The Little Green Footballs Front Page Gets a Major Makeover

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I’m pleased to announce that I finally completed the redesign of the Little Green Footballs front page! The old, bloggy design with complete posts scrolling down the page one after another was long overdue for a reboot; it had been essentially unchanged for more than 10 years.

The new design emphasizes graphics much more, and lets you see more articles easily. It also lets you easily check on which articles have active comment sections, with auto-updated comment counters that have popups showing an excerpt of the last posted comment. I’ve redesigned many of the graphic elements to bring them more in line with the new, more modern aesthetic.

And of course, it’s fully mobile-friendly and automatically adapts to small screen sizes.

Right now the redesign is only for the front page, but I’ll be working on the rest of the site as well to make it consistent with the new look.

Hope you like it! I’m excited — it’s always fun to take a design that’s grown kind of stale and make it fresh again.

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185 comments
1 PhillyPretzel  Jun 23, 2015 10:12:46am

Beautiful. It will take a little while to get accustomed to the new look.

2 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:12:47am

I was skeptical at first, but I like what I’m seeing.

3 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 10:13:26am

…

4 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:13:58am

Change is hard….

Yeah getting used to it.

5 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2015 10:14:18am

Looks awesome! Just needs a bit more cowbell though.

I’ll help……

6 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2015 10:15:11am

I like it. Looks great.

7 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:15:37am

This reminds me

My website looks SO 2005

8 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:17:10am

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

9 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 10:18:18am

I notice that I can’t rate each posting from the splash page anymore. Is that supposed to be, or is my old Mac and browser not completely displaying the page?

10 Timothy Watson  Jun 23, 2015 10:19:41am

re: #3 Kragar

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Who moved my cheese?

11 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 10:20:16am

I also notice that at the bottom of the page I can’t scroll to older posts (currently the oldest one is 12 days old).

12 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 23, 2015 10:20:35am

re: #10 Timothy Watson

Who moved my cheese?

It’s in the fridge behind the quart container of 2-week-old Greek yoghurt.

13 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:22:58am

re: #12 Feline Fearless Leader

It’s in the fridge behind the quart container of 2-week-old Greek yoghurt.

OK, I’ll go check.

…

14 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 10:23:38am
15 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:24:41am

re: #14 Kragar

Et tu, Randus? /

16 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:25:39am
“I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hatred so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,”

OK, that’s actually more forceful than I expected from him.

17 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:26:22am

re: #14 Kragar

Ayn Rand Paul is some kind of forward thinking leader, did you know he opposes the Drug War and NSA surveillance?

/

18 Great White Snark  Jun 23, 2015 10:26:31am

Pop star sez wut? Taylor Swift can dictate terms to music streamers, but if you happen to be her photog, look out. Break the rules and her people can break your gear

littlegreenfootballs.com

19 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:26:54am

re: #14 Kragar

Where do we put this guy, Rand?

20 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:27:24am

re: #19 The Vicious Babushka

Where do we put this guy, Rand?

Embedded Image

In the museum.

21 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 10:27:31am

re: #19 The Vicious Babushka

Where do we put this guy, Rand?

[Embedded content]

BACK IN THE CLOSET!

22 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:27:31am

re: #14 Kragar

How bold. This after watching and waiting and waiting and watching…

23 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:28:02am

re: #16 Nyet

I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery

Nice presidential campaign you had there, Rand.

/

24 Timothy Watson  Jun 23, 2015 10:29:42am

re: #14 Kragar

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You know, I am not sure the GOP is ready to vote for a guy who has a Jheri curl to be President.

25 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:29:49am

Of course Rand “leads from the back row”, as it were. Where had he been earlier?

26 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 10:30:23am

King of hate-talk sez:

“The Next Flag That Will Come Under The Assault … Is The American Flag”

27 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:30:57am

re: #26 freetoken

King of hate-talk sez:

He knows his audience.

28 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 10:31:13am

re: #25 Nyet

Of course Rand “leads from the back row”, as it were. Where had he been earlier?

On the other side.

29 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:31:34am

re: #26 freetoken

King of hate-talk sez:

Hurr hurr because flying the rebel flag was the only thing keeping the leftists dirty commie hands from burning the American flag.

30 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 10:31:57am

re: #27 Drive By Commenter

He knows his audience.

Yep. If he said anything true, they’d turn on him in an instant.

31 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:32:03am

re: #26 freetoken

King of hate-talk sez:

I thought it was a Demoncrat flag?

32 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:32:42am

re: #26 freetoken

King of hate-talk sez:

I think that flag was already assaulted, some years ago, that war, that thing….

