semi-freakout, semi-meltdown mode ... and this differs from his usual frothing ignorant ravings how?

War, what is it good for?

Uh, let's see....

Freeing a new nation from imperialist oppression.

Uhhhh....

Freeing slaves.

Ummm....

Liberating Europe....twice.

....thus stopping the Holocaust.

Freeing a small nation invaded by a larger neighbor.

Any more inane questions?

Hey Monkeybrains...

Which one of those Wars has anything at all to do with Iraq?

Only a mornonic wrongwonger would attack my cutesy headline [ever hear of Edwin Starr?], as though it had anything to do with the substance of my argument.

"Wrongwonger"? I think that Hesiod meant "wrongwinger." Still an inappropriate and cheap ad hominem attack, but at the very least, it could be spelled correctly, could it not?

Incidentally, Hesiod, did you ever hear of respectfully disagreeing with your opponents instead of constantly slinging the same tiring insults at them, and consequently making yourself look childish and petulant? This change of tactics might be helpful, you know.

Just a friendly suggestion old chap.

By no means should Edwin Starr's song "War" be mistaken for the substance of Hesiod's argument. Edwin Starr's song "War" actually exists.

Hesiod is a sh*thead.

Ahh yes- the true voice of the anitwar Left is heard.

So I can expect to see you guys lining up at the recruitment center *when*???

[Fake e-mail address with anonymous coward's obscenity has been deleted.]

BTW, I get a kick out of this "Miller was right, he just got the names wrong" blather. So if I write a story saying "President" Tipsy McStagger is a crazed mass-murdering drug abuser, and when I'm called on it, I say "oh, sorry, I meant Charles Manson," all of you guys would be standing up in my defense... right???

Of course, I'd be left to deal with the slander suit Manson would file on my own...

[Fake e-mail address with anonymous coward's obscenity has been deleted.]

no fair!! how come Hesiod gets an anti-Hesiod? why's he so special?

[Highly intelligent, biting criticism that made chickenbloggers look like idiots has been deleted].

Once again, Hesiod does a fine job of showing what a flaming ass he is.

I really get a good laugh when Mr. Anonymous, "I won't have comments on my blog" does this stuff. It really sheds light on what a petulant little creep he is.

He's done something no other person could do: He makes the rhetoric of Ann Coulter seem almost statesman-like.

It's amazing how he went from a what appeared to be a level headed (always wrong of course) liberal blogger to a spittling, incoherent, non-spelling loon. I mean really...when you get to the point where you're posting entries that imply, "I can beat you up", then you've really gone off your rocker.

He's at the point where if you disagree with him, you're a liar, nothing more.

Loser.

A real liberal who opposed war would be profoundly saddened, but respectful of democracy and ready to stand behind our leaders now that the decision has been made.

Wouldn't you think?

I'll be posting a message from a Vietnam veteran on my web site soon that Hesiod may want to read, by the way.

I think maybe "hesiod" was implying that Monkeypants' wong was not right for him. Good luck in locating the correct wong, "hesiod".

The leftists complain that there is no dialog in the war talk. They are right. They refuse to counter arguments with anything more than emotion. They have sortchanged dialog with their childishness. It's distracting at best, infuriating at worst. Hesiod occasionally rises to the lowest level of discussion.

Point of information:

If you replace the name "Buzzcocks" with the name "Blink-182," Miller's story is still not true.

Did Blink-182 yell "fuck Bush"? Apparently, yes.

Did the crowd react in stunned silence, followed by first one here, then one there, a growing crecendo of dramatic boos?

No. No one who was there reports any such thing. Rolling Stone reports no such thing. It was a PUNK ROCK concert, not an Up With People half-time show. The SEX PISTOLS played this gig.

The hard-core punk fans DID boo the Blinketeers, but not for anything they said. They got booed for being "sell-outs" and MTV pop-idols. If they -- or if, say, Green Day -- had taken the stage and shouted "God Bless America and God Bless our president, George W. Bush!" They still would have been booed.

Well -- how exactly is that "not true"? Let's consider the source here: Larry Miller is obviously not knowledgeable about punk bands past or present. His source was apparently a friend who accompanied his daughter to the show -- she was the fan. The father knew it was a show headlining the Buzzcocks from what his daughter told him and probably fliers lying around. Otherwise no doubt all the bands seemed more or less the same obnoxious noise to him. Later, when Blink 182 came on, he heard the "fuck Bush" remark, observed the boos of the crowd, but did not know the reason behind the crowd noise being the "sellout" stuff -- to him the crowd very well could have been booing the anti-Bush remark. Misinterpretation, not lies.

Then again, some of the catcalls could very well have been because of the anti-Bush remark, and the Rolling Stone reporter misinterpreted it, or was standing in the anti-Blink-182's-sellout area, not the pro-Bush (or at least, anti-Blink-182-shooting-off-their-mouths-about-Bush-or-anything) area.

"No one who was there reports any such thing."

And therefore it never happened.

Unless blink-182 cries foul like the Buzzcocks did, there is no reason to believe the boos didn't happen. And there is no reason to fly off the handle screaming "liar." One lefty blogger who shall go nameless already looks like a fool because of that.

Let's see: A comedian who wasn't there says X happened. ALL the bands that were there, the thousands in the crowd, and every reporter who covered the event contradict the story -- which has already appeared in three distinct versions -- yet you want to toss all that and side with the lone ranger's version? Odd.

I wish Mr. Miller and Mr. Burditt the best with the planned sitcom on ABC, but I don't believe a word of what they've said about the K-ROQ festival.

On the whole, I'd say that in this very thread we have proof that the blogging community can achieve standards of reportage and content value every bit as low as those of the paid mainstream professionals. Go Blogistan!