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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I’ve been getting pretty cynical lately. I don’t expect a lot of real progressive politics from Dems, but I’m stunned at how completely worthless they have been. I agree with you that we need to support progressive voices in the party, but if we do that as much as we can and four or five election cycles down the road we are still the “red-headed stepchildren” of the party, what then?
I just get the feeling that most of these creeps in office (and the establishment press) would just as soon have us evaporate.
Sooner or later it becomes a question of power: How do we make it more uncomfortable for people to ignore us than it is to deal with us? Because I think that is what it’s going to take.
Washington Post editorial board decides to drink the kool aid:
Nevermind what the Columbia Journalism Review has said:
http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/get_the_facts_straight_on_iran.php
I know that the difference between an “editorial” and an “articles” is that the editors are allowed to express personal opinions – but that’s not supposed to be a license to blantantly lie and mislead.
I think perhaps you just had a “Colber/Repor” moment. I think it highly likely that your subtle humor was a bit over the staffers head…Oh my!
now Brendan has my kind of a sense of humor!
Just think- Population control! What a great Idea!!!!!
Go Brendan!!!!!!!!!!
Are you sure you want to identify with Brendan’s sense of humor?
way to take things out of context.
regular readers KNOW my loathing for “For Better or For Worse”. And my sense of humor is excellent.
it has to be, I’m a progressive.
But what does FOOB stand for?
In a now legendary For better or For Worse strip, Lynn Johnston made a really awkward attempt to adapt “teenage slang” into the strip through the character of April, the youngest child in the strip and who Johnston created when she wanted another kid in real life but could no longer conceive.
“Foob” is a combination of “fool” and “boob”: I have never heard a teenager use this term. Another term Lynn introduced was “going roadside”, which means “going all the way”. And once you’re roadside, once you’re a gig, once you’ve been there, there ain’t no coming back.
And so in the weird sector of the internets where “for better or for worse” fanatics reside, “foob” has become shorthand for Lynn Johnston’s Canadian dystopia.
Aren’t you sorry you asked?
and foor festish?
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Hello
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Signed,