you have done some great work. drop by from time to time. I understand that sometimes one's mental health requires a break.

... my mental health has had a break.

But I'm doing fine. I just had higher hopes for this primary and this blogosphere. I guess hope just wasn't much of a plan.

Thank you much for all your great posts and comments!

Best,
VL

maybe.

Now...

with this whole 'remake the party in our carefully crafted faux image' talk...

Shiiiiiiiiiit.

And the nasty race-baiting.

Gravel Baby!!!!!!! With a vote for downticket dems is the most one can expect out of me.

(got local issues here too that I must voice my opposition to)

If Obama gets run over by his own bus...ha ha ha.

Told you so!

According to everything I've been told...

the Unity Pony is most powerful and can accomplish many things WITHOUT me.

pop in when you can, vast...your posts always rocked...

: >

PLease post once in a while.

to blog with you.

Assuming BO (the headlines write themselves) is nominated for the White House (the headlines write themselves) his campaign will have the shortest honeymoon since Brittany Spears’ first marriage. The VRWC will gnaw and chew, and the self-proclaimed gods of the MSM will go after him full voice as soon as the gavel comes down:

As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:7 (KJV)

He will be neither as bad a candidate as many of his detractors fear nor as wonderful as his supporters project, and the choices for the Left will be both fascinating and painful to watch. We will all of us be forced to defend a flawed lesser evil to deflect a greater one. The Greek playwrights couldn't come up with this stuff.

Take care, as always I look forward to and appreciate your mythological studies, and rest secure in the knowledge that this is a temporary respite. No way will you stay removed from all this fun.

Even Matt Stoller doesn't know what Obama plans, but Ian Welsh knows that there little difference between Obama and Hillary. How do you compare no information with specific information? Of course, Mr. Welsh shouldn't be taken seriously.

Furthermore, the minimal requirements from the candidate listed above (torture, Iran and Alito) represent about 1% of the real requirements we typically have (health care, SSN, support for labor and blue collar workers).

Finally, KOS and Josh are so brainwashed that if Obama asks for their first born, they volunteer the second born too.

Good luck with your old/new endeavor.

but it sure helps.

Don't be a stranger.

" . . . we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . ."- Winston Churchill

To Brian Eno and Harold Budd, I wish I could just let this go like you can.

You're a fine writer and thinker, and come back and share more if you feel like it.

Blogging with you has really been a privilege and a pleasure.

But the candidate wars are wearing us all down, a little at a time, and since none of us is immortal, vaya con Dios, compadre.

I didn't know where that quote came from:

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.
Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.
Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,
nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum
tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,
accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,
atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

And it's a eulogy, come on, man, he's not dead!

We'll miss you, VL, deeply.
Translation

Through many nations and many seas have I come
To carry out these wretched funeral rites, brother,
That at last I may give you this final gift in death
And that I might speak in vain to silent ashes.
Since fortune has borne you, yourself, away from me.
Oh, poor brother, snatched unfairly away from me,
Now, though, even these, which from antiquity and in the custom of our
parents, have been handed down, a gift of sadness in the rites, accept
them, flowing with many brotherly tears, And for eternity, my brother,
hail and farewell.

I had that headline in my mind, and was surprised to find the tagline from Catullus.

And no, not a eulogy, but like a eulogy. At least in my mind.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Seriously, I'm going to miss your wit and excellent writing here. Although now apparently I'm going to have to read a blog about the Bible. Never thought I'd be doing that.

Take care.

The Hillary campaign has asked me to assist in Oregon, and so I will. Who knows, Oregonians aren't that dumb, although they do drive funny :)

I've really enjoyed reading your work, VL. I'm going to miss you. I'll soon be back to my studies, and maybe finish this phd dissertation in time to graduate in August. Woot. No convention for me!

because I got involved in reading the posts here and lost track of time. So, yes, VL, I can understand your desire to pursue your scriptural studies. (And thanks for the link.)

I don't feel as though I've been part of this community long enough to issue invitations but I'm sorry that I won't get to know your voice better.

I, too, have one more hurtle to cross and that's the Kentucky primary and then it's back to the poetry books. I haven't written a line in months.

I agree with your quote from Ian Welsh, but I also think it's impossible to predict exactly what the outcome of all this will be. More forces in play than just the American election after all. The Bush years will have left us with a very different playing field.

If Obama wins and if he is perceived to be mediocre or just human, maybe that will be a good thing for the nation.

And if Hillary loses, I don't think it will be the end of her career.

Anyway, I'm going on too long. This isn't about me.

Will look forward to seeing your signature on a post once in a while.

Thank you for holding fast as long as you did.

Well, at least I know where to find you.

Anyway, I hope you're not giving up political blogging for good. Once President Obama is sworn in, the need for a progressive critique will be greater than ever. If you write it, I'll read it.

...for the rest of us