Comments on The Original Bloggers

Great--now I can't shake the vision of Condolezza Rice as Bush's harem concubine.

But from the looks of things, Hamilton was wrong, and his opponents quite visionary.

Yeah, I could have done without having the mysteries of Bill Clinton's seraglio unveiled. That was icky.

I for one would be supremely happy if internet bickering used such erudite language. Hamilton's sarcasm is certainly consistent with the conventions of the blog commenter, but hesounds wonderfully high-falutin' and Founding Father-y while he's doing it.

Maybe you should declare a special day where all commenting must be conducted in this sort of proper eighteenth-century invective.

I think that "unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio" refers to a handjob in a 100-story tower built near a transit node.

Face it, most straight guys want to do Condi Rice.

Um, no. I like my women with bush, but not Bush.

For those who complain that blogging has degraded public debate into recriminations, counter recriminations, and histrionics

Even more generally, the idea that politics and discourse is "less civil" now than in the past is nonsense. Politics used to be much more vicious and vibrant.

Paul Boller's Presidential Campaigns is just one of the good books that illustrates this.

Ben Franklin was the original blogger. He even has his own "web site".

Will-

I can only speak for myself -"as a straight white guy"- but the whole Waterboarding thing is a major turn off.
God only knows what she is really into.

What, you're not up for a little watersports?