/

33 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2015 10:33:11am

re: #26 freetoken

King of hate-talk sez:

Ah, Rush lets his freak flag fly, and by ‘freak flag’, I mean this:

The 21st Century’s Freak Flag
34 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:33:30am

re: #28 wrenchwench

On the other side.

“Timely betrayal is no betrayal at all, it’s foresight” (c)

35 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:33:32am

re: #31 Nyet

I thought it was a Demoncrat flag?

A lot of upset Republicans though. Strange world.

36 allegro  Jun 23, 2015 10:34:15am

I find it ironic that that murdering asshole Roof actually accomplished starting a revolution… in reverse of his goals. It appears that pretty soon anyone who displays the racist Dixie Swastika will be a pariah to the majority public. Finally.

37 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 10:34:21am

re: #9 freetoken

I notice that I can’t rate each posting from the splash page anymore. Is that supposed to be, or is my old Mac and browser not completely displaying the page?

Yes, the ratings aren’t displayed on the front page any more. I may add those back in eventually; I had trouble coming up with a look for it that fit in with the rest of the design.

And the auto-scrolling feature of the old design is another thing I may or may not add back in. That reminds me, though - I need to work on adding the daily archive feature.

38 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:34:32am

re: #35 Drive By Commenter

Lot of upset Republicans though. Strange world.

I guess they’re just gentlemanly folks who commiserate with the Dems under attack? /

39 OhNoZombies!  Jun 23, 2015 10:35:04am

So I guess the Southern Avenger is trying to redeem himself.
Read his article denouncing the flag and his old beliefs, and he was on CNN earlier.
Let’s just say he probably lost some of his good’ol boy buddies.

Gonna try and link from my mobile, but I kinda hate the process.

40 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:35:35am

re: #39 OhNoZombies!

What changed his mind?

41 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:36:07am

Something tells me that if one digs deep enough, one might find Rand quotes explicitly sympathetic to the Confederacy.

42 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:37:27am

re: #38 Nyet

I guess they’re just gentlemanly folks who commiserate with the Dems under attack? /

I think they spent so long believing the bullshit they were selling they now live it. It’s perfectly normal. Because. See. You know. Right?

43 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 10:38:50am

Someone might want to tell Limbaugh and his syncophants that the following burnt US flags was not done by “libruls”:

Image: 04467v.jpg

44 OhNoZombies!  Jun 23, 2015 10:39:29am

re: #40 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What changed his mind?

He said that he discovered empathy.
He then went on to denounce the RW of cheering for the assault of the girl in Texas at that pool party etc.

45 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:39:43am

NEWSFLASH: Dim Jim is still Stupidest Man On Teh Internets

46 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:39:59am

re: #44 OhNoZombies!

He said that he discovered empathy.
He then went on to denounce the RW of cheering for the assault of the girl in Texas at that pool party etc.

Wow. Sounds like he means it.

47 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 10:40:45am

re: #46 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Wow. Sounds like he means it.

You bet. Uh huh. Yep. Ab-so-lute-ly.

48 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:42:43am

re: #37 Charles Johnson

I know it’s a bit of work, but could there be an optional “extra lite” mobile version that gets rid of most features, leaving the most basic stuff (like quoting ability; it would also be best to use the “hard” text versions of tweets instead of the dynamic ones) and the ads, in addition to the current one? (It could have its own URL, like lite.littlegr…).

The current mobile version really drains the phone battery, and is slow when the number of comments reaches around 300-400. Plus when there are many tweets, one has to wait until they all load “dynamically”, the page jumps all the time, it’s problematic to press any buttons, etc. :(

49 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:42:49am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY Lunchtime Edition==>

50 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:43:18am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

NEWSFLASH: Dim Jim is still Stupidest Man On Teh Internets

Oh, that Dim Jim. Doing all he can to deliver 0% of the African American vote to the GOP.

51 Great White Snark  Jun 23, 2015 10:43:25am

From discussions in the office…. Why should the Confederate flag be held in any higher regard than the flag of Nazi Germany? Okay Goodwin and all but it would be foolish to argue that the impact of slavery on africans was any less impactful than pogroms or the holocaust. Or any less shameful.

Sure it was for labor not for extinction, but it still killed, still was breaking up families and horrifically cruel.

52 PhillyPretzel  Jun 23, 2015 10:43:38am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe he will really shock them by quoting from the Torah.

