http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/01/21/unity-in-levity Comments On: Unity in Levity by Dennis Dale en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Lissa's Organ is suffering and, your daughter now has documentary evidence that you are a baffoon.

maybe one day you will write less and say more. stop wasting people's time with nonsense because you want to show people you know a lot of fancy words or watched a lot of old movies. maybe try movie reviews or something--trouble is you probably couldn't handle that either.

Posted by herbie52]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:08:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Lissa]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:58:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rhettro]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:01:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Maverick Biceps]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:44:18 -0800 The Stranger It could've ended there and been a succesful post. So close.
Posted by NotSean]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:01:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Backyard Bombardier]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:01:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:02:47 -0800 The Stranger
Sandiai@26 is also correct.
Posted by Trollspotter]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:42:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:08 -0800 The Stranger
Dude, low grade chronic emotional stress (like thinking the government is illegitimate, or the second Civil War is coming, or everyone's against you/don't understand what's obvious, or the government trains our minds by controlling grammar) can destroy those very cells that allow us to have a firm grip on reality*. I'm looking at this essay from 2008 and it's a lot more coherent than your more recent stuff. A lot.

May I recommend that you stop writing on the internet for a while. Just a little while. And start daily taking some omega fatty acids; they're actually brain-protective. Go for walks. Socialize with your family. Try not to think too much about politics. It's not really worth it if it makes a person sick. Science just found out recently that the reparative abilities of the brain are huge, even into old age, as long as you're not damaging it with stress hormones.

As far as the story: it was nice that you saved the dog from the bunker. I was a little confused how there could be a garden in the bunker. Perhaps a little more of a set up description would help to set the scene. Also, you seem to strongly hate/fear powerful women. Why IS that? Neither Laura nor Michelle were/are anything but graceful wives and first-ladies.
Also, Oh-my-god... (going to avoid the acronyms because neither you nor I like them), Was Cheney or Rove hitting on you?! What is up with THAT?

I just wanted to add that you seem to lump all Sloggers together when you make your hateful, bigoted comments about us. Did you know there are several conservatives here? In fact, any reasonable person is welcome and treated with respect. Also (according to "Where are You Reading Slog" from a few months ago), most Sloggers appear to be from somewhere other than the Northwest, myself included. Also, most of us are middle-aged, (not "kids"), and actually-educated (rather than "pseudo-educated", another term that doesn't make sense). I'll tell you a little something personal: My most favoritistic person in the whole wide world is my ex-marine, gun-toting, Republican father. I respect his politics because he's not a bigot and he's not contemptuous of other people or their lifestyles or politics "unless they're a bad person" as he likes to say.

Contempt. That's what you've conveyed well. The fact that your contempt is wide-reaching and apolitical does not change what it is. Contempt for the world or for large swaths of humanity is bad for you. Just saying.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/stress.htm…
Posted by Sandiai]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:36:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cynic Romantic]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:28:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:21:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:16:43 -0800 The Stranger
Of course, the depth and erudition part...well, I'm afraid that ship has sailed.
Posted by Mike in Olympia]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:13:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by The Audience]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:13:13 -0800 The Stranger
and now, my dear friends, a little bit of genuinely funny writing to cleanse your palate: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/20…

it's a little long, but i PROMISE you, it's worth every moment. :)
Posted by AmyC]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:59:12 -0800 The Stranger Now as some of you may know I have an over developed empathy gland. For example, I once ate an entire apple I didn't really want because it was pointed out to me that it was Fuji apple, and if I didn't eat it, the apple would lose face.
This post is making my empathy gland hurt! It's making me feel bad for him! Like the Fuji apple!
So yes, between that, and the damage my liver has incurred this past week what with all the shots, for purely medical reasons, I will be glad when this is over. As I am sure will be the Daughter Dale. Ow! My gland!

Posted by Lissa]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:51:24 -0800 The Stranger
"One serious note on style--the author should force the reader to work a little, to draw him out--and into the text."

1. Um, no. Read Strunk & White or the Chicago Manual.
2. Even if this were true, you have to draw people in before you 'draw them out'...the following sentence, the first in the piece, is complete garbage.

"The following diary fragments were found by rebel forces of the breakaway American states near the ruins of President George W. Bush’s secret bunker at the close of the Second Civil War in May of 2008."
Posted by ago]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:47:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:44:15 -0800 The Stranger
My hat is off to you, sir.
Posted by NaFun]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:37:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by eladsinned]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:35:06 -0800 The Stranger
On my own blog I would be going back in and editing it compulsively--I usually don't get what I want until I've done something like ten re-writes. Here I have to send in an email--two a day--and it's out of my hands. Thus the cheesy recourse to re-runs of old stuff.
Posted by eladsinned]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:32:22 -0800 The Stranger Filibuster!™ with Dennis Dale.
Posted by Proteus]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:29:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Avtar]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:06 -0800 The Stranger
Google him--I would be proud to be able to do that.
Posted by eladsinned]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:27:48 -0800 The Stranger