Well, I certainly learned something from sciencedaily, thanks Charles!

This is the best journalistic "fuck you" I've read in a while.

Haters gon' hate.

I'll tell you what's tasteless: excessive self-regard.

I loves me some Mudede.

You tell those bastards.

Chuckles, I used to be one of your biggest haters, and then we exchanged a few e-mails and I understood that you're just playing with the marks, much like my friend Glenn Beck. Nothing wrong with that. Go for it.

I'll co-sign: loves me some Mudede.

You are a man of learning and taste, and probably the most interesting writer at the Stranger. The haters can take a walk.

I loves me some Mudede too! And now that I know he is jus' fucking with people over on lineout, I feel that much better about it.

i guess if you like being fucked with.

Chuckles (I call him that too 5280) has moments of pure brilliance, and moments that require an out loud WTF?

The good stuff outweighs the random marxist slog post that makes no sense. That article about the train tunnel bought him about 20 shitty slog posts IMO.

I hated Mudede, but that was when I had no clue what he was saying. Now I (kind of) understand (sometimes), and he's alright.

I also love Charles.

@13: I think the nonsensical stuff is just Charles having a giraffe at our expense and seeing what shakes out. I can't tell if he's serious about 'marxism' or just really taking the piss.

Charles, why do you mess with us?

Just because you didn't yield to the temptation to wax poetically on the marxist dialectic ramifications of space tomatoes in a post modern society this one time doesn't make you any less annoying.

Except you can't rule out potatoes or tomatoes because you don't know if they were tested.

Nope, still don't like your posts.

If Mudede wants to be a professional troll, maybe he should go work for the worthless dickheads at SomethingAwful instead.

Realy though, what is it that separates the mind of the 19th century from all others before it?

I love what you're doing here. Thoughtful out here in the net, or anywhere else for that matter, is seldom beautiful too. Thank you.

I think you can figure it out if you see Police Beat (good film btw, streaming on Netflix right now too). Plus I like the whole point of using a somewhat archaic philosophy like Marxism in modern times. Granted Marx's social analysis and morality is spot on regarding unrestrained capitalism in the 1800s, it isn't really meant to be taken too seriously today as none of the main predictions/prophecies actually came about as he was unable to foresee several twists and turns of what actually occurred in history (or the splits within people who still call themselves Marxists even though they do things like reject the tenet of armed revolution and/or think that political mechanisms are capable of effecting change in the social anything). Luckily it's a vague enough predictive philosophy/pseudo-science, like astrology, to capture the imagination (TEA Party types included), which Mudede does very well, such as his creative application of it to that Cosmos online video game that he aptly saw as a great inversion of a sort of capitalist hero 1-man-army-type games.

Ferreal Mudede? Are YOU a succulent seascape strawberry walking on sunshine rays in the outer reaches of life itself? Are you the darling doll that can never collect dust? Charles Mudede: Shining Star.
Fuck you Mudede!!!!!

So I have this one figured out, you are neither the "tasteless tomatoes, or indeed plain potatoes, you are this: http://www.aikenstandard.com/FeatureColu…
You are that plant everyone looks at and is like wow that is so beautiful it is almost too good to be true, almost just too overdone and good looking but not really. And then you delve in and realize the substance really never existed!

I'm a former hater who was assigned the task of conducting a discourse analysis in order to complete my graduate degree. All of a sudden I've been wanting to have a sit-down with Mudede at a coffee shop. "Please! Explain to me Foucault's subject position of the patient!"

hahaha i'm late to the slog party today but i just wanted to say you're one of my favorite day to day posters charles and i have linked your story about the horse to numerous people saying "this is an amazing read"

haters gotta hate, you know this

It's bizarre to me that people go out of their way to criticize Charles Mudede. They act like he keeps showing up uninvited at their houses or something - for goodness sake, if you don't like his posts/articles, just don't read them. Neither he nor the rest of the Stranger Staff cares about your complaints - go troll it up on YouTube with the rest of the kids if you're really that bored.

On second thought, this is Slog we're talking about. Never mind; as you were.

People fear what they do not understand.

@30 it's hard for me to ignore text, I tend to read any text that crosses my field f vision. So when I skim over Strawberry Mudede's posts, he STILL manages to annoy me because I get the gist of what he's saying. That's why I bitch. I really wish I could just filter his posts out of my Slog experience. You guys could get your pseudo-philosophical nonsense/trolling, and I could enjoy my Mudede-free reading experience. Everyone wins.

Mr. Mudede is a complete asshole, but he is also whatever he does at the stranger and he does it well. But in real life not the stranger, he is a total jerk. I don't hate your posts (But the whole NSFW thing is childish) but I do hate you.

I don't hate Charles because of his sentimental, nostalgic worship of the mid-19th century. Nor do I hate him because of his lack of critical thinking. Nor because he takes his ideas far more seriously than is appropriate for anyone. Nor because he doesn't make any sense. Nor because of his narcissism and willingness to dehumanize people in pursuit of his pet ideologies.

Nor do I hate him because his threatened self-esteem requires him to truly believe there is a connection between himself and these strawberries.

I dot not hate you, Charles.

Yes. A Mudede filter would be awesome. If I could code, I'd hack a Chrome plugin for it.

@35 Yahoo Pipes to the rescue. If you can drag and drop, you can write yourself a little filter that reads the Slog RSS feed, filters out anything where Author contains "Charles Mudede", run the filter to the output, save it, and view as RSS. You end up with something like this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_i…

Subscribe to that in your favorite news reader (I like Google Reader) and you can now have Slog without Mudede's retardation.

@37 AWESOME!

@38 Unfortunately Pipes can't solve everything. It can get rid of Mudede's tripe, but it can't fix Slog's broken-ass HTML. Pro Tip: When you do a blockquote followed by a p, you have to close the p before you close the blockquote.

"strict standard" doesn't sound right to me