ewww

Speaking as an individual who has recently suffered an open sore (after having named it "Michael Moore" in its pre-sore, large-lump phase), I find this highly offensive and demand Althouse's head on a platter.

Well, if she wants to be childish:

Ann Outhouse is a bile bitch.

There, I said it.

Well, I recognize Little Green Footballs and OSM, but who the hell is Althouse?

This is simply open-mindedness.

Speaking about Christianity on the other hand...

ANOTHER UPDATE: If I were an insider to OSM, would I mock them like this? Isn't much of the value of bloggers that we are on the outside? Rolling up together in a group to make money -- is that worth the sacrifice of independence? Everyone who signed on is now stuck with the presentation on that website that we were not able to see when we were asked to sign on to 18-month commitments.

hey,
ass hole,
if i dont want to read it or post there,
am i still independent?

Sounds like what I hear on Air America. (Can no longer sample it as I feel all dirty afterwards)

Let's see staff of 10 including CEO/CTO and OSM Blogs included at launch today numbering about 80 or 90 on a quick scan. Thats 100 X divided by 3.5 Mil VC which is a grand total of: 35K for 18months.

Boy are they selling out big time here with OSM. Come on Charles and Roger will be down in Miamee living large by January everyone knows that.

/end sarc

Sometimes it's not "just" about the money. It's nice but not everything.

#8 rayra

They did, but hell, it's funny AND worth repeating!

Because, as the saying goes....some jokes write themselves.

Hey OUTHOUSE - jealous much?

Whining,name calling, moaning and complaining.
Sounds like a moonbat to me.
awwwww.too bad,so sad.

Charles, I'll say classy! I wonder what she was wearing when she wrote that? Definitely not pajamas.

Oh, Open SORES instead of SOURCE. I get it.
We have Mark Steyn on our side - they can have Outhouse. Get it, OUTHOUSE, ALTHOUSE? It's a pun? Get it?

#9 WNBD --

And you can bet that Charles and Co. will be more successful with that 3.5 mil and attract more visitors, bloggers, "correspodents" etc. than Hot Air America did, even with that extra infusion of $800,000 that Hot Air "appropriated" from the Boys and Girls Club.

Boy I hope she gets PUNished for that poor play on words. Get it? PUN-ished? It's a pun!

An attorney talking about "crispness"? (my apologies to LGF attornies)

The good news is that all she found to complain about is style....nice start for OSM I'd say.

14 Carolina Girl

Ah your Kung Fu pretty good. And also a very good point.

Something tells me this will be a rough thread but an extremely funny one:-)

Pundits whose names are easy puns should not stow thrones.

Its nice to know that our political/social opponants keep things on an up-and-up level, intellectually speaking.

When they have to stoop to insults, it's probably all they have left for their attacks.

Fox (in the taxonomic sense), meet grapes.

Grapes, fox (see above).

How about:

Ann Outhouse is a bile stool of the left.

/sorry

And it's not even original.

Thrones ...get it?

Charles,

You messed up the headline.

Shouldn't it be:

The Epitome of Bad Taste

Her final comment shows that she posted without having the first clue as to what she's talking about. OSM will have ZERO influence on the content and tone of the individual blogs that comprise it. If she had taken the time to acquire a clue, she'd know that no one is sacrificing their independence. To the contrary, the member blogs and bloggers of OSM are attempting to wrest independence for news media in general from the few traditional power brokers who have controlled worldwide media for decades.

Yeah, Blog fight! This is what blogging is all about, 2 blogs in a snark match. If OSM can deliver more of this, I'm all in!

#26 Dar ul Harb, yes but where should she stow 'em?

And how would she know about such a delicate topic, huh?

She a vile bag of pus, so I guess experience counts for something.

Just some background:

The Open Source software movement has been a thorn in Microsoft's side from it's inception. Linux, among other OSs and programs are open source, and Gates can't compete with them. So he (and the company) maligns them with cute phrases like "Open Sores", and bald face lies (like Open Source = Napster).

It wasn't particularly original to borrow this phrase from Microsoft and apply it here. Not particularly clever, either.

Next to her take on OSM, this Blog-Ad comes up:

Does the verbal hostility of the modern political culture make you want to scream? Find sanity at ipolitick.com! Help start the civil, productive dialogue at the ipolitick forums and talk about all things politics without all of the partisan bickering!

Is that ironic?

#2 LS

Did you say Michael Moore? 'Cause I'm expecting him any moment.....

The lady is entitled to her opinion. It was free and I took it for what is was worth.

Ann Outhouse appears a little obsessed with bodily fluids.

What's the deal with that? Never heard of her before anyway.

Does this dumb slut realize the left is well represented at OSM?

I guess not. Typical ill-informed invective from a Berkeley house whore.

Why is she so angry?

I understand why Duncan Black and James Wolcott are, but what set her off?

#34 michaelmoorescoffin

Whoa! Whoa! Down, boy - don't get giddy with anticipation!

(Watch this comment show up at DU as "Redneck Southern b***h yearns for Michael Moore's death")

Just a few open, uh, closed minded libs.

So this is what Outhouse really sounds like.

Charles,

Have you contacted Bruce Kovner as a backer?

scooter

No wonder she's so vile:

Forsooth! For I am teh ugly! Feed me beef!

She's uglier than a dirty boot.

Outhouse writes:

Rolling up together in a group to make money -- is that worth the sacrifice of independence?

I figured it wouldn't take long for the anti-capitalist claptrap to come gushing out of the LLL.

#36 aboo-Hoo-Hoo, she ain't gonna like allah's paradise very much

Bukhari:V4B55N544 “Allah's Apostle said, ‘The first group who will enter Paradise will be glittering like the moon and those who will follow will glitter like the most brilliant star. They will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be gold and their sweat will smell like musk. Their companions will be houris [virgins]. All of them will look alike and will be sixty cubits (90 feet) tall.’”

Unless she likes musky sweat

Ed and Roger were nursing Gibsons, while Tim (who at 5’1" is much shorter than I thought he’d be) was drinking what looked to be IPA out of a pilsner glass inscribed with the legend, "Bloggers Do It In Their Pajamas."

Charles, you should market those glasses on the home page.

# 4 Captain Midnight

Well, I recognize Little Green Footballs and OSM, but who the hell is Althouse?

Good question.

#44, I don't think she's a moonbat (see this post as an example), she's just jealous that she's not in the club.

#43 equable

Now I'm worried. Because I look a lot like that.

(Carolina considers tan and a perm. Perhaps botox.)

I guess in the yin yang sense of balance you need to have Open source Media and Openly Seething Moonbats.

#49 Carolina Girl

And you too are an attorney... Eerie!

