tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3207975149067379634..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: He's Told Us Not To Blow It...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35264316554612806152016-01-16T13:20:12.849-06:002016-01-16T13:20:12.849-06:00Small correction: Ron Fournier's shitty column...Small correction: Ron Fournier's shitty columns run in the National Journal, not NR.Joshua Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08739027104281984042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71268265969190456152016-01-15T05:51:43.034-06:002016-01-15T05:51:43.034-06:00Thanks for the mention of Rufus Wilmot Griswold .....Thanks for the mention of Rufus Wilmot Griswold ... a truly despicable character, rarely resurrected in today's discussion of life, art, and politics... A sad study in jealousy, and professional envy. Or was he? http://www.amazon.com/Imp-Notebooks-Wilmot-Griswold-Matter-ebook/dp/B018RM43OGDouglas Wesselmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182616776492357163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-8388268545504391582016-01-14T14:39:02.181-06:002016-01-14T14:39:02.181-06:00For me, I recognize the name Rufus Griswold. He di...For me, I recognize the name Rufus Griswold. He did not, in fact, fall into utter obscurity.<br /><br />Griswold is best remembered for destroying Edgar Allan Poe's literary reputation after Poe's death, writing slanderous stories about him and making Poe's works unprintable for decades.<br /><br />Griswold's own works, meanwhile, HAVE fallen into utter obscurity. After that, Edgar Allan Poe's reputation survived the slander thanks to a French readership that promoted Poe's literary skill - in a nation where Griswold held no influence - to such levels that it restored Poe's readership in the United States by the 20th Century.<br /><br />It shows how short-sighted the haters can be: true genius, true accomplishments survive the fires and slights of your enemies.Paul Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69130621909791824772016-01-14T14:04:43.983-06:002016-01-14T14:04:43.983-06:00"Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...
Paul Street be..."Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...<br />Paul Street begs to differ."<br /><br />From the link:<br /><br /><i>My strong and educated sense of the 44th U.S. president is that he knows very well that he is functioning as a tool of global capitalism’s endless war on democracy and the common good and that he enjoys it. He particularly enjoys hare-brained liberals and progressives who are still to this day bamboozled into thinking that he is anything more than a slithering neoliberal snake, a shiny tool of the unelected and interrelated dictatorships of money and empire. </i><br /><br />Yes, that's clearly a "strong and educated sense" he's using in that article.[/snark]<br /><br />Yes, we get it, there are better dreamworld presidents out there that will usher in a time of purity and ponies for everyone, when we'll finally throw off the yoke of our crony capitalist overlords and take the country back.<br /><br />Until then, a helluva lot of people that aren't bloviating, privileged white assholes (I say, as a privileged white asshole) that are way, <i>way</i> fucking better off than they were a few short years ago.<br /><br />But hey, color this hare-brained progressive bamboozled, I guess. Heighten the contradictions! Vote Trump! After all, how could it get any worse?<br /><br />Whatevs.OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79977610403726100122016-01-14T13:42:12.528-06:002016-01-14T13:42:12.528-06:00Hard hitting statements for sure. The Republican P...Hard hitting statements for sure. The Republican Party has become the oxbow lake on the river of American history. It's hulk will continue to pollute the sections and regions where it festers, but the rest of us are moving on. The Krakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384401125404650604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85261900818169790692016-01-14T12:25:52.446-06:002016-01-14T12:25:52.446-06:00What Redhand said.What Redhand said.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65839628506300636612016-01-14T11:19:53.308-06:002016-01-14T11:19:53.308-06:00One of Obama's greatest assets remains that to...One of Obama's greatest assets remains that too many of his critics criticize him <a href="http://s26.postimg.org/ozaqfun89/Grumpy_Old_Man_Thanks_Obama.jpg" rel="nofollow">for the wrong reasons.