53 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:43:54am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

NEWSFLASH: Dim Jim is still Stupidest Man On Teh Internets

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Hoft still can’t decide whether Confederacy was liberal Democratic or White Christian.

54 b.d.  Jun 23, 2015 10:43:59am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

NEWSFLASH: Dim Jim is still Stupidest Man On Teh Internets

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Jefferson Davis was a confederate general?

I’ll be damned, learn something new everyday.

55 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 10:44:03am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY Lunchtime Edition==>

Hey were just asking the questions….

56 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 10:45:18am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY Lunchtime Edition==>

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She announces in her profile that she’s proud to be followed by a lot of terrible people.

57 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2015 10:45:28am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

He makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

58 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 10:46:31am

re: #51 Great White Snark

From discussions in the office…. Why should the Confederate flag be held in any higher regard than the flag of Nazi Germany? Okay Goodwin and all but it would be foolish to argue that the impact of slavery on africans was any less impactful than pogroms or the holocaust. Or any less shameful.

Sure it was for labor not for extinction, but it still killed, still was breaking up families and horrifically cruel.

I don’t consider that a Godwin, because they really are the same. SC flying this flag is like a backward German state flying the Nazi flag, which of course is not permitted.

59 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 10:47:05am
60 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:48:11am

Godwin’s law is descriptive, not prescriptive. It doesn’t say that it’s wrong to mention Nazis, only that they will be mentioned.

61 ObserverArt  Jun 23, 2015 10:48:34am

re: #14 Kragar

NYT Politics ✔@nytpolitics

Rand Paul says Confederate flag should be “put in a museum.” nyti.ms via @NYTnickc

12:28 PM - 23 Jun 2015

I notice a quote that was in an earlier linked Buzzfeed article that was posted in the last thread is not in this article. I wonder why it was left out and yet Buzzfeed put it in theirs. You be the judge. I have my opinion.

“… I think to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s times to put it in a museum.”

It was in this article: Buzzfeed News - “Inescapably A Symbol Of Human Bondage And Slavery”

I had asked in that thread if he is basically blaming African Americans for this complaining about the flag.

There are a lot more people that want that flag gone that are not African-Americans, but then if he said that, well it wouldn’t be all on the AA folks.

Rand Paul IS Rand Paul. A lying, plagerizing, pandering, blowing with the wind bullshit artist. He’d make a fine used junker car salesman though. Maybe.

62 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:48:52am

re: #53 Nyet

Hoft still can’t decide whether Confederacy was liberal Democratic or White Christian.

Ann Coulter was on Washington Journal/ CSPAN this morning, repeating once again the tired old wheeze that the freedom-loving Republicans were the ones fighting the slave-holding Democrats in the Civil War, as if the party switching in the civil rights era had never taken place.

63 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:48:53am
64 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 10:50:34am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY Lunchtime Edition==>

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SQUIRREL!!

65 ObserverArt  Jun 23, 2015 10:51:45am

re: #47 Drive By Commenter

You bet. Uh huh. Yep. Ab-so-lute-ly.

Doesn’t sound like you are in a buying it mood today. I completely understand and share your reluctance!

66 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:52:50am

re: #62 jaunte

Ann Coulter was on Washington Journal/ CSPAN this morning, repeating once again the tired old wheeze that the freedom-loving Republicans were the ones fighting the slave-holding Democrats in the Civil War, as if the party switching in the civil rights era had never taken place.

Here’s Coulter’s defense of the flag.

67 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 10:54:07am
68 PhillyPretzel  Jun 23, 2015 10:54:34am

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Good question.

69 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:54:35am

re: #62 jaunte

Ann Coulter was on Washington Journal/ CSPAN this morning, repeating once again the tired old wheeze that the freedom-loving Republicans were the ones fighting the slave-holding Democrats in the Civil War, as if the party switching in the civil rights era had never taken place.

They totally believe that, case in point: the steaming pile of Derp that I stepped in this morning.

70 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:54:43am

re: #66 Nyet

Such rank, ahistorical bullshit.

71 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:55:24am

“At an abstract level, of course, the war was about slavery…”
BUT

72 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:55:36am

re: #70 jaunte

Should be tweeted at those who push Coulter’s current lies.

73 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:55:52am

Abstract my ass.

74 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:56:03am

HURR HURR UR MLK QUOTE FROM LIBRUL STANFORD KING COLLECTION IS FANFIC BUT HEAR IS AN ARTICLE FROM HUMANEVENTS!!!!!!

75 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:56:41am

Conservatives were always at war with Eastasia.