What bug got up Althouse's butt?

#42
Ooops, some background on Kovner:

George Soros’s Right-Wing Twin
Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center’s crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion—and the most powerful New Yorker you’ve never heard of.

If no one knows anything about Bruce Kovner, it is because he likes it that way. Yet the unassuming manner is camouflage for one of the most powerful people in the country, culturally, financially, and politically. Kovner, 60 years old and divorced, manages the largest hedge fund in the world and every year ratchets higher on the Forbes list of the richest Americans (most recently, 106). Wealth has granted him influence in the fields that he finds most interesting: high culture and public policy.
...........
Most important, Kovner is chairman of the American Enterprise Institute

[Link: newyorkmetro.com...]

Hey, he's an entrepreneur and reputedly one hell-of-a-nice guy.

Just a thought.

It's a snarky post alright, but I do have to agree with her criticism of the clumsy writing in that first paragraph.

Popularity breeds resentment.
 

Whodathunk OSM causes PMS....

#51 christheprofessor

No, I'm afraid the blonde hair and need for botox are where the similarity ends - not a member of the Bar, alas. (Although it keeps me from being hit up for legal advice by drunken people in the other kind of bars that usually have no case).

I'm a legal assistant who has been doing this soooo long that they "treat me like their own!"

Swapping semen for pus, bodily fluids-wise.

She looks like she'd be an expert on that particular subject..

Speaking of Althouse:

Charles, maybe you should clean up your anti-idiotarian blogroll a bit. More than a few sites on there are either completely inactive (some for years) or just plain non-existant.

#56 christheprofessor
Preventable Moonbat Syndrome (cure is to pull head out of ass and open eyes to facts)

Did she mention me?

signed,

George "Open" Soros

#57 Carolina Girl

Hmmmm... I thought you were... Since you aren't an attorney, you must use something other than your personality for birth control...

/sorry, old lawyer joke -- no offense LGF attorneys....

#60 rayra

The thing of it is, Althouse is no moonbat. That's why I'm rather surprised by her snit.

#38 SoCalJustice

I'm with you. I read her original reasoning(?) for not participating in OSM nee PJ Media but why the current vitriol? If it doesn't work for her, fine, whatever. But until OSM is rolling, she really has nothing more to add does she?

#61 metal man

Unfortunately, I believe that "P" stands for "Perpetual"....

More Cheesehead humor from the sage of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, a city that jumped the shark years ago.

Actually, the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark.

#66 christheprofessor
Only because the don't have the strength to give a real tug on their ears to dislodge the problem:0

She has blog envy.

Why the vitriol?

For the exposure, perhaps. Maybe she knows she's a rival and is proving that bloggers NOT in OSM can still get exposure.

Maybe she's pissed at Glenn? The town of OSM not being big enough, etc.?

#62 reggiefu

I have never thought of that pun. Now I will permanently refer to that rat bastard as "George Open Soros."

#57 christheprofessor

Since I'm not an attorney, my preferred birth control method? As Jehka will tell you, in person? I'm an incredible smart ass.

The thing of it is, Althouse is no moonbat.

No, just a soi-disant intellectual who thinks she's smarter than everybody else.

Is this getting coverage on any of the cable media - Fox? CNN? You know, like Hot Air America got?

#72 Carolina Girl

See, that wouldn't work for me... I like smart-ass women! The quicker and dryer the wit, the better!

Okay, disgustingly gross envious bloggers aside...

After the press conference I ran out and bought a pair of stiletto-heel pumps and a $30 lipstick (Yeah, right. That'll happen. In my next life maybe.) Nu? Did I miss the party? I was looking forward to a Cosmopolitan!

#69 rayra

"Moonbat or No, 'Poor Form!"

I agree. Very immature too.

#74 David Simon

just a soi-disant intellectual who thinks she's smarter than everybody else

That's odd - I thought all those snots were teaching at Cal - how the hell did she slip through the cracks?

#49, Carolina Girlie:

I was just being superficial and meeting style with style.

In all honesty, she could look like (insert hottie name here) and I'd find her to be repugnant.

If you resemble her in the physical sense, then I'll apologize if you took my vitriol personally.

#71 godfrey

"Maybe she's pissed at Glenn?"

Could be. Aren't they professional buds?

#74 David Simon

"No, just a soi-disant intellectual who thinks she's smarter than everybody else."

I've never seen any snooty elitism from her until now. Very weird.

#80 equable --

Never, never took any offsense a'tall sugar -- if I took personal offense (and no worries, I practice enough sarcasm to know it when I see it) I would have taken it off thread and emailed you personally.

I would hate to break up with this woman...

Can you say slashed tires..

Hot Tuna! Charles - Scrappleface reports that the MSM is on to you!

"Faced with the “chaos and confusion among the commoners” which could result from today’s launch of Open Source Media, a portal to the best of the blogosphere, a coalition of mainstream media (MSM) outlets plans to launch “aggressive countermeasures.”

The professional journalism syndicate announced the impending launch of ‘Secret Source Media’, a website which it said would provide one-stop shopping for reliable, anonymously-sourced news.

“The ordinary folks who read The Times and watch CNN don’t want a non-stop barrage of news from these fact-checking geeks,” said a spokesman for Secret Source Media who requested anonymity for the sheer thrill of it. “People need the comfort that comes from the mystery of faith in unnamed sources and reverence for elite editorial gatekeepers.”

In addition to offering at least one anonymous source in every story, Secret Source Media’s website “will enhance the sense of mystery by being written entirely in Latin.”

Bloggers Charles Johnson and Roger Simon officially launched the “citizen journalist” Open Source Media blog by nailing a pair of pajamas to the front door of The New York Times."

This girl reads too much Ted Rall...

#84 Bubble Girl

Hey Bubbles! Gotta tell ya. I never took Althouse for a "boiling bunny" type of personality. I'm having a head-scratcher over this one.

Something has happened to some blogger relationships over OSM.

I'll watch Instapundit for his take on this.

#86 Bubble Girl

I picture Ted Rall....and a shovel....and I come up with endless possibilities. A night of fun for the entire family.

#84 Bubble Girl:

Somehow, I doubt breaking up with her is anything you'll ever have to worry about.

85 Carolina Girl

Greetings Citizen Journalist Geek Girl!

/geeky secret handshake

Goodie, the leftists are upset, poor babies! Perhaps it's something they swallowed! Of course, the truth hurts and man have they ever usually escaped from knowing that!

 #87

rightymouse  11/16/2005 03:25PM PST

#84 Bubble Girl
Hey Bubbles! Gotta tell ya. I never took Althouse for a "boiling bunny" type of personality. I'm having a head-scratcher over this one.

