I think GE should do that for real. It would be hillarious.

Do what for real?

BTW this was a separate file from the twitter thing emailed to ENM IIRC

Excellent idea. But I think E*** D****** R****** is already on top of that. I was wondering how he gets on so many different discussion fora simultaneously.

BTW, I think your comments are insulting to World of Warcraft addicts. They are far less dedicated, and the object of their obsession is far more meaningful.

Just to rant a little myself, since I’m getting over a cold and am in a crabby mood this weekend… does anyone else on IPR actually have a real job? From the perspective of a part-time viewer who pops in from time to time, it comes across less like a political blog and more like a World of Warcraft style MMORPG. It’s the sort of thing that you either devote your life to, or don’t play at all, with no middle ground. There’s seldom any big picture overview… the posts and comments are so “insider” that if you aren’t reading every 15 minutes, while simultaneously following a dozen other blogs, you’ll have zero idea what anyone is talking about.

I know that some hardcore World of Warcraft addicts have actually started outsourcing their gameplay, so that Chinese players will “level up” their characters while they’re sleeping. I’m thinking about paying some Malaysian kids 50 cents a day to log in with my account, write briefs on all the threads, and post the word “statist” a dozen times in each thread… so I can feel like part of it again.

That makes the Barr Campaign totally worthless for our party.*

Paragraph 1:

Following the nomination of Bob Barr, the media focused [sic] immediately switched from the LP to Barr. This, of course, was expected given the caliber of Barr’s candidacy that makes him a major player in the upcoming election.

Paragraph 5:

As I said before, the media has turned its attention from the LP-proper to the Barr campaign, so most of the media focus from our end has been in promoting Bob.

I’m also willing to wager a $100 donation to the LP with Angela that everyone else in the room besides her heard the quote above the way I heard it. So all she needs to produce is one other person in the room who agrees with her recollection of the statement and she can credit her Give or Get with $100 from me. Or a $100 donation to anti-war.com. Whichever.

I stand by my statement.

As I said, I wasn’t trying to criticize Angela here. I recognize that anyone typing as fast as people speak will make the occasional mistake. And the costs of making such mistakes are more than exceeded by the benefits of quicker reporting.

Angela seems to agree with me here:

It is goddamn clear that it is merely me typing as quickly as I can. I have no lock on the truth. I said that several times. Get over it. There are 20 other people who have their versions. I am merely one. I speak for me and only me.

But not correcting an error once discovered is another matter entirely. It’s easy enough to criticize the Barr campaign with objective facts (e.g., Bob Barr’s brochures — as pointed out by David Nolan), so why harp on things like this that aren’t objective facts?