This comment was fun to write.

The self-righteously PC dogmatism with which it was responded to and moderated were, of course, utterly predictable.

Throwing things at the wall to see what sticks -- this thread goes on and on. It's kind of sad to see a guy hang on to his claims of `truthiness' (hat tip: Colbert) long after he has backed away from or openly admitted as false every claim with which he started the thread.

So here are a few recent threads of interest:

• A somewhat interesting thread sprang out of my last Journal Entry as well. I'll probably devote some more journal space to this one in the next day or two.
• In this thread, we get a

NeMon'ess asks:

It's been two years. Last I remember you were quite a Bush defender. Any political stuff you'd care to talk about that didn't turn out quite like you expected?

Well, it's been a year since I've spent much time here, and I thought I'd poke my head in and see how y'all are doing. For the most part, it looks like the more things change, the more things remain the same, with a few honorable mentions in these categories:

``Another year older and no wiser'' category

These guys seem to be carrying on pretty much where we all left off:

Thought for the day:

``In the perfect world, the schools would be held to the same standard of excellence that our military is, and the teachers unions would have to hold a bake sale when they want to buy a Senator.''

Discuss.

I'm gaining a lot of respect for Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and other novels. Some time ago, I had pointed people here, in several posts, to this piece he wrote on Iraq and North Korea, and ellem and others have pointed out his recent piece, picked u

This gem comes via NewsHax:

Bush Endorses Dean for Democratic Nomination

Two more threads, both fun ones:

In this thread, we get a look at correct and incorrect use of the term `Orwellian' before diving into a look at the cold war and how it was won.

In 1999, Fr. Thomas Hopko (OCA) wrote:

It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression (although I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor like a Priam in armor to offer myself as its champion), that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless

Every thread should have a punchline as good as the one I've been linking to in the past two JE's does.

Kind of a fun thread developing in this JE of GMontag's. Another sign of how desperate many on the left are to grasp at any wild claim -- no matter how long since discredited -- to back their wild conspiracy theories.

I know, I know. It's usually bad form to respond to people's sigs. But I couldn't resist. :-)

Update: This thread is kind of fun, too, at least as an exposure of what anti-religious bigotry usually looks like these days.