Too bad we don't have a "The Days of Our Blog Lives" to read...

#84 Bubble Girl

But if you DID break up with her, I bet the subsequent behavior on her part would make for a very wacky and memorable "Judge Judy" episode.

#91 olderthandirt

Althouse isn't a lefty.

#83, Carolina Girlie:

Well to be fair, here's my mug. Feel free to comment any which way you'd like! Everyone else is free to participate.

Me earlier, enjoying breakfast.

Me in Vegas with some friends, looking like complete idiots. I am the moron in the hat.

guys, read this--
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Althouse is so clueless Allah had to tell her Goldstein's "liveblogging" was a mock.
braindead.

#88

Carolina Girl  11/16/2005 03:25PM PST

#86 Bubble Girl

I picture Ted Rall....and a shovel....and I come up with endless possibilities. A night of fun for the entire family.

Ha! It's one thing to mad, it's another to be viciously vile. Split personality? LOL

#92 Bubble Girl

Well, as Charles says, she jumped the shark.

89 Gus3

You are right, Gus... I would never date a chick... much less Althouse... but I did have a psychiatrist stalk me...

Never once heard of this lady in years of reading.

Who cares?

#95 equable

I see you're engaging in Breakfast of Champions!

I sadly must admit to being a METS fan, however (I'm also a Saints fan, which should tell you everything you need to know about my backing of sports franchises).

 #93

Carolina Girl  11/16/2005 03:27PM PST

#84 Bubble Girl

But if you DID break up with her, I bet the subsequent behavior on her part would make for a very wacky and memorable "Judge Judy" episode.

LOL~ especially since I would have to wear a brown paper sack over my head... for two reasons... anonymity and because I was embarrassed that we had a relationship...

#98 rightymouse

Well, as Charles says, she jumped the shark.

And more's the pity she didn't trip over its teeth on the way....

(new entry at DU -- "Redneck Southern b***h wishes [Outhouse] be horribly mutilated by shark.")

Equable

Is this Show and Tell Time....

#85 Carolina Girl
Along with the launch the MSM has decided to include in this Sundays paper will Tin foil hats and a set of special spectacles to read the news. All stories from now on will be printed in a color that only the glasses will allow the reader to read. When you can't beat them hide them from those they seek to reach.

rightymouse

And the moral of Althouse

Never blog when drunk or stupid!

Remind me to never piss off any of our LGF ladies! LOL!

Tough crowd. :)

Bubblygirl:

Probably not, but I have never been one to follow rules or stand on ersatz formalities.

Rightymouse

Well, I for one, am not pissed. Mine are merely observations... lol

#106 Bubble Girl

Have a hunch we'll be hearing more about her spleen spew from more than just Charles. IIRC, she has guest-blogged for Glenn at Instapundit.

 #108

equable  11/16/2005 03:35PM PST

Bubblygirl:

Probably not, but I have never been one to follow rules or stand on ersatz formalities.

Touche... mon ami!

#110 Bubble Girl

LOL! I'm not pissed either. Bemused. Yes.

You're right, Charles, that was spiteful and uncalled for. She could have wished yours and Roger's venture good luck, instead of being rude and classless on OSM big launch day.

I've bookmarked the OSM site and am looking forward to seeing how it progresses and grows. Now that I cancelled my cable, I need something to replace Fox News. :)

Keep up the good work!

Rightymouse

Infighting, back stabbing gossip.. makes the world go round!

It just seems her level of vitriol is quite... shall we say... stunningly bad taste..

Perhaps this woman needs to work on her Acid Wit skills instead of stooping to Middle School Boy's Room Wall Wit...

I am not one to really follow many blogs, as most prove to be little more than self-indulgent litter boxes, complete with countless sycophants and those who are censored when they dare to disagree. I do follow the free flowing kinds however, and this must explain why I have never heard of that wench.

She probably saw an opening on Charles' coattails and hopped on, hoping to make a presence/e-career based on disagreeing with everything old Chuck and company say.

Wow, how original.

#82 rightymouse -

I've never seen any snooty elitism from her until now. Very weird.

She strikes me as one of those jaded, been-there-done-that types who thinks she's being au courant by being perverse.

Then again, I'm not really all that familiar with her.

Then again, I don't really care to be.

Hey rightymouse!

Welcome to the 1000er club.

 #118

David Simon  11/16/2005 03:41PM PST

#82 rightymouse -
I've never seen any snooty elitism from her until now. Very weird.

She strikes me as one of those jaded, been-there-done-that types who thinks she's being au courant by being perverse.

When we were 12 we called it trying to be cool by being gross.

Charles and Roger invited Ms. Althouse to be a part of (the former) Pajamas Media. She declined because it wasn't worth her while. Fair enough. That said, however, she seems intent on talking down the venture for whatever reason, in spite of the fact that her main hits benefactor is a part of the new OSM.

It's as much a mystery to me as it is to any other outside looking in. I understand the criticism, but not the vitriol.

This reminds me of South Park... where Cartman raises the Sea People in his aquarium... and Miss $##$%$$ is found dead with "seamen" in her stomach.

What led to the use of the term "Open Source"?

"Open Source" is a movement derived largely from Marxist principles. It is at heart an attack on the notion of intellectual property rights. The more extreme adherents of this "faith" are extremely hard-core leftists such as Eric Raymond.

I just find it odd that LGF would align itself with a philosophy which many percieve as profoundly anti-American (since so much of what makes America great is premised on the right to have and hold property).

#115 Bubble Girl

"It just seems her level of vitriol is quite... shall we say... stunningly bad taste"

I know! That's why I'm bemused! Man, I must have missed something about potential bad blood going on with her.

That said, what I find interesting is that Charles doesn't seem to be surprised by her reaction. SOMETHING has been going on behind the scenes.

107 rightymouse

Remind me to never piss off any of our LGF ladies!

Especially the Thai ones.....

/And don't even think of pissing off the Mexican ones.....

85 Carolina Girl

Almost very true. Check out Atlas's post today about the opening and the comments from the elitist lady from the NYT.

#109 Boss429

perhaps she's dyslexic and intended to say that she wants her puss swamped with semen?

I needed to skip a meal anyway.....

123 Pro-Bush Canuck

Wrong. There's nothing marxist about open-source software. It's voluntarily contributed to the public domain. Nothing is coerced. And it can be incorporated into commercial products. If you think the idea is free distribution, you've missed the concept. Open source means that the source code is included. The motto is: "free as in free speech, not free beer".

#126 WNBD

Oh, most definitely -- my girl Atlas and I are soul mates!

