All The Time, People Ask Me…
By Mitch Berg
…”What do you do to make yourself depressed at the state of humankind?”
Well, that’s fairly simple. I ponder the fact that Joe Biden has a political career, or that the Doors are regarded as rock legends, or that…
…no, I’m sorry. That’s untrue. Nobody asks me what I do to make myself depressed.
They do ask me if I’m going to fisk the latest column explosively-oozing bit of deranged twaddle from Susan Lenfestey.
It’s a distinction without a difference, of course.
But I’m all about duty, when it calls. If indeed Lenfestey needs fisking, I’ll do it.
Still, Jeff Kouba and Learned Foot gave me the best midsummer present of all; they did the job in great style, giving me a column’s respite from slogging through and sharing the woman’s continuing descent into surly, shrieking madness.
I thank you, gentlemen. And I shall step up for the next one, refreshed and ready to do battle.
Where “doing battle” equals “whacking at an advancing manure slick with a hockey stick”.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Just for the record, Mitch, I have to state that the pop-up page you’ve now included with your blog is, in my humble opinion, bad form. I’m all for making a buck off blogging if you can swing it (Lord knows if people actually clicked my Google Ads I’d sing praise to the angels), but a pop-up page? Who do you think you are? Power Line? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a bunch of Red Orbit and Credit Card pop-up pages to close.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Sorry. I’m not thrilled with ’em either. But the client – my new agency, if you will – wanted the popunder.
I’m going to give it a try for a while.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Yeah, yours and Hugh Hewitt’s are kind of annoying. But something I can live with as I don’t pay to access your sites anyway.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I have to say – I am in the same boat. Especially at the office, it’s a bloody pain when 4 or 5 of these pop up while I am typing comments (as is happening right now!).
LL
July 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Yeah, I know. I have the same problem, FWIW, occasionally.
I look at that on the one hand…
…and the fact that my daughter might be going to college in two years on the other.
Again – I’m going to see how it works.
Sorry for the inconvenience… :-\
July 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Try using Firefox…no pop ups on this site, and generally very few in my travels across the internet.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
That’s true. I use Firefox at home and have no pop-up problems there. It’s when I’m slacking at work. . .
July 11th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I’m beginning to suspect the popups, combined with your recent blegs, are a thinly veiled form of internet protection racket (ie. pony up the cash, and I’ll make your “troubles” go away).
If that’s your angle, it’s dangerously close to being effective.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I WISH I was that devious.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
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