dengerstein!Something unspeakably sad has happened.  I'm not even sure that I'm prepared to talk about it yet, but in the name of keeping you all well-informed and upholding FDL's standard of unflinchingly covering the tragedies and travesties of the political world, I will swallow my tears and press on.

Sigh.

Part-time Lieberman shill and full-time blog-stalker DANGERSTEIN won't be blogging anymore, at least for a while.

To wit:

 Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Temporary Blogout
Just as I was getting back into the blogswing of things I went and broke my wrist playing basketball over the holiday weekend. That's going to put me on the disabled list for a little while — typing with my off hand not really conducive to long-form blogging. But hope to be back waxing polemic in a couple weeks.

Oh, take your time, DANGERSTEIN.  I can't see that a few weeks of silence from you is going to inflict any mortal damage upon the greater blogging world (especially when you're making up words like "blogswing", ew).  Although given the chronically sweaty, tumescent quality of your published oeuvre, I would have thought that you were quite the expert at one-handed typing. 

I am going to try to see this development as something other than a cosmic birthday present, that your blogging hand and your lone sexual partner were both sidelined with one cruel blow by the Fates.  And it's a bit difficult to not speculate about Divine Intervention when your Big Daddy is getting smacked around by the troops.  For you see, Senator Liebfraumilch is on another (heavily guarded, helmeted, and body-armored, natch) junket to Iraq.  He sent a military spokesman out to gather questions from the ground-level troops and…

30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

"When are we going to get out of here?"

Poor Dan, I know it's going to be hard for you to sit idly by on the couch, unable to foam and froth at the computer as people are being so vile and presumptuous as to ask legitimate questions of your Lord and Savior, the Martyr Joe-sus Christ, but seriously, I think this has happened for your own good.  You can muddy the waters regarding Lefty bloggers all you want, but attempting to assassinate the characters of US service personnel, well, you should leave that to professionals like Melanie Morgan.

Just listen to the Percocets, Dan.  All you really want to do is watch "The Crow" on DVD and call people you haven't spoken to in seven years, and say things like, "Listen man, I really, really love you.  I mean, not in a gay way or anything, but I just love you, you know?  Hello?"

It's like I said last fall:

Sending DANGERSTEIN out to do spin control for your campaign is a lot like trying to change a diaper with a molotov cocktail.  It doesn’t do anything about the shit, and now everything’s on fire!  Yay, Dan Gerstein!

Take care of that wrist, son.  I know you'll be back to "waxing" your "polemic" for all the world's hearty amusement in no time.  Get well soon.