Earth2moonbat

Of course you know that we are also classy when angered. And cute flinging the dishes around the room.

#130 Bubble Girl

Of course you know that we are also classy when angered. And cute flinging the dishes around the room.

I'll take your word for it. I don't want to be there when the dishes are flying.

/What, no lamps?

OT

You want outrageous? Here you go, file this one under we support our troops.

NBC Nightly News just referred to WP as a "controversial chemical weapon" that causes injuries "more devastating than napalm".

Although you could argue that the injury part is true, still . . .

/[expletive deleted] you Peter Jennings!

131 Earth2moonbat

No, no lamps... but cursing so hot it will sting like a willow switch...

#119 Geepers

"Welcome to the 1000er club"

Thanks! Am in good company!

#119 Geepers

Hey rightymouse!

Welcome to the 1000er club.

And she didn't cheat!

Righty, aren't you on a dial-up modem?

#126 WNBD

Just checked it out. She never ceases to amaze me - first off, she is as witty in person as she is when she writes.

Second, you could really learn to hate someone that always looks as completely fabulous as she does. I can't take a good picture and she can't take a bad one!

#121 Juliette

"It's as much a mystery to me as it is to any other outside looking in. I understand the criticism, but not the vitriol."

I'm with you on this one. Am totally baffled as one from the outside looking in. Glenn has been doggedly supportive of her that I've seen.

And she does this? Ugh.

#135 Earth2moonbat

Righty, aren't you on a dial-up modem?

If true, our next project is giving righty DSL. I had to go back to dialup a couple days while my DSL was down and thought I'd need heavy medication before I was through.

Grrrrrr. A lot of mis-information about Open Source software and its proponents here.

Open Source software is not automatically in the public domain. All authors retain their copyright. They merely waive the right to restrict what users do with their software, up to and including modifying it. Under the General Public License (GPL, such as the Linux OS), users may use the software with the understanding that they may not impose any such restrictions, either. The BSD license (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) does allow such "lock-down".

And Eric Raymond would be highly offended to hear you call him a "leftist." In a culture rife with socialism and other Marxist ways, ESR goes against the grain with his "Geeks With Guns" gathering every summer near Silicon Valley. If anything, he is a libertarian.

(Can you tell Open Source software is a topic near and dear to me?)

#132 Killian Bundy
I think this all starts with their journalism class where they watched the later (Alan Alda) episodes of MASH. IIRC there was an episode on the nastiness of White Phosphorous.

#125 Earth2moonbat

LOL! Doesn't matter. LGF ladies are a force to be reckoned with.

#135 Earth2moonbat
#138 Carolina Girl

No dial-up now. Have internet cable and a brand spankin' new, smokin' 'puter.

Sounds like Ms. Althouse is just plain ole' vanilla jealous.

If she was supportive of the effort, she wouldn't trash it.

If she didn't care, she wouldn't comment with nice littel tidbits like she did.

So obviously her little feelings are hurt.

I'll call a waaaaaaaaahhhhhmbulance.

#142 rightymouse

I've had 1 mbit cable internet all along, but I just replaced my firewall computer with a dedicated router. I can't believe the difference it makes! That sorry computer must've had problems. Now it's snap, snap, snap! Geepers, beware!

rightymouse

Remind me to never piss off any of our LGF ladies!

Hee. Because for sure our Confederate Contingent puts the "Steel" in Magnolias!

#144 Earth2moonbat

Even with cable (Adelphia subsidiary for our boonie township) internet, my old PC was vintage 1998 with Windows '98 and it would freeze, bomb out, whatever.

Spent over $1,000 to replace it. Have XP and some serious fire-wall stuff. In addition to performance, I adore my 19" flat panel monitor.

#146 rightymouse

Mine's a 17" flat panel and oh man - just to have DESK space again!

#145 Carolina Girl

Oh, believe me, I would never go up against our Steel Magnolias. Ever. Nope. Not me.

#147 Carolina Girl

I love the desk space too. Whew! Those old monitors suck up too much footprint. I can actually have my new printer and scanner on the desk without stacking them.

Correction to my #132:

#428 Jheka

Mr. Jennings passed away some time ago.

Oops, my bad, I knew that, confused my moonbatici, anyway . . .

[Expletive deleted] you Brian Williams!

/and the LLL network you rode in on

 #148

rightymouse  11/16/2005 04:18PM PST

#145 Carolina Girl

Oh, believe me, I would never go up against our Steel Magnolias. Ever. Nope. Not me.

LOL~~

#139:

Moreover even if we (incorrectly) assume that there is a strong connection between open source and Marxism, things are not that bad because Marxism encompasses a very wide spectrum of political movements that includes western social-democratic parties. Let's assume that the political agenda of the open source movement is a kind of Marxism applied to software. This is not true; Metcalfe is definitely wrong equating Marxism and the open source philosophies. However there are definitely some overtones to the open source political agenda that are analogous to Marxist views. So let's for a moment assume that Bob Metcalfe is right. What does this mean? First of all, there is a big difference between the theory of communism (called Marxism) and the practice of communism...

-- Nikolai Berzoukov

149 rightymouse

I love the desk space too.

That's what I don't like about my 20" CRT monitor.

#151 Bubble Girl

LOL!

#153 Earth2moonbat

You have a 20" CRT? Egads. Flat monitors are relatively inexpensive now. I believe I paid about $290 for my 19" Acer monitor.

#139:

Part of my previous post got cut off. In any case Berzoukov like many apologists for Open Source at once denies that there is a direct link to Marxism, but then equivocates and says basically that even if there were that's not such a bad thing.

Open Source sites and projects widely use the term "CopyLeft" instead of "Copyright". That's because Open Source (i.e., the communal creation and collective ownership of intellectual property) is in fact a deeply leftist philosophy.

That is not to say all OSS people are leftists! There may be some short-term benefits to OSS (as there were to socialism itself--France was wonderful for 30 years or so in many ways). However it is not possible to seriously assert that OSS is anything but an alternative to the traditional free-market, property-based, capitalist enterprise upon which American prosperity is based.

I maintain my befuddlement over why Pyjamas will now apparently be called "Open Source".

Earth2moonbat

Hey... time to join get a flat panel... don't be an old foggy...

#155 rightymouse

I believe I paid about $290 for my 19" Acer monitor.

The more expensive of my two 17" flat screens was $219. Remember that flat screens while nominally the same size have a larger viewable area.

She's just jealous of Atlas! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

#158 reaganite

I needed to clarify that my 19" Acer monitor was a flat screen. I love it.

#160 rightymouse

I needed to clarify that my 19" Acer monitor was a flat screen. I love it.

