Comments on: Late Nite FDL: Language http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:01:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Boudica http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401497 Boudica Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:42:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401497 <p>Lookit, when reading a post it is incumbent upon the reader to be able to understand that sometimes the post is bigger than the words used therein. It is also necessary to understand that the post may be dressed up a bit to highlight or draw attention to particularly salient sections. The fact is, these same techniques can be found in great literature. If certain readers are hoping to read articles styled for their own particular taste, they’d be best served by self selecting at a book store or maintaining a steady relationship with authors they are familiar with. Otherwise let’s assume we are all grownups and can withstand the shock of ideas and words. If you read it, and don’t like it on its’ merits, fine . That is fair game. It is where the comments serve to either disagree, extend or reinforce thoughts. If something is crazy, bizarro foul, it might merit a mention. Never encountered anything like that here. Nitpicking is not warranted under any circumstance. Just suck it up if it offends sensitivities, read for the larger points, or make a mental note that the author is not someone you’re likely to read again. There is nothing worse than the Thought Police, unless it’s the Word Police. And as for “beautiful minds”, let each take personal responsibility for their own!</p> Lookit, when reading a post it is incumbent upon the reader to be able to understand that sometimes the post is bigger than the words used therein. It is also necessary to understand that the post may be dressed up a bit to highlight or draw attention to particularly salient sections. The fact is, these same techniques can be found in great literature. If certain readers are hoping to read articles styled for their own particular taste, they’d be best served by self selecting at a book store or maintaining a steady relationship with authors they are familiar with. Otherwise let’s assume we are all grownups and can withstand the shock of ideas and words. If you read it, and don’t like it on its’ merits, fine . That is fair game. It is where the comments serve to either disagree, extend or reinforce thoughts. If something is crazy, bizarro foul, it might merit a mention. Never encountered anything like that here. Nitpicking is not warranted under any circumstance. Just suck it up if it offends sensitivities, read for the larger points, or make a mental note that the author is not someone you’re likely to read again. There is nothing worse than the Thought Police, unless it’s the Word Police. And as for “beautiful minds”, let each take personal responsibility for their own!

]]> By: Tom W. http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401495 Tom W. Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:41:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401495 <p>Thanks Christy - no axe then, no axe now.</p> Thanks Christy – no axe then, no axe now.

]]> By: johnSwifty http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401493 johnSwifty Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:40:15 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401493 <p><a href="#comment-401487"><em>JoyB @<br /> 632 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>And JohnSweety, ahem, <em>Swifty</em>. Thank you.</p></blockquote> <p>So, you’ll be neglecting your child regularly and contributing for all your worth! I can tell that’s not gonna happen, but I’ll read anything you have to offer. Hell, I’m never leaving this thread. And you’re more than welcome.</p> JoyB @
632

And JohnSweety, ahem, Swifty. Thank you.

So, you’ll be neglecting your child regularly and contributing for all your worth! I can tell that’s not gonna happen, but I’ll read anything you have to offer. Hell, I’m never leaving this thread. And you’re more than welcome.

]]> By: JoyB http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401487 JoyB Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:30:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401487 <p>And JohnSweety, ahem, <em>Swifty</em>. Thank you.</p> And JohnSweety, ahem, Swifty. Thank you.

]]> By: JoyB http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401486 JoyB Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:29:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401486 <p>Hey Kirk, you didn’t have to apologize to me way, way back when. I took your meaning well, and it actually kind of applied to me, to be honest. No harm done whatsoever.</p> Hey Kirk, you didn’t have to apologize to me way, way back when. I took your meaning well, and it actually kind of applied to me, to be honest. No harm done whatsoever.

]]> By: T- http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401480 T- Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:25:53 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401480 <p>scarecrow, you brilliantly cut through the fog of the issues relative to this post and pointed our compass towards true north. Thank you.</p> <p><a href="#comment-401068"><em>scarecrow @ 591 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I found it interesting that immanentize, in an early comment, asked about certain people. Where are they? Why aren’t they here? I too miss them. <em>And then over the next hour or so, many of them showed up</em>. We’re mostly still here, and I think we need to reflect on what that means. </p> <p>There seems to be a deeply shared and powerful ethic that’s flowing underneath all the pain and division in this thread, along with all the efforts to reach out and embrace. Many of us are here not only for the sense of community, but the hope of expanding it, of politicizing it, of taking it to the country. </p> <p>I want to express the hope that we all remain here — all of us — and keep working at this. We don’t always like each other, or always agree with each other, but lets keep listing and talking to each other because the conversation is really important. This has never been done before, there are no manuals for this, and yet look at all that firedoglake has become in such a short time. Look what we just did in the mid-term elections.</p> <p>I hope we all hang in there, realizing that, as our beloved President says, “this is hard work.” After all, if we can’t keep firedoglake together, with this strongly felt common ethic, what hope do we have of pulling the Democratic party (or country) together under some sense of humane, shared values? This is what we are about. Let’s get on with it.</p></blockquote> scarecrow, you brilliantly cut through the fog of the issues relative to this post and pointed our compass towards true north. Thank you.

scarecrow @ 591

I found it interesting that immanentize, in an early comment, asked about certain people. Where are they? Why aren’t they here? I too miss them. And then over the next hour or so, many of them showed up. We’re mostly still here, and I think we need to reflect on what that means.

There seems to be a deeply shared and powerful ethic that’s flowing underneath all the pain and division in this thread, along with all the efforts to reach out and embrace. Many of us are here not only for the sense of community, but the hope of expanding it, of politicizing it, of taking it to the country.

I want to express the hope that we all remain here — all of us — and keep working at this. We don’t always like each other, or always agree with each other, but lets keep listing and talking to each other because the conversation is really important. This has never been done before, there are no manuals for this, and yet look at all that firedoglake has become in such a short time. Look what we just did in the mid-term elections.

I hope we all hang in there, realizing that, as our beloved President says, “this is hard work.” After all, if we can’t keep firedoglake together, with this strongly felt common ethic, what hope do we have of pulling the Democratic party (or country) together under some sense of humane, shared values? This is what we are about. Let’s get on with it.

]]> By: kirk murphy http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401390 kirk murphy Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:11:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401390 <p>Hi Hope!</p> <p>Hope :) all is well for you and for Mr. Turtle.</p> <p>I’ve missed seeing you here.</p> <p>If you’d like to get together when you’re in the Bay Area, my addy is kmurphy (aaaat) riseup (daught) net.</p> <p>Be well, Hope!</p> Hi Hope!

Hope :) all is well for you and for Mr. Turtle.

I’ve missed seeing you here.

If you’d like to get together when you’re in the Bay Area, my addy is kmurphy (aaaat) riseup (daught) net.

Be well, Hope!

]]> By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401376 egregious Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:01:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401376 <p>[waving hi at Hope!]</p> [waving hi at Hope!]

]]> By: op99 http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401357 op99 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:44:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401357 <p>HopeSAT, LOL.</p> HopeSAT, LOL.

]]> By: Jane Hamsher http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401342 Jane Hamsher Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:31:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/29/late-nite-fdl-language/#comment-401342 <p>a former commenter — I don’t think anyone on FDL ever argued that the imagery or its use was above criticism, but feel free to link back to it if I am mistaken.</p> <p>And we’re not throwing traffic to a site that calls DarkBlack a white supremacist, so you’ll have to make any further points on your own.</p> a former commenter — I don’t think anyone on FDL ever argued that the imagery or its use was above criticism, but feel free to link back to it if I am mistaken.

And we’re not throwing traffic to a site that calls DarkBlack a white supremacist, so you’ll have to make any further points on your own.

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