Pajama boy Dan Savage and SJW Eli Sanders should stick to articles concerning gay sex, beauty tips, and other Stranger staples; Politics and current events are way over the the top for this gangly pair of simpletons.

What the hell is "avacado toast"?

@1: You're right, it's absolutely more effective to make weird ad hominem attacks against the people hosting the podcast, than deconstruct their arguments with logic and citations. It was a fantastic use of your single yearly visit to Slog. I'm convinced. In whose front yard are we setting up the cross, and are you going to bring the kerosene, or should I pick some up?

I've listened to several podcasts this morning.

On the Intercept, I heard about the dark implications of this trip overseas. On Blabbermouth, I heard about how ridiculous Trump looks. On Democracy Now!, I heard Tariq Ali talk about how everyone is trying to manipulate Trump to their own advantage (the Palestinians, the Israelis. the Saudis, etc). I'm sure the next podcast of the Bugle will feature a series of fart jokes directed at all the above parties by the time I get around to listening to it.

This is pretty much what I listen to podcasts for. I gave up on watching TV news or reading newspapers in 2001, when everyone said you'd have to be a traitor to oppose the Iraq Invasion. Its very hard to take journalism seriously anymore, with vapid reporters throwing softball questions in front of CGI backgrounds, their biases so blatant now that any paens to 'objectivity' ring hollow.

I'd rather hear Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald tell me a horror story, Amy Goodman interview people who would never get on CNN, Dan and Eli tell me about Melania and the Pope both smacking Trump's hands away, and Andy Saltzman informing me of how often the President passes gas in public. If that sounds at all ridiculous, is it any less so than believing anything that Brian Williams has to say? Am I suposed to think Rachel Maddow or Glenn Beck are serious people when they throws their fists in the air and scream at a camera?

Or should I trust the Grey Lady after she insisted there were WMD in Iraq? WaPo, which fawns over George W Bush? The Seattle Times, which used to fawn over Mark Sidran and still thinks Tim's the apple of their Eyman?

Give me Rania Khalek and the Jacobin, Robert Scheer and Rich Smith. I may not always agree with you, but I trust you a hell of a lot more than I do the 'respected journalists'.

#2 Using ad hominem attacks to criticize ad hominem attacks, ironic, eh?
Your hypocrisy is representative of why liberals are losers and losing. By the way dic*#lips, I'm hispanic,
not all conservatives are your little bubble stereotype.

#3 Amen to that

So yeah it would be great if you didn't have that incessantly giggling girl on again. Thanks.

@4: You can say "dicklips" here without censoring yourself here. It's fine. The Stranger is a bastion of free speech. I know they might not allow such persuasive phrasing on Breitbart or FoxNews or RedState, but The Stranger doesn't care. Use all the homophobic slurs you like, it definitely won't reinforce any stereotypes about conservatives, or Hispanics.

But since you are extending your 2017 visit beyond a single condescending remark (joy of joys), could you explain what a "pajama boy" is? You seem really familiar with the term, intimate enough even to use it as an invective, so could you break down what that means for me? Is it like a Tub Girl?

By the way, I'm a dog. Now who's bubble stereotyping?

Thanks Dan for clearly showing Eli that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an unhelpful way of looking at the world. I would add, re the Wahhabi's that they are just as anti-semitic* and Islamophobic**, if not more so, as Bannon.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemiti… -
"Saudi textbooks vilify Jews (and Christians and non-Wahabi Muslims): according to 21 May 2006 issue of The Washington Post, Saudi textbooks claimed by them to have been sanitized of antisemitism still call Jews apes (and Christians swine); demand that students avoid and not befriend Jews; claim that Jews worship the devil; and encourage Muslims to engage in Jihad to vanquish Jews.[10]

The Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House analyzed a set of Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks in Islamic studies courses for elementary and secondary school students. The researchers found statements promoting hatred of Christians, Jews, "polytheists" and other "unbelievers," including non-Wahabi Muslims. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was taught as historical fact. The texts described Jews and Christians as enemies of Muslim believers and the clash between them as an ongoing fight that will end in victory over the Jews. Jews were blamed for virtually all the "subversion" and wars of the modern world."

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism#…