I knew what you meant! I have to have flat screens, my desk has two computers. One is for surfing, the other for games. Plus I have the printer and scanner. No way could I fit two CRT monitors!

OT
But with all this talk of screens. With Windows 200 and XP if you need more screen space for menus there is an option inthere to do it. the mouse pointer runs from screen to screen it is very cool for programs with lots of menu windows. (you do need 2 outputs for monitors on the computer)

#161 reaganite

My problem is that my office is in my library. Since I tend to read multiple books at once, books are on the desk too.

Can't imagine two CRT monitors here either! Ugh. It was great just getting rid of the Dell CRT.

#163 rightymouse

It was great just getting rid of the Dell CRT.

My last CRT blew up about 7 years ago while I was deployed overseas. I got home and it was dead, so I bought my first flat screen of the same "size". I could have saved myself some money and got a flat screen 2" smaller (I didn't know that the viewable area was actually larger). I've found the 17" screens to be the best for size and space.

Once you get used to having two monitors at work, it's inevitable that you will want it at home, too.

I've got a 19" LaCie CRT and a 17" Samsung analog LCD on a dual-head AGP card in my Mac G4 at home.

..........what a day, with the OSM launch, early posting from Charles.........

Good Lord I'm happy to see in spite of all that went on today that Charles has kept things moving here.

Ann Althouse is a two seater; with no paper.

/give me a hand here, will ya.

Does anyone have one of those monitors that looks like an oversized 8.5 x 11 paper and oriented portrait, not landscape? I think they're used in publishing.

#156 Pro-Bush Canuck:

To maintain that the benefits of OSS are "short-term" means you haven't watched the Massachusetts debate about OpenDoc.

The benefits of using proprietary software (think Microsoft Word) are much more short-lived: Microsoft can revoke, at their discretion, the license to use their software. Massachusetts found this risk to be untenable, and opted for programs and file formats which are not restricted by a company desperate to maintain a cash flow.

On the other hand, Open Source software under the GPL is licensed in perpetuity from the copyright holder's perspective. Only the user can terminate his/her right to use GPL software.

The "Marxist" analogy falls apart when you consider that not everybody is required to participate, or even allowed to do so. The Samba project goes to great length to screen their candidate contributors, to make sure they aren't liable to Microsoft for any code. Similarly, Charles et al. have chosen their contributors to OSM carefully, in order to produce a quality product. See any Kos Kidz on the OSM contributor list? Do you expect any "corrections" from Arianna to appear on OSM?

You may wish to check your sources for equating Open Source anything with "Marxism" and being anti-capitalist. It's been my experience (yes, that's weasel words) that such accusations can be traced back to Microsoft.

#166 Dar ul Harb

I've got a 19" LaCie CRT and a 17" Samsung analog LCD on a dual-head AGP card in my Mac G4 at home.

Why two screens for one box?

She definitely doesn't like OSM or Lizards either:

STILL MORE: I'm told Jeff Goldstein wasn't even at the OSM launch, which surprises me, because I began reading it on the OSM home page under their heading "live-blogging." That's an awfully strange way to introduce people to their service. Aren't ordinary people being asked to trust the OSM portal?

Also, Charles Johnson linked to this post to note my bad taste -- the "fluids" wisecrack -- and this set off his commenters who just started wildly insulting me -- hilariously assuming I'm a big lefty and using lots of bad taste insults against me. How does that make sense? If they are outraged at my bad taste, as Charles suggests they be, then why aren't the comments primly proper? They must be insulting me because they assume I'm a lefty. Ha, ha. Somebody tell Armando! Anyway, Charles's fans end up hurting him on the day when he is trying to make an impression as an elder statesman of blogging, by making his site look all trashy. And the irony is priceless: he is complaining about my bad taste. Yet "semen" and "pus" are both perfectly sound English words, not slang at all, and pointing out literary images is quite high tone.

/let's see, Althouse occasionally guest blogs for Instapundit and Instapundit is on the OSM editorial board, hmmm . . .

Charles's fans end up hurting him on the day when he is trying to make an impression as an elder statesman of blogging

Charles? He's the picture of hale youth, as is OSM.

The last thing I can imagine is him trying to impress somebody by appearing "dignified".

Ann, I got news for ya:

"Playing nice" got truth-seekers and truth-tellers nothing but dismissal (at best) or wire-fed insults from those who controlled the flow of news.

Those days are over. We call them as we see them. Don't demand "manners" of us, when you obviously don't give a shit for manners yourself.

#164 reaganite

I want to get a flat panel monitor for my Dad who has glaucoma in both eyes (inserted valves for vision) and needs large type.

Should I get him the 17" vs 19" flat panel monitor? He needs large type.

Oh gosh.... I need to pay more attention

Yet "semen" and "pus" are both perfectly sound English words, not slang at all, and pointing out literary images is quite high tone.

LOL~~ this is such a piss poor defense... it's laughable...

Let's see, she is a "law" professor at U-Wisconsin. Which means that she is somehow able to find a penumbra in the Geneva Convention to give terrorists the same rights as war criminals, but yet can't seem to read the 2nd Amendment. Bet she can't wait until she gets to interpret the sharia when the poor widdle oppressed Moos-lims get to run things.

On the other hand, as my chauvinist friends would say - "Who cares what she thinks? She's UG-LY!"

Althouse is finding out it's a long climb back out of the literary gutter....

#175 rightymouse

Should I get him the 17" vs 19" flat panel monitor? He needs large type.

It depends on what he has for a computer OS. With Windows XP you have the most choises for screen sizes. In most cases a 17" is plenty with setting the screen to 800 by 600 or 1024 by 768 resolution and set to 96 dpi. Which will make the fonts plenty large.

Dear Ann Althouse:

I was not one who put you down here at LGF. You can read all of my comments to know this for a fact.

That said, I was bemused by your reaction to OSM and the words you chose to use to portray your lack of support for their effort.

I read Glenn (Instapundit) every day so I'm not unfamiliar with you and his support of you and your blog.

My advice as an outsider looking in, is don't burn your bridges. Because that's what you seem to be doing right now.

Sincerely,
rightymouse

#169 godfrey
Since there will never be an opening like this again, the SEM I use has 2 21" and a 17" monitor that the mouse will pass through controling all 3 it is so cool.

That's a law professor, folks. I pray her teaching in class is better than the analysis on her blog.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers.

Dear Althouse,

I was one of the ones who called you on your little hissy fit. No matter how you now try to spin it, you wrote it, babe... it is there in black and white.

Tough luck.

BG

#179 Bubble Girl

Hey BG, you're Catholic . . .

/isn't [blog] envy a sin?

#63 ctp

/sorry, old lawyer joke -- no offense LGF attorneys....

