Wailing Into The Void

I certainly don’t agree with everything that Dennis Prager writes in this column, but it is absurd to claim that he is in any way, shape or form advocating marital rape, as this Daily Kos diarist does.  There are a lot of nutty diaries started at Daily Kos, but most are mercifully ignored and quickly forgotten by the user community there.  Somehow this “Dennis Prager Endorses Marital Rape” diary has escaped that fate and drawn countless hysterical and brainless comments of approval.

I guess Matt Yglesias’ blog actually isn’t his blog.

Andrew Sullivan links to a fascinating interview  from the late 1980’s between Allen Ginsberg and John Lofton.  Lofton is a former Washington Times columnist and a current crazy right wing blogger.  Here’s a teaser:

LOFTON: Well, that’s certainly what S&M is all about—power.

GINSBERG: And you seem to like that don’t you? Have your sexual fantasies ever involved that kind of power relationship?

LOFTON: No, not to my knowledge, I’m a Christian. So I don’t fantasize.

GINSBERG: Do you ever have sexual fantasies?

LOFTON: No.

GINSBERG: None at all?

LOFTON: No, I said I am a Christian.

GINSBERG: You’ve never had any sexual fantasies!

LOFTON: Before I was a Christian, I had them, absolutely.

GINSBERG: And since you’re a Christian you don’t?

LOFTON: No.

GINSBERG: And when you had them, did they involve any dominance/submission fantasies!

LOFTON: Mine were pretty orthodox heterosexual kinds of fantasies. But there’s no doubt they were bad. And I am so glad that Jesus Christ delivered me from them.

GINSBERG: You have no erotic dreams now, at all, that you remember!

LOFTON: None that don’t feature my wife, no.

GINSBERG: Yeah.

LOFTON: It’s an amazing thing what Jesus can do for a person.

GINSBERG: Uh-huh.

I missed this from a few weeks ago:

After 21 years, and almost 40 million posts (we’ll have to check those numbers, but it’s something like that), we have decided to bring FJM to an end.

Drudge is touting two polls favorable to McCain but Nate is skeptical about their likely voter models.

Trying to sort it out with Yahoo.

So far I haven’t really put enough effort into my blog to make it anything more than a redundant portal to liberal blogs and other items that everyone and their grandmother has already linked to.  I haven’t offered too much in the way of commentary aside from weak snark, partly because I’m lazy, partly because I feel insecure about my ability to provide thoughtful insights, partly because hardly anyone reads this blog, and partly because I know that whatever I write is unlikely to make a speck of difference to anyone or anything.

Still, I keep at it, and maybe the blog is slowly getting better.  I can’t tell.  At worst it serves as a nice little distraction for me and the two or three of you who visit this site every now and then. 

Looks like everything is okay.

It seems like I’m not the only one wondering where he is.  A Kossack has already descended into paranoid rumor mongering.