Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Lynching Post

Deleted. Bah, that got nasty, and it was my own fault -- I violated my own "must be more funny than angry" rule. Blame exhaustion from this first draft and general weirded-outedness at the whole GF thing. We'll return shortyl to writing and pop culture hoo-ha's.

10 comments:

Hadyn said...

Don't beat yourself up dude.

I thought your comments were fair and justified. I tried, but can never get up to your level of intensity (which is often needed).

Keep up the good work, nobody else will.

Anonymous said...

I wish you hadn't deleted it. I was hoping to show this to friends.

david golbitz said...

I hadn't checked out the post all day, I get home, and now it's gone. :( Oh well. I'll just have to wait for the next thing those wacky conservatives in Congress do.

Anonymous said...

John, I think you should have left it up as well -- rarely have I seen anyone deliver such a well-articulated and well-deserved smackdown. In the blogosphere, at least, "He had it coming" is a valid defense.

Curt Purcell said...

I've done this before--ranted, regretted, and deleted. I liked your post, but I can understand why you might have decided it didn't belong on KFM.

DJ said...

A leopard and his spots. I will wait with baited breath until something so wrong makes you want to right it again. Remember it’s not healthy to suppress that stuff and scotch only helps so much.

Anonymous said...

Self censorship makes baby jesus cry.

Ross said...

Just adding my name to the "I enjoyed and was thankful for the post, but I totally understand" list.

Anonymous said...

I caught up to your lynching entry via your xml feed, and read the list. And though a number of the senators on your list have a geographical responsibility to acknowledge and apologize for the lynching problem, I'd like to stick up for the senators from my home state, as dumb and toe-the-party-line as some of their votes have unfortunately been (and despite knowing Enzi personally and closely, I'll still call his ass out any day for his yes vote in the Clinton impeachment), I just wanted to say that Wyoming didn't get statehood until thirty (+/-) years after emancipation, and didn't actually have black residents for, well, a while, and weren't so big on lynching.

Which is not to say that we're not without a history of massacreing a huge group of Chinese railroad workers in the southeast corner of the state, and currently, even counting the (50,000 population) city of Cheyenne and the nearby Air Force bases, we're at something like a 1.5% black population (though, in all fairness, the Latino population is increasing, though I can't vouch for the quality of the jobs they're getting, since we are, after all, a state full of redneck fuckhead, though not nearly as bad as, say, Arkansas), which makes it difficult to connect to the national culpability that anybody with a basic understanding of national history that's not terribly revisionisy should feel.

And. So. There we are. Email address is on the home page, if you have any concerns.

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