A Thread in the Shape of a Circle: For Target Practice

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by Eric Martini-Henry

A place where we can gather around and shoot each other in the face.  Just like the Vice President taught us.   

Speaking of Cheney, he’s so evil that conservatives use his malevolance as a yardstick with which to measure others’ dedication to the cause of conservatism.  Which is apparently evil.  Not to mention racist, deceitful, selfish and promiscuous.

Anyway, lock and load*. 

And no ducking.

(*No lasers Gary)

38 thoughts on “A Thread in the Shape of a Circle: For Target Practice”

  1. No, no, Eric. Didn’t you see? As I wrote on my own wee little blog, Cheney is actually lovable. It is us that are wrong.
    I feel so guilty for having misjudged him.

  4. Where do you get off, you sick little twist? Sexual? I’m not sexual with them. I’m not abusive with them, how dare you write that in your paper without knowing nothing about me, biting’s not sex, it’s biting! I’m not sick like that. Maybe I should come bite you, would you like that, scotty? I bet you would like that, I am right? You write about me like I’m sick. You’re the sick one, you know that? Is that why you like me, scotty? Is that why? I could come bite you; you tell me how sexual it is. You humiliate me like that? You mortify me like that in front of my father? My father’s father? Listen to me, smack daddy, crack daddy, little baby whack daddy, here’s what’s happening. You ain’t never going to find them anymore. You aint never gonna see them no more. I’m sending you something right now, You take a good look at this guy, because you ain’t ver going to see him no more.

  5. cleek @4:34:
    2 words…ok, 3. Better make it 3 and a number, ok, maybe 4 or 5… whatever:
    Evan Mecham, Governor, Republican, Arizona 1988.

  9. Hi — Gary doesn’t seem to be able to post at all. He writes:
    “I don’t mean I don’t want to: I mean I can’t. All I get are greyed out, nonfunctional, buttons for “post” and “preview,” and no other options. (…) Also, if anyone has any tips on what I might do to fix this, I’d welcome them. I’ve already tried IE and Google Chrome, as well as Firefox, as well as making sure scripts run and Adblock is whitelisted, and everything else I can think of, save for uninstalling every last anti-spyware program.”
    I don’t know what TypePad has done now, but it’s not a problem for me. If anyone else can’t comment, email the kitty and let us know. Thanks, and sorry.

  10. It appears that folks can’t comment unless they are signed in to typepad tonight. The post and preview box are grayed out by default until you start typing a comment when you are signed in, but stay gray when not logged in.

  14. Yes cleek, but are you signed in to typepad? When I said folks, I was using the royal we. Both IE 7 and Firefox 3 work for me when signed in to typepad and appear to fail when signed out.

  17. I haven’t had any problem, and I’m not signed into Typepad. As cleek says, the buttons are grayed out until you type some text. The preview and captcha occur by JavaScript within the same page now, with no loading of a new page (which can be annoying if you remember at the captcha stage that you wanted to change something in the comment, since you can no longer hit “back” and edit).
    I’m using Firefox 3.0.5 on OS X 10.5.6 with no blocking add-ons at the moment, JavaScript settings at the default, I think.

  19. Cheney,
    How evil is he?
    He’s so evil that he evicted Chthulhu from his undisclosed location in forgotton Rh’lyeh.

  20. Sophocles tried to type that identical post twice on my blog, but WordPress decided it was probably spam, and on the whole, I agree with WordPress on this one.
    I’m quite impressed with this new change. But I notice that the threads still break at 50, so Six Apart are still scum and Typepad is still my least favourite blogging software.

  21. Testing. Oh, wait, apparently the combination of signing into Typekey and letting all scripts, including “Yahopis.com” and “quantserve.com,” run, and putting text in, will finally un-grey the options.
    Pshew. Boy, this was annoying.

  22. I think Typepad has once again fielded a load that they failed to adequately test. I didn’t mean “fielded a load” in the Dick Cheney sense, but you’re welcome to take that and run with it.

  25. From Eric’s Mother Jones link: “Benry is evil to be sure — but he’s pure, solid, wonderful evil in the mold of Dick Cheney”
    Nope.
    Being a loyal “Lost” fan — Where the hell did the island go in last spring’s season finale? Will Kate and Jack ever live happily ever after, as they should? Is Locke really dead? If so, how’d he die? How will Jack react when he finds our Claire is his half-sister? And will Claire’s freaky ghost be the one to tell him? — I agree that Ben, one of the all-time great TV baddies, spews a kind of “wonderful evil,” leaving you thinking what this guy will do next: hard to top egging on the commando who killed the daughter he clearly loved, when said commando did not need much egging on.
    But I never thought of Cheney as wonderful in any context whatsoever.
    P.S. Dan, I liked your headline — “Unfortunatley, he was eating a puppy at the time of the interview” — above the post about Cheney saying he has gotten a bum rap.

  27. I posted this on the “fern” thread but probably too late for anyone to notice. So…
    Re. torture investigation, Terry Gross just interviewed Philippe Sands (professor of law at University College London, author of Torture Team) on this topic.
    Here is a related post by Duncan Hollis with many useful links.
    [Oho! the POST and PREVIEW buttons are grey after a paste. I had to press an additional key to get them activated.]

  29. Thanks very much for that link, ral.
    And speaking of labor law and returning the Democratic Party to a commitment to working people, Tom Geoghegan for Congress. The most cheering event in electoral politics in quite a while.
    Just over the mountain in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, we recently upgraded from Virgil Goode to Tom Periello. The good people of Illinois’ Fifth District have a chance to trade up from Rahm Emanuel to someone incomparably more dedicated to the public good.

  30. OT(I did not see anyone mentioning it yet): In the last answer questions session at changedotgov the question whether Obama would abolish Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was answered with a single word: YES!

  31. In the last answer questions session at changedotgov the question whether Obama would abolish Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was answered with a single word: YES!
    This was linked to several times in other threads. We’ll see if it actually means anything when we see what Obama actually does.

  32. Jes, If he hadn’t tossed aside an equally unequivocal commitment on FISA when the going got tough, I’d be countering with the point that at least ‘Yes’ is an unequivocal commitment.
    And I missed it in other threads, so am glad to learn of it.

  34. “Just over the mountain in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, we recently upgraded from Virgil Goode to Tom Periello.”
    That made me so happy. What a dramatically wonderful change, from a complete a**hole, to a fantastic new voice in Congress.

  35. If he hadn’t tossed aside an equally unequivocal commitment on FISA when the going got tough, I’d be countering with the point that at least ‘Yes’ is an unequivocal commitment.
    We need to push and push for a special prosecutor, against torture, and for all the other change we believe in.
    Agreed on both of these.
    Obama has changed his mind and his position on a handful of fairly consequential points since declaring for President. I don’t think this makes him a liar, or corrupt, or fundamentally untrustworthy as a person. On the contrary, I think it reflects a fundamentally pragmatic, as opposed to ideological, approach to public policy.
    But I also think it means that folks who supported him for what they understood to be his support for positions that are important to them need to stay on their toes, and need to hold his feet to the fire.
    Push away.

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