oracled so long ago, makes this anniversary of John Lennon's birth ("all we are saying, is give peace a chance") even more spine tingling.<br /><br />Bravo. And thank you.US Bluesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57427284621899176592010-10-09T10:00:01.048-05:002010-10-09T10:00:01.048-05:00Those articles are reminiscent of I.F. Stone's...Those articles are reminiscent of I.F. Stone's early columns on Vietnam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67063923097330588142010-10-09T09:23:29.995-05:002010-10-09T09:23:29.995-05:00In the few arguments I find myself trapped in to t...In the few arguments I find myself trapped in to these days about Iraq, my opponent, after being enlightened about the true nature of the "surge" ...i.e. "paying our enemies not to kill us", will immediately assume the fall back talking point of "so you think the world would be better off if Sadam were still alive"?<br />I used to hedge on this, but anymore, I loudly proclaim: You are damn straight!<br />A large, secular middle class, where women could walk freely without having to dress like bee keepers. The non-deaths of 100,000+ citizens, 2 million refugees living in their own country. Not to mention the fact that by this time, Sadam would most likely have been overthrown and executed by his own military, rendering the whole argument depressingly stupid from the beginning. <br />....and the whole mind numbingly inept execution of the entire thing, the amazing waste of life and treasure, none of this lives in the memories of the baggers at all!<br />Remember when Shrub couldn't even explain the difference between the Sunni or Shia...3 years in to the fucking war! Is there a bagger or for that matter prominent conservative who could accurately describe the internal demographic of Iraq to this very day?<br />I very much doubt it.<br />God what a monumental, self inflicted tragedy of sheer ignorance. One that should have doomed the right in this country to the dust bin of history....and yet they live on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com