My favorite is "what's a thousand dead lawyers on the bottom of the ocean?" A start.

I've been to law school and passed the bar. A thousand is too conservative.

Damn, I think I'll just step aside and let the LFG women handle this. I doubt I could do it as well as they.

#186 Beagle:

No such thing as "too conservative." I think you mean "aiming too low."

#180 reaganite

Ok - I'll ask Dad what he has for OS. I have XP at work and that seemed fine so I got XP for home. Damn home XP license cost more than the flat panel monitor. Sheesh!

#179 Bubble Girl

Althouse is really, really PISSED and LOSING it! What is extraordinary to me is watching an erstwhile intelligent woman in total and complete meltdown.

Note to Ann: Michelle Malkin and LaShawn Barber would never do what you are doing right now.

#188 gus3

No such thing as "too conservative."

You can't possibly be serious. Personally, I still skin my own prey with sharp rocks, but I can't force that on all you new-fangled grocery store folk.

#189 rightymouse

Damn home XP license cost more than the flat panel monitor. Sheesh!

Bill Gates is the anti-Christ!

Really, no matter the OS, there are ways to make the fonts larger. A 17" monitor is plenty.

185 Killian

Blog envy a sin? Depends on the level of envy. A slight envy, no sin. I think it was kind of interesting how she tried to weasel her way out of it later on. Reminded me of Clinton. Funny how semen relates to both.

AA writes:

If they are outraged at my bad taste, as Charles suggests they be, then why aren't the comments primly proper?

I suppose this could be technically considered a "primly proper" english sentence, although, to me, it seems to lean more toward Ebonics.

/but, then again, I'm just a lowly lawyer, not a high and mighty law professor

#179 Bubble Girl

Althouse is really, really PISSED and LOSING it! What is extraordinary to me is watching an erstwhile intelligent woman in total and complete meltdown.

Was there sex involved? I mean... this seems to be so... unusual.

 #193

Killian Bundy  11/16/2005 05:46PM PST

AA writes:

If they are outraged at my bad taste, as Charles suggests they be, then why aren't the comments primly proper?

I suppose this could be technically considered a "primly proper" english sentence, although, to me, it seems to lean more toward Ebonics.

/but, then again, I'm just a lowly lawyer, not a high and mighty law professor

Ha ha ha.... bet you are getting a kick out of this, Killian. Primly proper... hee hee..

189 rightymouse

Damn home XP license cost more than the flat panel monitor.

Well, if you used open source software like I do (Linux), you wouldn't pay anything for your OS. Of course, the downside to that is that it's hard to demand your money back if it doesn't work.

190 Beagle

Still skinning with rocks? And look at you, you can type too.

#191 reaganite

I'll show Dad my monitor when he comes here for Thanksgiving next week and then we'll go shopping. If need be, I'll buy him a new 'puter too. Or get him an XP license so he can adjust his fonts better.

#197 Bubble Girl

I spent years carving this computer out of wood.

I must go play my role as hunter / gatherer (drive-thru at Wendy's). Later.

#196 Earth2moonbat

"Of course, the downside to that is that it's hard to demand your money back if it doesn't work."

Well, that's a nit. :)~

#198 rightymouse

Or get him an XP license so he can adjust his fonts better.

Well, it's a long story, it also depends on the video card.

Really though, adjusting the screen view is pretty easy on all but the oldest Windows OS's.

All this is why I build my own puters, I get what I want.

Whoa, Momma!

Primly proper.

Dear Miss Althouse,

Semen, pus, and body fluids are my forte as I am a physician, so it was quite the surprise to read you using them in the context of describing the contents of the pajamas of the OSM group.

You cannot cry fowl over the harsh rhetoric that followed upon the heels of the wording that you, yourself chose to write. Perhaps your Mother is at fault for not teaching you the difference between "acid wit" and boy's room humor in Middle School.

I suggest a visit to the local Catholic Church confessional as a start.

Regards,
Bubble Girl

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it is called..

Apple

#203 Bubble Girl

I suggest a visit to the local Catholic Church confessional as a start.

Noooooooooo! Anything but that!

#194 Bubble Girl

"Was there sex involved? I mean... this seems to be so... unusual."

How the heck would I know? Regardless, she is really, really mad. And not in a professional way.

Bubble Girl

Quite so.

I often had long and heart-felt conversations with my confessor about the difference be "acidulous" and "ass sedulous."

I'm gonna need a little something to confess!
Any takers?

Ann sounds bitter.

#203 Bubble Girl:

Sorry, that wasn't prim enough. It could still be twisted around in, uh, unseemly ways.

 #208

Johnny Bravo  11/16/2005 06:02PM PST

I'm gonna need a little something to confess!
Any takers?

Of course I am primly proper so I would be of no help to you in your quest to find something to confess.

#201 reaganite

I had Windows '98 on my old POS computer that had a Dell CRT and it was hell adjusting the fonts.

Ugh.

Anyway, will have Dad look at my set-up and if he can see text decently on the flat panel, then I'll duplicate everything for him.

The funny part is that there's another company already called "Open Source Media", so Charles can rename it LFG World Domination now :-)

 #210

gus3  11/16/2005 06:05PM PST

#203 Bubble Girl:

Sorry, that wasn't prim enough. It could still be twisted around in, uh, unseemly ways.

Well, hmmm, let's get a prim person on here to write her a note. Who is prim enough?

209 FrogMarch

"Ann sounds bitter"

Do ya think so? LOL!

Am very disappointed in her right now.

Ann Althouse said...

Thanks, Jason. Well, I'm getting a lot of traffic from that link, so, what the hell? They seem to be slowly figuring out who I am. It's funny that my slightly gross joke upset them, but then the used all the words they could think of to call me names. It's funny that Charles is supposed to be lending gravitas to the OSM project when his site seems like such a cesspool, at least in the comments. And it's really dumb to think that anyone who criticizes OSM must be a lefty. I think there's an awful lot of desperation about the project.

I'll spare you what the commenters on her thread have to say about the commenters on this thread.

Let's just say they also don't like Lizards and, of course, LGFers are culturally and mentally inferior to all those who grace the Althouse blog with their comments.

/some of you minions, especially early in the thread, even get special mention, go read them all!

 #213

Ian S.  11/16/2005 06:07PM PST

The funny part is that there's another company already called "Open Source Media", so Charles can rename it LFG World Domination now :-)

Yeah! Like wrestling... LGFWD Smackdown!

#212 rightymouse

Anyway, will have Dad look at my set-up and if he can see text decently on the flat panel, then I'll duplicate everything for him.

If you have too many problems, let me know, I'll help.