76 Timothy Watson  Jun 23, 2015 10:56:43am

re: #59 Kragar

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Yes, college students really are that stupid. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he went to a business school, you wouldn’t believe some of the bullshit they teach in those (said as someone currently attending a business school for a certificate in accounting).

77 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 10:56:52am

re: #71 jaunte

“At an abstract level, of course, the war was about slavery…”
BUT

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t abstract to the slaves. //

78 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 10:57:27am

re: #66 Nyet

Here’s Coulter’s defense of the flag.

It’s true that most CSA soldiers did not own slaves. Wealthy planters who owned 20 or more slaves were exempt from serving in the army, because they had to stay at home to “protect the white women”

It was called the “20 N[clang!] Law”

79 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:57:54am

re: #77 CuriousLurker

Look, Platonic scarring.

80 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 10:59:13am

What Coulter wrote when Eastasia was still an ally amounts to “they were idiotic nationalists who would die for a monstrous regime because they held stone age views”.

81 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 10:59:25am

I can’t believe this ninny makes a living selling books.

82 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 10:59:38am
83 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 10:59:44am
84 Timothy Watson  Jun 23, 2015 11:00:19am

re: #78 The Vicious Babushka

It’s true that most CSA soldiers did not own slaves. Wealthy planters who owned 20 or more slaves were exempt from serving in the army, because they had to stay at home to “protect the white women”

It was called the “20 N[clang!] Law”

And even if they didn’t own the slaves, they aspired to one day own them. It was the lower class whites that wanted the slave trade reopened to lower the cost of slaves which the upper class whites would never agree to because it would lower the worth of the slaves they owned.

85 Great White Snark  Jun 23, 2015 11:00:43am

Charles I think you sold yourself short on that stock photo of a humble table refinish. I have used Inspect Element to look at some of that code. It must have felt more like this than the table shot…

86 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:01:19am
87 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:01:26am

re: #63 The Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

In response to the wingnut fish you had on the line earlier.

Just for future reference.

Editor’s Notes
88 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:01:56am

re: #81 jaunte

So the Confederate army had superior everything, yet the still couldn’t defeat the inferior Union army? Odd, huh?

89 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2015 11:02:42am
90 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:02:57am

re: #80 Nyet

What Coulter wrote when Eastasia was still an ally amounts to “they were idiotic nationalists who would die for a monstrous regime because they held stone age views”.

Unlike her enlightened views? //

91 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 11:03:12am

re: #88 CuriousLurker

SO the Confederate army had superior everything, yet the still couldn’t defeat the inferior Union army? Odd, huh?

Maybe God wasn’t on their side.

92 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:03:27am

re: #87 b_sharp

In response to the wingnut fish you had on the line earlier.

Just for future reference.

[Embedded content]

You can find the quote at the Stanford King Collection which is definitive except of course to delusional wingnuts who read racist shit like humanevents.

93 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:03:35am

Why, yes, the world is watching you.

94 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:04:44am

re: #88 CuriousLurker

SO the Confederate army had superior everything, yet the still couldn’t defeat the inferior Union army? Odd, huh?

HURR HURR TEH NOBLE SOUTHRONS WAS BLOCKADED BY TEH EBIL YOONYUN NAVIES BUT TEH YOONYUN HAD ALL TEH GERMANS & TEH IRISHES!!!!!!!

95 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 11:05:19am

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

No. Not at all. You are operating in a vacuum.

96 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:05:29am

re: #87 b_sharp

In response to the wingnut fish you had on the line earlier.

Just for future reference.

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You know it won’t matter, right? They’ll just say his utterances were cherry-picked, or taken out of context, or the author made them up.

97 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:06:10am

re: #91 Kragar

Maybe God wasn’t on their side.

Maybe Cthulhu is and will eat them last.

98 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 11:06:12am

re: #94 The Vicious Babushka

“No one tole us the Woah would allow the Damned Naval Yankees to sneak around and come at us up our waterways.”

99 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:06:14am

re: #96 CuriousLurker

You know it won’t matter, right? They’ll just say his utterances were cherry-picked, or taken out of context, or the author made them up.

Pretty much saying exactly that until I blocked their asses.

100 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:06:17am

re: #92 The Vicious Babushka

You can find the quote at the Stanford King Collection which is definitive except of course to delusional wingnuts who read racist shit like humanevents.

The quote at SKC is taken from the book so you might have the same problem. They can always claim an author’s embellishment unless you point out the editor’s statement.

101 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:06am

re: #95 Drive By Commenter

No. Not at all. You are operating in a vacuum.

How does Backwoods_Sleuth fit in that tiny little canister?

