It’s true; I flounced, came unglued, went ’round the bend, head exploded, one flaming right wing flapping madly through the inferno, propelling me in helpless circles before the… oh screw it, you can go to LGF for their version. Here’s mine:
Two days ago, I was on a thread where somebody mentioned that the economy was doomed unless the democrats got the House back in 2012 or some such thing. By the way, if this level of detail is not sufficient for you, you may want to simply stop reading now. I am not going to reproduce what happened at LGF over here, as it can be found over there at LGF. At least I think so.
So I disagreed, and in another post brought up the Contract with America, and made what I thought were a couple of points. The only response I received was to be labelled a revisionist with a suggestion that I should go write for Fox News. Nobody addressed the points, and when I pointed *that* out, I was treated to a display of my own petty snark (it’s true, I enjoy some snark), as if that rebutted any point I had on the table.
And this is where I figured I was probably done with LGF. At some point, it had gone from a place where facts matter to one where smears outweigh facts. Gone were the rabid right-wingers like me who at least were famous for a “fact-check your ass” FCYA approach to things, where “link, please” outnumbered “lol” ten-to-one. In our empty chairs were the hive-mind body-snatchers that had taken over the place. In the struggle between LGF traditions and the ugly cloud of slovenly habits which follows the left around like stink on a garbage truck, the stink had won. At LGF, you can’t even disagree in a rational manner, as the