Ask Ann, I helped her with her puter.

Bubble Girl
UUmmmm...You gotta sister?

Killian

What is with this chick? "Cesspool, semen, body fluids?"

Come on, Freud would have a field day.

 #219

Johnny Bravo  11/16/2005 06:10PM PST

Bubble Girl
UUmmmm...You gotta sister?

Nope... no sister... but get too close to me and you will get scorched.

Killian

We haven't even discussed the commenters on Althouse's blog. Shall we take off the velvet gloves?

#203 Bubble Girl

cry fowl

Did you mean foul?

/that'll be ten PIMFs loung lady!

Bubble Girl
That's OK!
Just don't mess up my hair!

#216 Killian Bundy

Althouse is toast then.

Ann. Ya did it to yourself, darlin'.

The laugh must be on us who thought you were a serious thinker.

 #223

Killian Bundy  11/16/2005 06:15PM PST

#203 Bubble Girl

cry fowl

Did you mean foul?

/that'll be ten PIMFs loung lady!

LOL LOL ~

Did you mean "young?"

/10 for you, lowly lawyer!

#222 Bubble Girl

We haven't even discussed the commenters on Althouse's blog. Shall we take off the velvet gloves?

Well, they are copy/pasting comments from this thread and dragging them back to their thread for ridicule.

/what's good for the goose . . . Tallyho!

 #224

Johnny Bravo  11/16/2005 06:16PM PST

Bubble Girl
That's OK!
Just don't mess up my hair!

Oh yeah... what kind of sinning is that if you can't mess up your hair... talk about prim!

Killian

So none of them are registered over here and so cannot comment on this thread?

That is just so sad. Poor advance planning.

#218 reaganite

Thanks to you and Ann!

Folks will be arriving next Tuesday. I worry about Dad because of his eyesight. At his age (late 70's) he's still doing Biblical translation as a consultant so he really needs large fonts due to his glaucoma.

Killian

And they are having to copy/paste our comments....

Come on, Althousers... work it.. work, work, work for your Mistress of Bile..

PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF

See my thumb?

/gee I'm dumb!

None of them are saying anything about me.

/must not be snarky enough

gus3
Are there any pretty girls over there?

#230 rightymouse

Thanks to you and Ann!

Any time, seriously. Just let me know.

Killian

Ah, Killian... I should go and wash all this paint off of me... it's in my hair, it's on my face, arms, clothes... I will take a shower while they ridicule us over at Althousers...

And then forget they ever exist.

Life is good.

#235 reaganite

I'm off work next week, so will post when my parents come in on Tuesday and Dad sees my office set-up.

Thanks so much.

mousey

215 rightymouse

I am disappointed too. I rarely but do occasionally read her blog. I have a thing for Wisconsin. Anyway, Ann seems smart enough. A little full of herself and overly confident, but smart nonetheless.

I'm sort of confused, though. Is there another OSM?

#237 rightymouse

I'm off work next week, so will post when my parents come in on Tuesday and Dad sees my office set-up.

Feel free to email Ann or me, in case we're golfing!

Actually, Ann sounds bitter and jealous.

There.

I've read the Althouse post, her comments section, and all of this here at LGF, and I have to say, with all sobriety: pfffth.

Althouse's crack about bodily fluids was predicated on a straight reading of Goldstein, which everyone now knows to be a hoax. So the whole "you're stinky! no, you are!" kerfuffle is irrelevant.

Among other things, the question of trademark infringement is interesting, as is the connotation and legal status of "OSM" in an environment where the open source software model is well-established.

These things are important and could be discussed, however small their entertainment value. I'm not saying they should even be discussed here, since this is LGF, after all, not OSM.

Perhaps slashdotters will weigh in at some point.

/settling in

#236 Bubble Girl

I'm going to join youngest in watching "Saving Private Ryan" before his bed-time. He has a toy gun shooting all the bad guys.

Fireplace going, cold outside (Ohio temps are in the toilet tonight).

I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am in Althouse. But then, she has disappointed me too. I never thought she was capable of such trash.

Dear Ms. Althouse

Cry me a river.

Sincerely,
Carolina

Godfrey

Rats, Godrey... you are taking all the fun out of it...

#238 FrogMarch

"I'm sort of confused, though. Is there another OSM?"

No. She's mad at Charles and likely Glenn Reynolds too.

Gross... is gross...

/time for that hot shower...

Bubble Girl

That was a quick shower! Are you sure you got all the paint off?

#239 reaganite

Will do! Have to get ready for 20 family members for Thanksgiving next week.

Thanks again. Will post if I have a question for Dad.

Bordm

Sorry, going now... had to peel off the paint encrusted clothes first..

BG

Gross... is gross...

Hmm, this will get no argument from me.

Enjoy that shower. It will feel great after a hard day's work!

had to peel off the paint encrusted clothes first..

/that is just too easy a pitch, isn't it?

BTW folks - Ann is no lefty. She may be a tad bitter and jealous - but she's no lefty.

So be nice.
show some class.

*ducks*

#249 Bubble Girl

had to peel off the paint encrusted clothes first..

Please tell me it wasn’t the Victoria’s Secret stuff you were wearing! Enjoy your soak.

Ummmm, peel off clothes!
/Homer Simpson

Icepick said...

Swapping semen for pus, bodily fluids-wise.

Maybe they can put that in their banner ads!

Hey Icepick, over here, in the cesspool, we call them rotating titles. That said, I think he boy's on to something here. Charles, rotating title?

Elizabeth said...

I revise--a jumping the shark moment for rightwing blogs. It's a bit fun to see the spotlight turn to examining the warts on that side of the blogosphere for a change. I've seen so many claims of the high-minded and level-headed nature of the right, and just in time, here come the Little Green Footballers and Joobo and his ilk to remind us that kneejerk idiocy and thoughtless nastiness are unfortunate human traits, not content to devote themselves to one side of the political spectrum.

All hail Joobo the troll Nordog of Althouse!

/gee, rotating titles, sanctimonious posters, trolls, maybe there's some common ground here

Slightly OT, but someone mentioned George Soros.

Anyone trying to keep track of GS's expenditures pertaining to his attempts to elect political puppets more to his liking (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I know he dumped a bundle in Ohio to no avail.

I know he dumped a bundle in the national elections in '04 to no avail.

I know he was rich as (fill in the blank with your epitome of rich), but he's spend a lot of cash.

Wasn't he supposed to be shorting the dollar in favor of the euro? Wonder how that worked out for him?

Be a shame if he wasn't able to help HillBilly^{pat. pend} as much as she's going to expect for the '08 run.

Or maybe it wouldn't be such a shame.

