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Alabama Improper » Blog Archive » Blogging for Bolton — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:35:20 +0000

[...] Well looky here, people are already talking! [...]

By: madame l.

madame l. — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:39:21 +0000

By: J. Alva Scruggs

J. Alva Scruggs — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:23:37 +0000

I wanted to help with the draft, but Frank thought my additions were too politically correct. Told me to come back when I developed a little moxie. It’s true *sigh* I have a soft spot for bullies, cretins and loutish demagogues. They’re so cuddly.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:17:29 +0000

Well yes, Mortman, it is possible to pack more ad hominem attacks in a single sentence. You should have seen the draft!

In the end I decided to adhere to the stylistic constraints of simplicity and accuracy, and thus shortened to that simple sentence what had been a lofty attempt to inform others while expressing myself; because, you see, I am aware of the neocon aversion to compound and compound-complex sentence structures and all of their confusing commas and semicolons.

I hope you found it easy to read. I know Billy Frist and his butt-boy Glenn Reynolds did.

By: Extreme Mortman » John Bolton Provokes The Angriest Blog Post Of The Day - Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:44:57 +0000

[...] Gee, is it possible to cram any more ad hominem attacks into this listics.com post’s opening sentence? Senator Billy Frist and his butt-boy Glenn Reynolds have launched a campaign to make permanent Bushâ€™s gutless recess appointment of the embarrassingly hostile and aggressive neocon non-entity John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations. [...]

By: J. Alva Scruggs

J. Alva Scruggs — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:14:48 +0000

There are a few people who would be worse for the job. Lyndon Larouche, for example. But what’s needed is someone who thinks working to reduce animosity is a good idea. Failing that, someone who doesn’t get a kick out of farting in the elevator.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:52:52 +0000

Excellent observation.

By: J. Alva Scruggs

J. Alva Scruggs — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:40:33 +0000

I find Bolton fascinating. He’s something of a poor man’s PoMo philosopher.

The point that I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started, is there is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that’s the United States, when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along.

By virtue of its non-existence, his unconfirmed appointment made him the perfect ambassador. The logic is impeccable.