102 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:24am

re: #100 b_sharp

The quote at SKC is taken from the book so you might have the same problem. They can always claim an author’s embellishment unless you point out the editor’s statement.

If I point out the editor’s statement they claim it is “fanfic”

103 PhillyPretzel  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:26am

re: #96 CuriousLurker

That is part of their mindset. Everyone else is wrong and they are right. And if you do not believe that they show you a mechanically induced chemical propellant.

104 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:29am

re: #101 b_sharp

How does Backwoods_Sleuth fit in that tiny little canister?

I need to lose a few more pounds…

105 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:35am

re: #81 jaunte

Fun fact: A Union “clod hopper” gut shot the dashing J.E.B. Stuart with a .44

106 Drive By Commenter  Jun 23, 2015 11:07:54am

re: #101 b_sharp

How does Backwoods_Sleuth fit in that tiny little canister?

SC Senate Leader Hugh Leatherman seems to be.

107 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:08:27am

re: #96 CuriousLurker

You know it won’t matter, right? They’ll just say his utterances were cherry-picked, or taken out of context, or the author made them up.

They’re claiming the the autobiography is fan fiction rather than information taken from MLK’s words.

108 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 11:08:42am

Oh, and uh… speaking of campaign buttons…

109 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:09:09am

re: #99 The Vicious Babushka

Pretty much saying exactly that until I blocked their asses.

Funny thing, the quote he gave you from the editor’s note was itself cherry picked.

110 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:10:16am
111 #FergusonFireside  Jun 23, 2015 11:10:35am

re: #39 OhNoZombies!

So I guess the Southern Avenger is trying to redeem himself.
Read his article denouncing the flag and his old beliefs, and he was on CNN earlier.
Let’s just say he probably lost some of his good’ol boy buddies.

Gonna try and link from my mobile, but I kinda hate the process.

He sounded especially sincere IMHO. You never know.

112 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 11:10:38am

Dawkins is an idiot.

113 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:11:01am

re: #107 b_sharp

They’re claiming the the autobiography is fan fiction rather than information taken from MLK’s words.

Yep, that would be #3, “…the author made them up.”

114 JamesWI  Jun 23, 2015 11:12:38am

No bottom (or top) comments anymore? Good way to quickly find out if anyone said something extremely stupid that needs mockery.

115 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:13:19am

re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth

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116 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 11:14:03am

re: #114 JamesWI

No bottom (or top) comments anymore? Good way to quickly find out if anyone said something extremely stupid that needs mockery.

You can still see those on the individual article pages. It’s there on this page, in fact.

I’m trying to decide where to put those features in the new design - they’ll be there eventually.

117 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:14:48am

re: #112 wrenchwench

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Dawkins is an idiot.

If he were an idiot, that would have been at least half an excuse.

118 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 11:14:57am

re: #108 Charles Johnson

Oh, and uh… speaking of campaign buttons…

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FALSE FLAG!!!111

119 Timothy Watson  Jun 23, 2015 11:15:24am

re: #91 Kragar

Maybe God wasn’t on their side.

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln

120 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:15:25am

re: #113 CuriousLurker

Yep, that would be #3, “…the author made them up.”

LOL but this guy was killing them: (after one of the wingnuts complained that we were saying swears at them)

121 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 11:16:07am

re: #117 Nyet

If he were an idiot, that would have been at least half an excuse.

Dawkins is acting like an idiot, which has a moral component, unlike actually being an idiot.

122 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:16:31am

re: #112 wrenchwench

This has been a long time coming, of course.

123 Varek Raith  Jun 23, 2015 11:18:21am

re: #112 wrenchwench

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Dawkins is an idiot.

Dawkins is a bigot.

124 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 11:18:43am

re: #112 wrenchwench

It’s been sad to see Dawkins getting more and more bigoted over the years. I used to have a lot of respect for his reasoned atheism, but he’s given in to extremism.

125 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:18:55am

re: #120 The Vicious Babushka

LOL but this guy was killing them: (after one of the wingnuts complained that we were saying swears at them)

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The wingnut used the words ‘saying swears’?

126 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:18:57am
127 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 11:19:16am

re: #122 Nyet

This has been a long time coming, of course.

‘Of course’ barring accidents, which are not nice of me to imagine occurring to Mr. Spencer. I should content myself with his friendship with Geller, which would be hell enough on earth for most people.

128 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 11:20:03am

re: #124 Charles Johnson

It’s been sad to see Dawkins getting more and more bigoted over the years. I used to have a lot of respect for his reasoned atheism, but he’s given in to extremism.

