Let’s face it, we’re all just over-evolved apes trying to impose form on a meaningless vortex of noise. But some of us are looking at the stars!

This thread is probably dead by now but:

“The only problem with your post Paul Hodgson (#50) is Crikey didn’t hire Scott and William to replace Christian, they hired Bernard Keane, who is rubbish”

Where did I say that Crikey replaced Christian with Scott and William? And contrary to you, I think that Bernard Keane is NOT rubbish. I DO think that Christian Kerr was, is, and will always remain rubbish.

It’s the pointlessness of threads about lipsnigers.

Now how about a chorus of ‘Somalian Pirates We’

…duck?

I still think LP is the world-beater for excellence in conversation

Excellent point. LP’s enduring quality has been the high calibre of the contributors and commenters, and thus their conversation. While I tend to agree with the non-hyperbolic parts of Kerr’s description*, he’s failed miserably in identifying what this blog is about. For mine, it’s not about deep left politics, though perhaps some of the contributors and commenters think so, but about conversation, debate, stoush and lipsnigering over the topics de jour.

Naturally, the content of posts frames the conversations, as do the ideological biases of contributors and commenters, but, in the end, this joint really hums when it attracts the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation. Now, personally, I’m a little disappointed that weighty matters like reality TV and Princess Mary don’t get the attention they used to, but you play the hand you’re dealt.

* Yes, IMO the tone and content of LP has veered even more leftwards and greeenwards over the past 2-3 years. TINNAGT.

I was so sure you’d end that sentence with a ‘C’ and an ‘L’. That you went the Hendo adds to a theory of mine…

Q.: What’s the definition of Irish Alzheimer’s?

A.: It’s when you become so old and feeble that you actually forget one or two of your grudges.

it’s collective memory of past injustices and the consequent grudges borne

[sings]: It waved above our infant might/When all ahead was dark as night/It witnessed many a deed and vow/We mustn’t change its colour now/So raise that scarlet standard high, etc.
Thanks Murph. Though I’m far from best-practice in this regard, my filing system is shit-and-twigs compared to the mighty archives of a decent hater like Gerard Henderson.

Rubbish! International Roast is a Deformed Workers’ Coffee! No more socialist than the Stalinist tin cans it comes in.

There’s some excellent US blog-*posting* (but little good thread conversation) coming from the more analytical right-side of US commentary (though increasingly I hate the left/right vocabulary, which is just no longer accurate): folks like Tom Maguire, Sailer, Patterico, Ace of Spades, Powerline and Baseball Crank are parsecs ahead of their ‘left’ counterparts in terms of baseline sanity (though I differ with each on points), but what’s missing in all the US scene, left or right, is the gentle art of conversation. So much more educational than just spewing your talking points.

I still think LP is the world-beater for excellence in conversation, although sometimes Sailer and Belmont Club threads make a good read for sheer Marat/Sade entertainment value.

Keep up the good work, lasses and laddies, and don’t listen to the sneers of the punditariat.

Now how about a chorus of ‘Somalian Pirates We’?

But, geez, I find the characterization as a member of the “fair-trade, rainforest alliance-certified, decaff and soy brigade” quite insulting.

Of course. You were supposed to feel insulted, and so were the people to whom those terms actually do apply. But I think Kerr is just giving the readership what he thinks they want to hear and never mind the facts. I agree that the really substantial posts here are more often than not those about environment and climate change, but don’t forget that Kerr was and remains an almost hysterical denialist. It’s very unlikely that he reads them.