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Why Dean Sucks

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Steve Edge:
Dean dosn't suck. Dean rocks!
7.8.2004 5:58pm
Phil Massey (www):
I know! Is it because you are thirsty and the drinks all have straws in them? Did I get it right? If so, what do I win?
7.8.2004 6:06pm
j.d. (mail) (www):
You don't suck.

I read the site of the person(s) to whom you were referring in a most unkind light, and I say that they never deserved your kindness to begin with.

Some people just hate Bush so much that it colors every aspect of their existence, and I don't understand it.

I can understand not voting for him, I can understand being opposed to his policies and initiatives - I oppose some of them myself. But some believe that if you support even one thing in common with Bush, then you are a fascist right-wing freak who steals elections and hates minorities.

Who can even speak to people like that? Why would you want to, no matter your affiliation (or lack thereof, in my case)?

Any other charges - like the "faux intellectual" charge - are not worth answering.

As one of their own put it so eloquently, "Screw them." You've nothing to hang your head about. If this person is mad at you, you're doing something right.
7.8.2004 6:07pm
IB Bill (mail) (www):
What is going on today? You are on a tear ...
7.8.2004 6:09pm
Dean Esmay (www):
Yes I am.

I'm just sort of in an "I hate Nazis, Communists, and other totalitarians" mood.

It's annoying isn't it?
7.8.2004 6:11pm
Mrs. du Toit (www):
Coz you like Macs.
7.8.2004 6:11pm
Bill from INDC Journal (mail):
For money?

7.8.2004 6:17pm
Bill from INDC Journal (mail):
Ok, I just read the "I Have Noticed Something Lately" post, and you most definitely DO NOT SUCK. You rock, R-O-C-K, rock.
7.8.2004 6:23pm
Chris Reid (www):
Dean sucks because he tried to use anger and money in order to rally the anti-Bush sect of the USA into voting for him in the Democratic Primaries. YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHGGGGG!
7.8.2004 6:40pm
AngloBaptist (mail) (www):
Dean, your pants are too tight. Perhaps this is both why people say you suck and you are on a tear. Wear loose fitting shorts instead.
7.8.2004 6:47pm
Paul Burgess (www):
Dean, you are known for your intelligence and your gravity.

But there is no gravity: the earth sucks.

Therefore, Dean sucks. :-)
7.8.2004 7:02pm
urthshu (mail) (www):
Trick question. You don't fool me. :-)
7.8.2004 7:23pm
Rosemary Esmay (www):
This too easy...
7.8.2004 7:25pm
Andrew Cory (mail) (www):
Frankly, Dean, I am less than impressed with how often you write/phone your parents. They don’t think you suck for this reason, mind, but they do feel that since they gave you life and all, that you’d want to spend a little more time with them. They’re not asking for much, just a call every now and then. What? You have time to write all these posts but not to drop an Email to your own mother?
7.8.2004 8:49pm
Sean Kinsell (mail) (www):
Because you prefer that academizing, playacting, critic-pleasing shrew Lucinda Williams to the great Emmylou Harris.

Otherwise, you don't suck. I'm a great believer in explaining your political positions passionately but without rancor to the same naysayers multiple times; you just never know when things will click. However, life is short, and there's no reason not to give up on people who are incapable of responding to arguments with anything but blustery insults.

Uh, BTW, Rosemary? Your answer seems to have gotten cut off just at the good part. Just so you know.
7.8.2004 9:36pm
Ara Rubyan (mail) (www):
You don't suck.

Oh wait...

25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?

Play it, Sam.


WTF?

You definitely suck!
7.8.2004 9:45pm
Katherine Kelso Scott (mail):
As a man thinketh...

7.8.2004 9:47pm
Robert Modean (mail):
Lord this is too easy - you suck because you got the Queen man. In fact, because you happen to have Rosemary you really ought to change your name to "lucky bastard", 'cause you are.

BTW, you've been on fire the last few days, keep up the good work.

7.8.2004 11:47pm
Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):
Dean may have sucked on a Tootsie-Roll Pop when he was a little boy. I did. I once sucked on a Tootsie-Roll Pop in the library. The librarian told me to stop and I did. I didn't know it was against the rules then. I'm glad I never ate a Sloppy Joe in the library. The library is not a good place to eat a Sloppy Joe. Please don't eat a Sloppy Joe in the library, even though that would be a funny joke. ha! ha!
7.9.2004 12:51am
Juliette Ochieng (mail) (www):
Darn it. I was going to say "let's ask Rosemary."
7.9.2004 2:02am
Rhye (www):
Because he ate Rosemary's Ben &Jerry's Brownie Batter Ice Cream!!!!
7.9.2004 2:24am
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