Intelligence is overrated. Dawkins needs to learn that.

129 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:20:04am

re: #125 b_sharp

The wingnut used the words ‘saying swears’?

I used it, just now.

I don’t know what the wingnut said because he was already blocked, but apparently clutching pearls that french4johnwayne called him a “fucktard”

130 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:20:12am

re: #124 Charles Johnson

It’s been sad to see Dawkins getting more and more bigoted over the years. I used to have a lot of respect for his reasoned atheism, but he’s given in to extremism.

His biology books are still very good, but his focus change from science to atheism broke the head off of a screw or two.

131 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 11:20:47am
132 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:20:49am

heh:

133 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 11:21:02am

re: #124 Charles Johnson

It has appeared to me that Dawkins has been swept up by his own cause so much that he has lost the ability to pick wisely his friends, and that he won’t differentiate between harmful beliefs and inconsequential associations.

134 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 11:21:30am

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

What’s Ben complaining about now?

135 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2015 11:21:43am

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

I used it, just now.

I don’t know what the wingnut said because he was already blocked, but apparently clutching pearls that french4johnwayne called him a “fucktard”

I’m used to hearing that particular phrase when talking to or about children.

136 allegro  Jun 23, 2015 11:21:44am

re: #123 Varek Raith

Dawkins is a bigot.

And misogynist. I’ll never forget my disgust at his Dear Muslima and doubling down since.

137 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:21:45am

re: #124 Charles Johnson

It’s been sad to see Dawkins getting more and more bigoted over the years. I used to have a lot of respect for his reasoned atheism, but he’s given in to extremism.

A lot of people lose it as they get older, especially if they have a lot of supporters who tell them they’re great. It even happens to smart people.

He’s still ahead of most of us since he was able to not only persuade Lalla Ward to marry him, but they’re still together.

138 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:22:43am

re: #130 b_sharp

His biology books are still very good, but his focus change from science to atheism broke the head off of a screw or two.

The atheistic reasoning in his The God Delusion won’t become worse for him revealing himself as a bigot either, that would be an ad hominem. But a “social authority” he most certainly is not.

139 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 23, 2015 11:23:02am

re: #131 Charles Johnson

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140 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:23:04am

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

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141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 23, 2015 11:24:12am

re: #14 Kragar

Rand Paul says Confederate flag should be “put in a museum.”

Or on the face of one of his aides…

142 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2015 11:25:44am
143 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 23, 2015 11:25:55am

Hey Charles, any chance the individual post page is going to get a makeover as well? I rarely visit the front page.
(apologies if this has been asked and answered)

144 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2015 11:26:28am

re: #136 allegro

And misogynist. I’ll never forget my disgust at his Dear Muslima and doubling down since.

He sees himself as the thing to measure everyone else against. Women will always be alien to him. As will anyone who believes differently than him.

145 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 11:26:47am

The problem with believing too much in one’s own cause is that one can be blinded to viewing people and issues through other sets of eyes.

In the case of Dawkins - I agree with him that fundamentalist religions around the world are detrimental, but I refuse to go along with groups and individuals (like Spencer) who want to turn that into a war cry.

If anything about this Confederate flag debacle should teach us, is that wars for causes create wreckage. A cause may be quite good in our eyes, but going to war for it will be pricier than the hawks always are willing to admit.

146 Romantic Heretic  Jun 23, 2015 11:27:04am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY Lunchtime Edition==>

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‘Patriot’ has become one of the most Orwellian words in existence.

147 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:27:23am

re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth

148 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:28:30am

re: #146 Romantic Heretic

‘Patriot’ has become one of the most Orwellian words in existence.

It’s been that for centuries now. Samuel Johnson lived in the 18th century.

149 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 23, 2015 11:28:33am

re: #146 Romantic Heretic

‘Patriot’ has become one of the most Orwellian words in existence.

“Someone who supports my idealized views and vision of what America should be and should have been”

150 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 11:29:46am

re: #147 No Country For Old Haters

“…Students at the University of Texas at Austin are continuing to voice their desire to remove the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on campus. The statue was recently spray-painted with the tags, “Black Lives Matter” and “Bump ALL The Chumps.”
college.usatoday.com

151 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:31:14am

What is it about wingnut hate of FLOTUS that they have to make her skin darker in their hate memes?

152 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:31:27am

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

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SQUIRREL, dammit, I said SQUIRREL!! Are you people deaf? We need to get back to scaremongering over the real bad guys, Muslims.

