oj, congratulations. Nice to see you cited by a great mind like Steyn.

Looks like he's a reader and might even be a commenter. I wonder what his nom de blog is?

That's it.
When feelings are substituted for thought, the rule passes to those with the strongest, least rational feelings. Thus we are left with a kind of trelocracy, a rule of the insane.

When one enters the kitchen, one must be prepared for the heat. There is a line passing through so-called "Black thought," which goes something like, "Sure, we're crazy,but you white folks made us crazy, so now you owe us."

Let us set aside the obvious criticisms or that "thought," and apply to the instant discussion as though it were valid. No one, at least no one in the United States, should want a crazy person as our president.

So what we are seeing now is straight Trelocracy in the Democrat party. Infatuation has taken over and Nemesis and Ate are waiting in the wings. Steyn really nailed this one.

>> Looks like he's a reader and might even be a commenter. I wonder what his nom de blog is?

Let's put it this way: Steyn quoting Orrin is as Eric Roberts talking about Julia...

:-)

It is amusing, but I'm worried that the economic situation will be held against McCain by the voters. And I wouldn't put it past Soros and other lefty billionaires to engage in a little economic sabotage just before the election.

I just discovered your blog after reading this Steyn article. I hope you got a lot of new hits from it.

OJ, the blog is great and you deserve the cite from Steyn. Congrats. Between that and your long call of McCain triumph, it's been a good several months.

Still, I remember the days of dozens of comments flying back and forth. Hope those days return with new readers, even if it means you, OJ, ultimately get more issues wrong than right. Once, it was all about the glory of the fray. I hope the lack of vehement running arguments and thinly-cloaked goading insults doesn't mean your blog has "matured."

Tickets please, tickets please; racial guilt trip boarding on track one, gender guilt trip boarding on track two; tickets, please...

Posted by: Mikey at March 8, 2008 4:46 PM

** Still, I remember the days of dozens of comments flying back and forth. Hope those days return with new readers, even if it means you, OJ, ultimately get more issues wrong than right. Once, it was all about the glory of the fray. I hope the lack of vehement running arguments and thinly-cloaked goading insults doesn't mean your blog has "matured." **

It may just mean that the proprietor is busy posting two dozen items or so per day to his hobby blog (and busy with life as well), and may not personally have time to answer all commenters (who outnumber him, on any given day, by perhaps a hundred or so I would guess).

I'd have to vote just the opposite, actually. I don't care if Orrin takes the time to answer a single commenter, if it cuts down the number of posts that offer his perspective on current affairs. That perspective is why I read the blog.

There's an inherent problem in that the sorts of folks who are most argumentative in comments are also the most likely to explode in anger, start calling names, and storm off in a huff. You can string them along for awhile but sooner or later their true colors tend to show.

Kevin: Sometimes oj cutting you to the quick is what makes you think. He may not be right (from your perspective, etc.), but he makes you see another viewpoint. I try to do this every day in my classroom (of course, I'm trying to churn out little conservatives too, but that's another story). : )

I've got no problem with being wrong. Indeed, I often argue viewpoints I know are wrong precisely because it sharpens thought for both sides. The folks who start hurling expletives and storm off don't do so because they were right. They do so because they're unbalanced, which is why they troll to begin with.

Just a for instance or two:

Bart was banned after repeated use of racial and queer epithets against fellow commenters.

Harry Eagar stopped commenting because I wouldn't let him charge that Dietrich Bonhoffer was a Nazi.

Conversation with such people isn't useful, it indulges their illness.

Lou, you're amazing. Both Google and I are stumped -- Trelocracy?

oj, This blog is great and I enjoy it a lot, even more so now that new comments appear in Bloglines and while I mostly agree with you and the other commenters, it's nice to have differences of opinions too, no matter how outré.

Now OJ, Harry probably considers most all Christians to be Nazis. He certainly thought all Nazis to be Christian (quite an error, eh?).

I have often wondered if Mark Steyn drops in now and then - but what surprises me most about this blog is that so few other "conservative" blogs, especially religious-themed ones, link to it. Perhaps that is due to the love of higher gas taxes, or the pro-immigration posts, or the virtual non-commentary on 2nd Amendment issues, or because OJ was right about McCain and most conservative blogs still can't accept his nomination. This blog puts almost every other conservative blog to shame - perhaps they are just embarrassed. :>)

Links are just a function of links.