I've Been Banned at Dkos

(I know I've beat this issue into a whimpering pulp until it's pissing blood, but hypocrisy and disingenuousness aren't only to be embraced and celebrated by the dimwits on the right. Apparently no one's yet cornered the market on obtuseness, and to my knowledge there's not yet a patent pending on a device that allows you to talk out of both sides of your mouth. Hmm... Or has there™?)

So if I'm not mistaken, I believe I've been banned from posting diaries at dailykos.com, though I've not been flushed (yet). I found out because I logged on in order to post this, and then "All Things Southern: Volume I". (No link for that one. You're welcome.) Too bad. That puppy had something for everyone in the entire family.

It's a shame because I was, in my of late meager spare time, revving up the "Okay, kossacks, this has been fun, good times, I guess I don't get it" post as a farewell to them and a tribute to all the interesting experiences I've had with those nutty kids over the last months, and how proud I was that I finally knew what a "tip jar" was. It was good. Trust me. I'd post it here but there's no point. (And yes, it would've been preceded by "Jesus Was A Liberal Faggot Socialist". Offensive and contradictory, if you think about it.)

I don’t think it's a glitch. Under "Tools" there's only the "Your Hotlist" option; no "New Diary" option. (It's no coincidence that under "Tools" they could just as easily list a roster of kos diarists. Ha ha ha!)

Ultimately they win. Which is why "they" don't win. I think, if you'll recall, that our very own Schadenfreude said it best:

Puzzling to me is that Daily Kos, a "liberal" site, uses fascist tactics to stifle and silence dissent, and even takes some perverse pride in driving away the voices that could make it interesting and useful.

As it is, Daily Kos is an echo chamber which must, eventually, become as boring to its most fanatical adherents as it is to everyone else.

That's right on the money and unusually reserved for our moody friend. Well said, m'boy!

An analogy: The Fray is a liberal arts college. We're all professors with tenure where you'd practically have to fuck a coed in the middle of the quad at high noon with the entire board of directors looking on (and the Provost) to get fired. Dkos is a Bible College where if you so much as mention Darwin you're drummed out of town with the voracity of the beloved lynch mobs of old, and then hung (out to dry) swinging in the wind. Accurate? Ironic? I'm still working on it.

My first diary there was "Hustle and Float, A DVD Review". My last, apparently, is "It Wasn't Mark Foley's Fault". That's quite the ideological journey, if you ask me.

I won't lie to you; I feel a little hurt and deprived, if not depraved. One of the things that irritates me to no end, even more than people who eat with their feet, is being misunderstood (where a close 2nd would be being taken for granted, or, as Duc might say, "being taken for granite", which actually happened one time, but it involved mushrooms, a Rubik's Cube and a dwarf with a short memory [but that's for another time]).

So, yeah, my feelings are hurt. But ultimately I think I can divert some of that pity away from myself over towards their direction. It's probably a lot more appropriate. And if I haven't said it in awhile: Thank goodness for you people. (You know who you are.)

Anyways, so ends yet another chapter of my online life. You're dead to me kos. Dead. To. Me.

P.S. I wonder if it will stay. Now unless you've been living in a cave making videos with Osama bin Laden for the last year and a half, it should come as no shock to you that I'm my own biggest fan. Deal with it. But if you think about the contents of that diary, it's not a bad contribution to a site that prides itself on diversity. It's actually something that I'm quite proud of, in spite of the fact that we're really not supposed to be investing that much time and effort on, or genuine affection for, a medium that consists solely of faceless pixelators. Not me. I'll continue to take Fritz's approach, whether I have a life or not.

I just hope that Geoff and Adam, and Slate at large for that matter, are paying at least a little attention. Best bring a bib; things could get messy.
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On tap:

"Privacy Fences: Literal and Figurative"
-I was right: as soon as I finished the first posthole, my mood swung, while not perhaps 180 degrees, at least 90 degrees.

"Finally Watched Dazed and Confused"
-Great movie.

"Lucky Number Slevin"
-Tries too hard to be a perfect cross between Get Shorty and The Usual Suspects

"That's One Crazy Chink!"
-Some Final Thoughts on Kim Jung Il and "The Bomb"

something something something…

A repost of "Jesus' Disciples* Were Idiotic Retards" in Faith Based
-A test of sorts.
-I'll have to do it from memory because it got flushed in an MBTU wipe and I didn't save it.
-*For bright, so it's technically more accurate.

And, of course, "Frayge6:TheOuterSanctum-Barely Illegal"
-Shut up. I've recycled a title that I liked. Big deal.
-I (it) will be unmerciful, uncorked and unforgiving.