153 freetoken  Jun 23, 2015 11:31:40am

I write that after reading Robert M. T. Hunter’s little essay “Origin of the Late War”.

Recommend reading that essay, as you will hear echoes of it in so much of the backward politics of the likes of Rand Paul and a great deal of the GOP these days.

It’s a sad essay because the author, Hunter, clearly believed in his cause (of the South) and “states rights” even though it is pretty clear that the protestation against loss of “property” means loss of slaves.

When one reads Coulter or R. McCain and their friends one is hearing the regurgitation of Hunter (and other of his fellows who wrote similarly right after the war.)

154 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2015 11:32:20am

I grabbed the wrong hate meme from #tcot, they’re coming in really fast.

155 The War TARDIS  Jun 23, 2015 11:32:22am

re: #136 allegro

I missed this. Can you explain what happened?

156 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:33:15am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

What is it about wingnut hate of FLOTUS that they have to make her skin darker in their hate memes?

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157 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 11:33:17am

Confederate apologists infesting the comments at The Daily Texan (UT newspaper)

(April 17, 2015)
Jefferson Davis statue vandalized once again, this time with spray paint
dailytexanonline.com

158 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 11:33:49am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

What is it about wingnut hate of FLOTUS that they have to make her skin darker in their hate memes?

Stay classy, RWNJ.

159 Kragar  Jun 23, 2015 11:33:59am
160 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2015 11:34:57am

re: #159 Kragar

They already do.

161 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 23, 2015 11:35:21am

re: #157 jaunte

Confederate apologists infesting the comments at The Daily Texan (UT newspaper)

(April 17, 2015)
Jefferson Davis statue vandalized once again, this time with spray paint
dailytexanonline.com

Typical Demoncrats.

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162 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:35:28am

Despite everything, it’s nice to witness the further marginalization of the rag happening.

163 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 11:35:46am

Confederate flag urinal target:
armedforcesinsignia.com

164 Romantic Heretic  Jun 23, 2015 11:36:43am

re: #81 jaunte

Well, the North won the war because of von Moltke; Amateurs study tactics. Experts study logistics.

The North had the logistics to win the war, and once they allowed black soldiers they had a severe man power advantage plus those black soldiers were really motivated.

Oh those ‘black Confederate soldiers’? My understanding is that they were a special militia who raised themselves to defend New Orleans. They switched sides as soon as the Union took the place. It was their homes they were fighting for, not the Confederacy.

165 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:36:48am

re: #136 allegro

And misogynist. I’ll never forget my disgust at his Dear Muslima and doubling down since.

Wow, I hadn’t heard about that one and had to Google it. Ugh.

166 blueraven  Jun 23, 2015 11:37:13am

re: #19 The Vicious Babushka

Where do we put this guy, Rand?

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The ‘Southern Avenger’ Repents: I Was Wrong About the Confederate Flag

States’ rights? Heritage? I was wrong: The Confederate flag has always been about race.
As a Charleston, South Carolina-based conservative radio personality known as the “Southern Avenger,” I spent a decade defending the Confederate flag that is yet again the center of so much controversy.

I said the flag was about states’ rights. I said it stood for self-determination. I said it honored heritage.

I argued the Confederate flag wasn’t about race. I believed it. Millions of well-meaning Southerners believe it too.

I was wrong. That flag is always about race. Whatever political or historical points the flag’s defenders make, there will never be a time—and never has been a time—in which millions of Americans have looked at that symbol and not seen hatred.

Much more at link. I am not sure yet if I believe him.

167 jaunte  Jun 23, 2015 11:37:41am

re: #161 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

James Cranford is all over the treason talking points.

168 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2015 11:37:47am

re: #166 blueraven

The ‘Southern Avenger’ Repents: I Was Wrong About the Confederate Flag

Much more at link. I am not sure yet if I believe him.

I don’t.

169 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 23, 2015 11:38:07am

Failing all else, the argument is being derailed: Nobody is going to outlaw or prohibit the display of the Confederate flag…by private citizens.

It has just been decided that it is inappropriate for a government body or institution to display it anywhere outside a museum.

170 blueraven  Jun 23, 2015 11:39:13am

re: #168 Charles Johnson

I don’t.

I have to see more from him than this to be convinced.

171 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:40:05am

re: #166 blueraven

Nice to see that change for the better is possible. (Hey, we should know, we’re at LGF.)

172 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:41:05am

re: #170 blueraven

I have to see more from him than this to be convinced.

He’s been at it for some time.