</a> ^_^Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30618606168850442632016-01-14T08:54:16.158-06:002016-01-14T08:54:16.158-06:00This post and your last one are among your very be...This post and your last one are among your very best Driftglass. My hope would be that future generations have a record of a blog like yours so that they can see that Americans living in our time didn't just roll over and play dead in response to the madness of the GOP and the billionaire oligarchy trying to destroy any semblance of democracy in our Republic.<br /><br />There is a lot about Obama's presidency that leaves me with a sense of disappointment, particularly when it comes to not prosecuting the war criminals in the prior administration. However, when we consider (as you point out) the utter wreckage of our society created by the Bush administration, in terms of vulnerability to terrorist attack, erosion of civil rights, an illegal and criminal war, the creation of torture as a legitimate tool of government, the obscene rise of crony capitalism working hand-in-hand with the debasement of government regulatory bodies run by political stooges, and last but not least the utter cratering of our economy by an out-of-control Wall Street, there is no doubt that Obama faced one of the most daunting reconstruction tasks ever presented to a president.<br /><br />I wish he had been able to do more, but it is a miracle that he was able to accomplish what he did given the from day one obstruction of the Republicans.<br /><br />The second great failure of our society is a "private one," i.e. the corporatization and neutering of our so-called "free and independent press." Suffice it to say it is doubly depressing that only bloggers like yourself and other "lunatics" on the left-wing are pointing out the obvious: that in addition to having a grossly dysfunctional government we also have a courtier press that plays along for profit.<br /><br />Sometimes I think that the chaos in American society caused by the Vietnam War was better than what we have now (aside from the number of dead). At least then there was some belief that the hippies and responsible members of government could bring about real change. Who could imagine in this day and age a president being forced to resign like Nixon was? Need I say more?<br /><br />Keep up the great work Driftglass. Your posts keep me sane.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71913650060248147262016-01-14T07:37:12.936-06:002016-01-14T07:37:12.936-06:00Paul Street begs to differ.Paul Street <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/14/hate-of-the-union-the-tpp-is-an-offense-to-the-people/" rel="nofollow">begs to differ.</a>Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6415562591501539872016-01-14T07:34:18.667-06:002016-01-14T07:34:18.667-06:00Not a party at all, any more, but a tribe of mooch...<i>Not a party at all, any more, but a tribe of moochers and con men.</i><br /><br />And why not? It's a business model which has been perfected by the TV evangelists who prey on the same rubes.I fought the lawn. And the lawn won.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10323114191766818390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35171338258681054672016-01-14T03:09:57.882-06:002016-01-14T03:09:57.882-06:00Sometime when we both have more time. I would be ...Sometime when we both have more time. I would be interested in hearing what you really and fully think of the President, The hate writers of the right, How the republicans not became fascists but openly fascist. <br /><br />I my perspective President Obama will be evaluated in time as others. There will not be a river of money propping up a rewritten legacy as has been done with Saint Ronnie.<br /><br />Saying this to a conservative will get you retorts of, You are a communist. Wake up!, Must get your news from liberal media. What about Obama crashing the economy in 2009? But Obama was victorious in his jade Helm 15 take over of Texas. how Those bad asses in Dallas fort Worth fell to Obama;s Gay Berets and the Alamo falling to Obama's Black Panthers. But all those white Texas gun toters now being mistreated in Obama FEMA Camps. <br />Why won't Trump tell it like it is and how he (Donald) will have them release with an executive order on day one?? Why won't the media tell you?<br /><br />Seriously,<br /> Obama has done more than Even I give him credit for. No, Dodd/Frank did not go far enough. It was done and it was extremely important. The A.C.A. ( which my youngest son got insurance through) is not perfect but what was health insurance like before it? Am I better off today than I was in 2007? <br /> Absolutely!<br />If the President had human legislators, What real change we would be looking at?<br />Take it from the top;<br /> President responds to press<br />“When I first came into office, the head of the Senate Republicans said, ‘my number one priority is making sure president Obama’s a one-term president.’ Now, after the election, either he will have succeeded in that goal or he will have failed at that goal.”<br /><br />Much more than ideology and partisanship.....<br /><br /><br /> Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29486807429374357392016-01-13T19:32:43.798-06:002016-01-13T19:32:43.798-06:00Excellent post, as usual. In the spirit of a mino...Excellent post, as usual. In the spirit of a minor footnote, let me share this ~ <br /> Word Origin and History for twat n.1650s, of unknown origin. A general term of abuse since 1920s.<br /><br /> The T-word occupies a special niche in literary history, however, thanks to a horrible mistake by Robert Browning, who included it in 'Pippa Passes' (1841) without knowing its true meaning. 'The owls and bats,/Cowls and twats,/Monks and nuns,/In a cloister's moods.' Poor Robert! He had been misled into thinking the word meant 'hat' by its appearance in 'Vanity of Vanities,' a poem of 1660, containing the treacherous lines: 'They'd talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat,/They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat.' (There is a lesson here about not using words unless one is very sure of their meaning.) [Hugh Rawson, "Wicked Words," 1989] <br /><br />< I found this at Dictionary.com><br />Mr XDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00548899367320056337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87382905194734173982016-01-13T17:21:19.496-06:002016-01-13T17:21:19.496-06:00@Sandman What you said.@Sandman What you said.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32192054438661803092016-01-13T16:55:53.616-06:002016-01-13T16:55:53.616-06:00"President Obama will go down in history as o...<i>"President Obama will go down in history as one of our great presidents"</i><br /><br />I'll bite. Why?Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31187791957567550242016-01-13T16:50:38.071-06:002016-01-13T16:50:38.071-06:00Bear in mind, though, the depressingly large numbe...Bear in mind, though, the depressingly large number of people who believe Griswold's story about Poe having drunk himself to death in the gutter. Hell(TM), I'd still believe it myself if I hadn't stumbled across the truth during a wiki walk a couple of whiles ago.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17690401398327930952016-01-13T16:34:10.188-06:002016-01-13T16:34:10.188-06:00Rufus who? Ron who?
Rufus who? Ron who?<br /><br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-54626666409235278842016-01-13T16:10:36.441-06:002016-01-13T16:10:36.441-06:00Remember when Haley was one of the good ones? A pr...Remember when Haley was one of the good ones? A prime VP candidate that could only help deliver 2016? Instead she's another media anointed "GOP Savior" that actual GOP voters wants put up against the wall with the rest of the RINOS. <br /><br />I swear the GOP has eaten more of its own since 2008 than of their hated opposition. Just how is this billionaire backed Ron et al. disconnect between conservatives in media and actual conservatives sustainable? Is the plan just to blow up congress and as many states as they can get their hands on until another Reagan emerges? trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10830124404306531933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67166149063851207212016-01-13T15:50:32.014-06:002016-01-13T15:50:32.014-06:00Positively brilliant. Maybe your best ever, and th...Positively brilliant. Maybe your best ever, and that's saying quite a lot.Sandmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00234681315035379874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41760123446593184372016-01-13T15:44:48.963-06:002016-01-13T15:44:48.963-06:00I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, to discover ...I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, to discover that Ron "Severe Dementia" Fournier clicked the GENERATE button on his "Obama Can't Lead" column macro and tossed out another willfully obtuse bit of boilerplate about how Obama is such a poopyface because he failed to convince a retrograde political party full of knuckledragging dolts and nihilists, who proudly, PUBLICLY declared that their only goal was to make him a failure, to work with him on anything other than his own letter of resignation.<br /><br />What a fucking clown. A sad, small clown, possibly suffering from undiagnosed head trauma.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23499343747255073402016-01-13T15:44:21.250-06:002016-01-13T15:44:21.250-06:00Bravo!Bravo!mcfrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07273740742656269901noreply@blogger.com