I Have the Feeling

by Little Miss Attila on January 1, 2010

. . . that Glenn Reynolds is very slightly irritated at Andrew Sullivan over the latter’s vanity-blogging on the subject of torture. “No, Andrew: It’s that you’re a preening, hectoring, self-centered, unpersuasive bad writer. That was my point . . . ”

I can pretty much die happy, right this minute.

UPDATE: Here is the post at Insty’s place that began this particular chapter in the Reynolds-Sullivan dialogue on torture policies.

Tagged as: Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, enhanced interrogation, Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, interrogation, The Atlantic, torture, waterboarding

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pounce January 1, 2010 at 6:01 pm: Oh dear,

Looks like the collapse of Pajamas Media has made Instacracker a little grumpy.

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vanderleun January 1, 2010 at 6:38 pm: How little the pounce the flounce actually knows about that situation is embedded in ever syllable.

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ponce January 1, 2010 at 7:25 pm: Um,

Pajamas media stiffed all it’s bloggers and now is laughably trying to get people to pay more than their internet service costs just to watch people like Instacracker and his wife ramble on about things like robot sex.

What more is there to say?

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Little Miss Attila January 1, 2010 at 7:35 pm: Well, fine. Of course, 1) PJTV hasn’t asked me for any money at all, ever, and 2) Reynolds is a full-time law professor who also earns money from book royalties and the sale of his articles. So if he was getting any dough from PJ Media, I doubt it represented a significant portion of his income.

There are moments, Ponce, when I feel as if you sometimes play the “so-and-so used to blog for PJM; ha!” card. And that card is a three of diamonds, all on its lonesome.

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Charlie Martin January 1, 2010 at 8:15 pm: “Collapse of Pajamas Media”?

Uh, I don’t think so, poopsie.

Now, a year ago PJ stopped trying to compete with Google AdWords. But they’re still around, still a paying market, and still doing between 6 and 10 new articles a day.

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Charlie Martin January 1, 2010 at 8:16 pm: I’m guessing that pounce is actually Andrew.

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Charlie Martin January 1, 2010 at 8:21 pm: It’d help if Jeff weren’t such a damned drama queen. I mean, jesus, grow up: PJM started with the advertising model. It was a startup company. After most of a year, it figured out that it couldn’t sell ads and compete with Google. So it stopped. Jeff got 3 months notice, just like the rest of them, and just like the contract said they could. (I know, I was looking at the contract about the time PJM bailed.) Jeff was pissed that PJM wasn’t gonna make him rich.

Well, that’s life.

Oh, and as far as “used to blog for PJ” — looked at Glenn’s URL recently?

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Little Miss Attila January 1, 2010 at 8:30 pm: It was very hard on those who didn’t have supplementary sources of income, but most of them found other ways to generate revenue.

Jeff can certainly be very sensitive. Of course, he’s not the only sensitive blogger out there. Nor the only one who was living on a shoestring last year.

But Glenn . . .? I wouldn’t be surprised if Glenn waived the fees to be part of the old PJM network; he certainly didn’t need the dough.

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Joe January 1, 2010 at 8:42 pm: Take this quote by Reynolds:

I’m against torture. I’m also against moralistic, dishonest, self-righteous preening about torture. Andrew is a repeat offender in the latter category, and it’s gone beyond embarrassing to pathetic.

I agree with Reynolds 100% on that.

Now, substitute “racism” for torture and your choice of Charles Johnson or Patterico for Andrew and doesn’t the quote still work perfectly? There is a reason Glenn Reynolds is the Blogfather!

This troika of troublemaking troubadors (Sully-CJ-Patterico) truly deserve to be stranded on some desert island (without an internet connection).

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Kilgore Trout January 1, 2010 at 9:06 pm: Robert Stacy McCain up to no good again!

But that is nothing compared to This!. You right wingers have clearly gone too far!

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Kilgore Trout January 1, 2010 at 9:13 pm: Perhaps Charles, Andrew and Patterico can address anti semitism from the left?

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Little Miss Attila January 1, 2010 at 9:17 pm: Okay; knock it off with the sock-puppeting. Not all of my readers are going to be hip to the fact that 1) Kilgore Trout is a Charles Johnson lackey, and 2) these are fake comments, not by Kilgore Trout at all.

I know it’s always funny when people do that, but let’s leave that kind of hijinks to the cool kids’ comment sections. I want my comments to be strictly internet-dweeb-friendly.

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Little Miss Attila January 1, 2010 at 9:22 pm: Not that it wasn’t funny, yo . . . 😉

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Joe January 2, 2010 at 12:39 am: As well noted, Kilgore Trout has a high karmic debt when it comes to sock puppetry

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Little Miss Attila January 2, 2010 at 1:00 am: I know; I’d heard about that incident. My concern is simply the fact that I have a handful of readers who may only have one foot in the blogosphere, and I want them to be able to follow my comment threads.

I just want to keep the threads here manageable, so they can be understood somewhat by those who aren’t “in the know.”

Sorry! Like I said, it was totally funny ‘n’ all.

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McGehee January 2, 2010 at 8:20 am: How did Jeff’s name come up in this thread?

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Joe January 2, 2010 at 9:02 am: McGehee–You will have to ask Ponce about that. He raised it at the get.

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Joe January 2, 2010 at 9:08 am: Interesting that Patterico is now all upset that Charles Johnson banned him from LGF.

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Joe January 2, 2010 at 11:29 am: As usual Jeff cuts through the nonsense:

.19 Comment by Joe on 1/2 @ 11:53 am #

Meanwhile the various outrage [CJ] clowns [Sullivan] are trying to out due one another on who is the least racist [Patterico].

Comment by Jeff G. on 1/2 @ 12:10 pm #

@19:

See, dicentra?

The movements, they are so transparent. Next time somebody tries to point out that a certain somebody is behaving like another certain somebody, that first somebody will argue that such is NOT POSSIBLE, given that the second somebody banned the first somebody.

And a bunch of commenters will pretend the argument has merit.

– while taking care not to let the Emperor’s balls slap them on the nose.

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Charlie Martin January 2, 2010 at 4:23 pm: Actually, I think I mentioned Jeff first. And yeah, I understand, but then I’ve worked for a lot of startup companies. I’ve been laid off from startup companies with a helluva lot less than 3 months notice. Bummer, but it’s not a sign that the Entire World Hates Me I’d Best Go Home, Eat Worms, and Die.

Read it as “a reminder of the transient nature of conditioned existence” or just as “every freelancer needs to learn they need more than one income stream”.

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