173 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2015 11:41:07am

re: #170 blueraven

I have to see more from him than this to be convinced.

THIS. Talk is cheap. Let’s see if he walks the walk—only time will tell.

174 allegro  Jun 23, 2015 11:42:41am

re: #155 The War TARDIS

I missed this. Can you explain what happened?

It was in the midst of the Elevatorgate kerfuffle. Rebecca Watson, Skepchick, in a talk about making atheist conferences more welcoming to women told a story about a guy who came on to her at 4am in an elevator and advised, “guys, don’t do that.” It set off a misogynist firestorm of really nasty shit. In a Pharyngula post about it, Dawkins wrote a particularly sarcastic and ugly post, I.e. Dear Muslima, that most thought had to be a scam written by someone else. But nope, it was him and he just doubled down when called on it.

175 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:43:32am

re: #168 Charles Johnson

I don’t.

I’d take it a lot more seriously if he didn’t blame “collectivist thinking.” He’s still looking at the world through a wingnut lens.

176 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 23, 2015 11:45:10am

re: #174 allegro

That split the atheist movement in half. Fortunately while I understand that the supernatural is imaginary, I don’t see any point in getting involved in a social group built around that.

177 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:48:51am

re: #176 No Country For Old Haters

I understand the need for orgs that defend our, atheists’ and agnostics’, irreligious freedoms. More than that? Not for me.

Well, OK, it actually makes sense in a society that pushes religion and pushes it hard, like the US does, to have “support orgs” for those who are “coming out” as unbelievers. I hear it’s pretty hard in some places, esp. in deep South. Can get lonely too. So I won’t knock it. But it’s not for me.

178 allegro  Jun 23, 2015 11:48:56am

re: #176 No Country For Old Haters

That split the atheist movement in half. Fortunately while I understand that the supernatural is imaginary, I don’t see any point in getting involved in a social group built around that.

It sure flipped over a rock that a whole swarm of ugly critters crawled out from under.

179 allegro  Jun 23, 2015 11:51:57am

re: #177 Nyet

I understand the need for orgs that defend our, atheists’ and agnostics’, irreligious freedoms. More than that? Not for me.

Well, OK, it actually makes sense in a society that pushes religion and pushes it hard, like the US to have “support orgs” for those who are “coming out” as atheists. I hear it’s pretty hard in some places, esp. in deep South. So I won’t knock it. But it’s not for me.

My activism has always been directed at getting the religionist anti-science crap out of schools and government.

180 Nyet  Jun 23, 2015 11:55:39am

re: #179 allegro

My activism has always been directed at getting the religionist anti-science crap out of schools and government.

Kudos!

181 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 23, 2015 11:57:50am

re: #164 Romantic Heretic

Well, the North won the war because of von Moltke; Amateurs study tactics. Experts study logistics.

The North had the logistics to win the war, and once they allowed black soldiers they had a severe man power advantage plus those black soldiers were really motivated.

Oh those ‘black Confederate soldiers’? My understanding is that they were a special militia who raised themselves to defend New Orleans. They switched sides as soon as the Union took the place. It was their homes they were fighting for, not the Confederacy.

1st Louisiana Native Guard. You can read what the Confederacy really thought of them on the wikipedia page.

The Louisiana State Legislature passed a law in January 1862 that reorganized the militia into only “…free white males capable of bearing arms…

en.wikipedia.org

182 BeachDem  Jun 23, 2015 11:59:37am

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

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And speaking of Charles P. Pierce (as is my wont), from:

Nikki Haley and the Confederate Flag of Treason, Day 2
In which the self-congratulation continues.

It was the Day Of Jubilee on Squint And The Meat Puppet Tuesday morning…

If you look closely, in the background, you can see obvious anagram Reince Priebus, the emptiest suit in American politics, who was in attendance to represent the Republican party’s long-standing opposition to the display of symbols of treason, a solid principle since at least last Wednesday.

esquire.com

I do love Squint And The Meat Puppet. Pierce could put out a book with just his nicknames for various and sundry folks and it would probably be a best-seller.

183 William Lewis  Jun 23, 2015 12:07:03pm

re: #46 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Wow. Sounds like he means it.

I read it. I’d like to believe it. Still not sure; only time will tell.

184 Decatur Deb  Jun 23, 2015 12:15:44pm

re: #183 William Lewis

I read it. I’d like to believe it. Still not sure; only time will tell.

If someone tells the truth, loudly, it doesn’t much matter whether they believe it.

185 Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2015 1:09:57pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

They already do.

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It’s rough, tough, and doesn’t take shit off anyone!


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