245 Mousey

I vaguely remember Ann saying even though she was invited, she wasn't interested in joining the PJ media revolution. So why would she be mad if she is the one who was invited, but refused to join?

or am I missing something?

So it would seem that she rebuffed the invite and is now attempting to look down her nose at everyone at the party.
That seems lame to me.

That's better than the somewhat risque pun I thought people would say. Disgusting though.

BTW - I just love the term "jump the shark". Didn't Jonah G. Come up with that?

I left a comment at an Indymedia site yesterday and felt comfortable doing so. However, this one is not worth it - she's being so gradeshool - remember how kids back in grade school would act out when they were jealous? Ignoring them worked best.

razorbacker

I know a guy who says he went with Soros to the USSR just after it broke up to help the new states deal with all sorts of infrastructure issues. This was back when Soros was something of a good guy: he poured money into this effort. Then, according to this guy, all of a sudden Soros lost interest and left all those people high and dry. The guy speculated that Soros had some sort of grudge against the Bush family, because this was around the time he started pouring money into the American LLL.

I know that doesn't help with any of the specifics of your question, but it may help to illustrate that Soros is unstable. Tracking all of his schemes is difficult maybe for that reason.

#258 FrogMarch

According to a couple of Web sites on word origins, trivia, etc., the phrase has its origin in Web site [Link: www.jumptheshark.com,...] which started in 1997. From that site:

Q. Did "jump the shark" originate from this web site, or did you create the site to capitalize on the phrase?

A. It all started here. This site went up December 24, 1997 and gave birth to the phrase "jump the shark." As the site continues to grow in popularity, the term has become more commonplace. The site is the chicken, the egg, and now a Catch-22.

260 Godfrey

I have the impression that Soros made his first huge fortune shorting the pound around the time of Maggie T. in Britian.

I had heard that GS dropped out of the Russian effort when it looked like there wasn't going to be the pot of gold so many folks envisioned.

I have the impression that GS doesn't like right-leaning governments much, but does like leftys just fine.

I was just wondering, what is he up to?

#261 Cattt

Thanks!
Interesting.

razorbacker

Yes, I've heard the same about him and the pound, and that he was a shameless currency bouncer for years.

As for the Russia project, this guy I know says, for whatever reason, Soros left a lot of projects stalled -- projects that people needed badly.

I share your wonder and hope you find someone here with better information.

Where are you? I have some fine relatives in AR and enjoy the fishing.

Yet "semen" and "pus" are both perfectly sound English words, not slang at all, and pointing out literary images is quite high tone.

At least she defines the parameters of 'high tone.'

#212 rightymouse
You may already know this but on the off chance you don't
Control panel
Accessibility options
Configure windows to work...
Next
Then there are choices for display options one Magnifies the section the mouse pointer is over.

264 Godfrey

I'm in far NW Arkansas, in the country outside a small town called Elkins. Close to Fayetteville.

267 razorbacker

I've always meant to stop in Altus to get magnificently drunk, but duty always prodded me on.

Did you ever see Miss Hilton?

Rumor has it you can see Paris on the web, but I've never visited.

I've drank in Altus, though. Nice town. Wine country, believe it or not.

Pretty fair fishing on the Arkansas River close by, too.

Wine country, believe it or not.

That's why I mentioned it. There's a similar sort of place in the Feliciana Parishes north of where I live. The place that appears to do the most business is Feliciana Cellars, which is located on a ridge above a deep ravine full of lilac and honeysuckle. It's good for a weekend. Very quiet before and after deer season.

Paris on the web...
Been there.

270 Godfrey

This is probably the best known winery:

Weiderkehrwines

Though my personal favorite is Post Muscadine, simply because it reminds me of my dad's homemade wine.

There are four wine companies, with a new kid on the block called Aux Arc, I think. The landscape is pretty unique, with high bluffs and the river valley uniting to provide a micro climate different from the rest of the river valley.

German vinters settled first, with an abbey called Subiaco close by.

Green grass, horses, and bourbon whiskey. That'll suck the ambition right out of you.

How'd you fare, JD? Bet on any of those horses?

Mellow...

Steve H. said (regarding AA) ...

You are now officially my hero.

You may be a house whore, but you're definitely not a house negro.

Although being Caucasian, you were probably never in much danger.

But still.

Good thing you're posting over on the awesome (OSM) Althouse blog Steve. Try posting [expletive deleted] like that here in the cesspool and you'd be in a world of hurt.

Matt said...

This is just surreal. Hey, Althouse -- maybe next time you'll think it over harder when you're made a generous offer, heh?

This is sort of like when the New York Times prints disparaging remarks about and sics its fans on Tom Maguire because Maguire won't get in line. But the Times doesn't do that! Well, this is the New Media!

I'm a minor blogger aspiring to climb the ecosystem and heck, yeah! I'm getting all great vibes about Reynolds' and Johnson's outfit today. If I ever get big enough for them to send me a dull and incomprehensible business proposal I know what I have to do to avoid the spitballs from LGF's eighth graders.

A touching story Matt, vaguely reminiscent of Blind Man in the Bleachers. Anyway, I think you've learned your lesson here. If you want to someday grow up to be a big time blogger, if you want to run with the Lizards, you can't piss and moan like a whiny law professor.

/don't tug on Charles' cape, don't spit into his minions, don't raise the hackles of the LGF Lizards, and DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

271 JD

Been to Paris, TN.

Catfish festival.

And Paris, AR.

275 Killian

Steve H. said (regarding AA) ...

You are now officially my hero.
You may be a house whore, but you're definitely not a house negro.

Although being Caucasian, you were probably never in much danger.
But still.

They really know how to give compliments over there.... you may be the house whore but not the house negro...

Sweet! (shakes head) Doesn't take much to be a hero in Althouser World..

Wiederkehr! That's it. The last time I drove by was during winter, so it was closed. I don't remember seeing the river, but I did get out to look at the vines and wondered how many people they employed to cut back the canes.

From their website:

Wiederkehr Wine Cellars is U.S. Bonded Winery Number 8

That's odd. Herr Altus moved to AR in 1880. I think the first bonded wine company was in 1860.

Perhaps it's possible that only eight companies were bonded over the course of twenty years, assuming there existed a central, federal bonding authority.

Mellow...

You forgot the "Fine and..."

Welcome back, Bubble Girl.

godfrey
I think you tend to bet more horses the more bourbon you drink.
At least that's how it works for me!

But you can't bet horses in Paris. And actually, there are probably a lot more cattle than horses in Paris these days...

/saw "Paris, Texas"
/observed friends skinny-dipping in the Seine

Hi Godfrey...

Bubble baths are good for the body and the soul.