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Welcome, BarlowEnemiez! 01/07/2004 02:10 PM

I'm back. Following my last post, I entered the holidaze from which I am only now emerging. There was a lot of perilous driving to do through weather out of a Jack London story; Salt Lake to Pinedale, Wyoming, Pinedale to Jackson and back, back to Salt Lake, all with a snow tunnel swirling in the headlights. Christmas was lovely with my daughters and their mother in Wyoming. Straight out of Norman Rockwell. A detailed portrait of the day would have revealed little of the traditional American dysfunction that lay beneath it, and, indeed, we didn't experience much of it ourselves. I took a couple of days to go skiing with the Barlowettes and then headed to San Francisco for New Year's Eve. New Year's was fabulous. The Dead played like they were more alive than ever - though the audience seemed a bit terminal - and the several Burner parties afterward raged into the full light of 2004. It's taken me a couple of days to repair myself. Meanwhile, something interesting was happening here at the BarlowFriendz Blog. The BushFriendz arrived. The first evidence that my blog was no longer just a cocoon for nattering nabobs like me was the 8th comment in response to "Safire Takes A Shot At Us." A certain Misanthropyst (with the emphasis on the pyst), noted correctly that I was unlikely to convert pro-Bush Republicans like himself with stirring exhortations about how "we can't afford to lose this one," especially since I concluded that outburst with an only slightly tongue-in-cheek prediction of concentration camps during a 2nd Dubya Reign. He thought that was neither funny, nor likely, nor politically effective. I allowed as how he was right about that in comment #13. But then, a day later, there appeared one Ali Karim Bey, a self-styled "Political Analyst and Investigator of Liberal-Hypocrites" in comment #16. He did not seem quite so constructive in his criticism, nor has he been in his prolific commentary since. It was the first fist-full of spaghetti to be thrown in what was soon to become a serious food fight between true believers from both extremes of the political spectrum, as well as the passionately unconvinced, currently running to 126 often lengthy comments. The fracas erupted on December 30, after I was linked by Instapundit, a very popular and "conservative" blog by Glenn Reynolds....

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