"Can the GOP Accept the End of Prohibition?"

What else have they got beyond finger waggling, moralistic lecturing, and the assumption that they represent The Truth? Those are critical ingredients in creating the prohibitionist's souffle, which will (to be sure) rise...only to collapse on itself soon thereafter.

Doc comes out of the closet on the DR?
#1 | Posted by markh

Care to explain what you're yammering about? Or are you just going to run away?

Doc comes out of the closet on the DR?
#1 | Posted by markh

Asks "Mark," spelled with an "h."
Say, "Markh," is the "h" silent or pronounced with a petulant sigh?

by Doc -
#5 | Posted by markh

Uh, Markuih, I didn't write the article

"sooo, congrats . . . I guess - -
are u gonna be the alpha or beta?"

You assume I'm homosexual because someone else wrote that? Markuh, that's as stoopid as me assuming you'r hetero. By the way, given your familiarity with such terms of art as "alpha" and "beta," could you tell me what they mean (other than being the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet)?

My mistake, Markuh. The first letter of the old Greek alphabet is indeed alpha. Beta, however, is the second, not the last letter. (Whcih is omega.) I'd hate to have Crispee Palooka or Minmal Effort Joe Blackstone feel the need to throw a hissy fit over that.

"Doc, ya seemed to be pretty enthusiastically cheer-leading an alternate life style with your blog selection(s)."

Really, Markuh? Which ones popped up at you (so to speak)?

Halloween: The Devil's Birthday
Can the GOP Accept the End of Prohibition?
Beinart: Forget the Gubernatorial Elections
Krugman: Health Reform's Defining Moment
Creche Clash: Religious Right's Bogus Persecution Claim
Maria Lionza: A Religion With Something For Everyone!
Gingrich-Beck Spat and GOP's Teabagger v. Big Tenter Rift
Hotel Owner Goes Loco on Spanish Names
Scalia Misquoted on Segregation Decision
Epic Humpback Whale Mating Battle Caught on Film
Historians Dispute Legend of Agincourt
Quindlen: Blame the Founding Fathers
GOP Hasn't Been This Unpopular Since Clinton Impeachment

I'm betting it was the Humpback Whales that got you lathered, Markuh. Yeah, definitely the whales.

By the way, have you ever heard of "projection"? Not in the sense of the job you used to have down at the multiplex, but as used in the disciplie of psychology. You really ought to look into it sometime.

As an addendum...

Memo to Markuh:

Sometimes an article about the problem the GOP has with the Prohibition concept isn't all about homosexuality but about the GOP problem with Prohibition.

A tad sensitive there, aren't you, Markuh?

Markuh, your fascination with my sex life is flattering but, I assure you, you're not my type. I'm hetero.

#13 | Posted by The_Chapel

Just what the DR needs: Another pantaloon-pissing Spelling Nazi.

Nice day here to get out and enjpoy actual fall weather.
#17 | Posted by The_Chapel

...writes our resident Spelling Nazi Punk.

It's fascinating. This is the 21st post on this thread (at least it is as I'm writing it -- another could get in before this is posted). (It's necessary to issue such quaifiers because fastidiots like The Chumpel really do get themselves lathered up over such "lies.")

Of those 21 posts -- on a thread that asks "Can the GOP Accept the End of Prohibition?" -- nearly half come from a the DR's Frick and Frack of stoopid trolls: Markuh and The Chumpel. And what do they post about? Well, The Chumpel outs himself/herself/itself as a silly, simpering Spelling Nazi who can't spell. And Markuh -- poor, poor Markuh-- he/she/it exhibits a passionate interest in the thread poster's sexual preferences.

Only Lipzoidal and I have commented on the actual topic of the thread.

And on that score, I don't see how the GOP can accept the end of prohibition (in the broad sense as used in the essay). Their base is staunchly, irredeemably puritanical and so firmly wedded to zealotry that I just don't see how they can ween themselves from prohibitionism as part of their blinkered world view.

Now, Chumpel, feel free to return to the prosaic pasttime of parsing sentences while Markuh gets oily fantasizing about my sex life.

LOL

are ya trying to convince yourself . . . or others?
#23 | Posted by markh

Not surprisingly, the point of that post eludes you, Markuh. Consider some of your posts on this thread:

"Doc comes out of the closet on the DR?" Clearly you're interested.

"are u gonna be the alpha or beta?" I'm still waiting for your explanation of what that means, since it sounds like some sort of inside-the-beltway, those-who-know talk and I'm not inside-the-beltway and I don't know.

"ya seemed to be pretty enthusiastically cheer-leading an alternate life style." An obvious expression of disappointment that your search for a kindred spirit -- a wood sprite, perhaps? -- went unrewarded.

"pass my apologies along to your 'partner' too," sounds a lot like an expression of resignation with a heavy infusion of jealousy.

Clearly, what you call "the alternate life style" is a source of genuine fascination for you. You toss it out there to get a reaction, prepared to: (A) adopt the yuk-yuk-juss-kiddin, I'm-one-of-the-guys posture to camouflage your real intent (with which you are obviously not comfortable and must make at least some effort to repress); or (B) assume a quite different posture if your thinly-veiled come-hither signals elicit a positive response.

This may seem much ado about nothing, Markuh, but there are professionals out there who can help you work through this. You might want to consider seeking their assistance, if only to be able to live more comfortably inside your own skin.

That said, Markuh, whatever "the alternate life style" may be for you -- and whether you live it or just yearn to do so -- doesn't concern me beyond the abstracted "reality" of the virtual world here on the DR.

Please, get it through your thick skull, Markuh, I'm really not interested. (Although, as a fellow human being, I feel compelled to mechanically declare in a bored voice layered with repressed laughter, "But I am concerned.")

Finally, a word of advice, Markuh: If you stalk in real life as you seek "the alternate life style" the way you do here, trolling for the object of your desire, someone will slap a restraining order on you. Here, you just get laughed at.

Would it please you if I said I did, Markuh?