Dark Matters

George Who? Is there something happening in Washington DC today? I'm doing my best to keep a (major) media blackout around the thing. Call me Cleopatra, but I doubt there will be any other stories on the 6 o'clock news.

(Funny, I caught your briefly blacked-out page last night on my blog-rounds. I had no idea it was only up that long.)

I live only ten blocks from the Capitol, just far enough out that my street isn't blocked off. Last night's fireworks rattled my windows, they were so loud and frequent I thought/fantasized(?) that some big battle was happening down at the dome. Then I realized It had started. We had a heavy snow yesterday in D.C., I spoke to my mom around lunch and joked that it was true, hell has indeed frozen over.
I thought I should attend this morning's parade if only for the historical value but decided that it would serve only as recognizing his regime. So, I decided to do what I do everyday, sit in my little office on the back of the house, overlooking Constitution Ave. and study for the bar exam so I can become a productive citizen of D.C., taxed (heavily) without representation.

Not sue why you'd "go dark",

Republican or democrat, left or right, the inaguration is a ritual and celebration of freedom and democracy.

You can't always have it your way.

Inauguration is a masturbatory exercise for either party.

The Republicans just seem to like watching snuff films and are more exhibitionist when they do it. :)

Are you negative about everything?

I was kind of waiting for that tactic to come from the Republicans. Congrats on being the first!

Attack, attack, attack, you go, and then when we're overwhelmed with attempting to defend ourselves against the lies and the negativity, the attack-attack-attack begins again with "are you negative about everything?"

I'm quite positive about most things, and when I speak with positivity, there you are—people of your ilk, anyway—calling us crazy liberals, hippies, tree-huggers and moonbats.

What's your concept of a world of positivity for everyone, Gordon? Because you sure as hell seem like the negative one.

Actually, GoB, it seems kind of funny you calling us negative all of a sudden. Brian nullified your evidence (strawmen) in that last minor comment war we had on this site (BTW, nice layout!), and you only critisized his spelling!

There you go again, as if repeating a thing makes it more true. You don't even understand the concept of a 'straw man' in the first place.

And there you go again not actually answering an argument, and instead insulting intelligence and implying that your opponents don't know what they're doing.

You have to admit it looks pretty bad when a bunch of kids can wind up looking classier that you, even with all your great vocabulary words and literary references. You talk very well, but you don't have anything to say.

And...yes. You are definitely negative about just about everything. And I'm not saying, as a conservative, that you liberals are negative people. You, Jeff, are an angry, negative person.

Observation, not stereotype.

And you, Masked Avenger, are simply an irresponsible, nameless joke who takes things out of context (out of the context of an entire blog!) and posts baseless condemnations.

Put up your identity, or shut up on here.

You don't get to post crazy from your safe cocoon of anonymity.

You're just plain be an unhappy person.

Thanks for addressing my question, Gordon.

Here's some of the basics, then.

I'm reverted Catholic college kid. I'm from Seattle. I listen to The Beatles constantly, and I'm working towards a degree in journalism or some other form of English. I don't use my real name because I don't need to. I don't put up my email because I run into you here and on BlogHogger so much I don't think it's necessary. I don't put up my URL because the website I run has a lot of little kids who drop by, and I'd rather not they run across some of our more heated discussions. And I'm sorry for getting on your case.

Easier to apologize than to be decent to begin with, I suppose.

Email me privately, then, but I'm really sick and tired of the hit and run crap on here. I never post comments anywhere—including the rightfully-maligned dogsnot—without stating who I am.

I follow up and check on those who post incendiary things. It's called "being responsible".

i'm not interested in broadasting your email...just a way of verifying.