~Republican =/= Democrat

Face reality.

He’s been banned from this site under other names for trolling and for personal attacks on me (and, weirdly, my family). The last time I banned him, it was for posting graphic depictions of sex acts between me and Andrew Sullivan (he seems to be strangely obsessed with Sullivan and Sullivan’s sexuality).

This, by the way…..”It’s my understanding that Balko grew up in a union household and views Republicans as evil…” is just straight fiction.

No one in my family belongs to a union. I grew up in a conservative household, in one of the most conservative counties in one of the most conservative states in the country. I voted straight-ticket Republican for the first three elections in which I could vote.

I’m sure he’ll pop up again. He usually posts a few normal comments under a new name so he gets first-time approval. Then he starts up with the same crap again.

“This site is dedicated to the election of Democrats.” There was no need for you to continue with your one-man idiocy clinic after that one, you had already taken home the gold there.

Maybe it only appears to you that Radley hates Republicans because he focuses primarily on civil liberties concerns and the GOP does everything it can to shit all over civil liberties at every opportunity.

Don’t worry, now that Obama has taken Bush’s spot in the “Let’s crap on the Constitution” porta-potty that is the White House these days, now Radley goes after him instead.

Oh and as far as comment editing? Dude, highly doubt RB would edit them, or filter them. The agitiator hummed along for at least two years with no comments. I get the feeling that the minute the comments consume any signifigant time for RB they will be 86′ed again, as they should be. He has better things to do, like write.

Obama or Wright? ;-)

From what I’ve seen, Balko’s got a pretty light hand on the moderation button. I’ve only ever had one post not posted. Glitches aside, it’s probably because I got a bit too worked up and I was being a complete asshat and said some things specifically to piss people off without really adding anything useful. Exactly what moderation should be used for, imo.

Hopefully Gov. Barbour will read the First Amendment before choosing to waste money on such a lawsuit!

White people are the majority in this country and hold a larger still majority of its political and economic power. When white Americans were last racist in large numbers, we had slavery. We had a civil war. We had lynchings. We had segregation. We had decades of brutality and discrimination. We only emerged just recently from that era–people nearing retirement age today lived through the civil rights movement. The reason Obama gets a “pass” about his former minister is that most people recognizing him as a slightly crackpotty guy, and not a potential harbinger of atrocity.

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It was clearly removed, Radley never contacted me, and it didn’t bother me a whit since I figure it’s his property.

But it does happen on occasion.

I don’t think Radley selectively edits like you’ve suggested. I think it much more likely that it’s an issue with server/client connection and the script used to post comments.

I’ve tried to post things that have not shown up, I’ve copied them to a text file on my desktop and tried to post them a couple of hours later and voila they show up.

No matter how much I try to assert it as fact, apparently not everyone is out to get me.

Could be caught in a spam filter. Over at the balloon juice blog, comments that use the word socialism or its variants get thrown into moderation, because of the part of the word that starts with c and ends with s, which happens to be the name of a pharmaceutical beloved of spammers.

If something similar is the case here, then comments might not appear until Radley has the chance to go through the spam filter and rescue non-spam comments. That could take a while, as he has a life.