Let me be the first to congratulate you, Ace!

Let me be the second. And to also realize that I've been visiting you for months and realized that I hadn't blogrolled you yet...what a dick I am.

Not like you need it, but still....

Keep up the good work. Oh, and more D&D.

Ace--like Vorpal to Willis.

Just keep up the funny and your blog money will grow.

Umm. Does this mean we have to re-up our PayPal subscriptions? I paid twice so I figured that'd be good for a couple of years of funny at least.

Seriously, blog when you like it. When you're doing it out of obligation it's like you're whoring (and it shows...). Drift in and out as the funny leads you.

I'm in now what you might call a stall -- sort of stuck at 10th to 12th level

Heya Ace,just two or three more years and your blog's age will equal that of the public which truly appreciates your type of humor!

"[I]t was like drawing the King of Diamonds from The Deck of Many Things and getting a kick-ass warhorse who responds to my psychic commands."

This is why I come here. You put things in terms I understand at a visceral level.

Congrats.

Unrelated: I just sold a screenplay!

Congrats Ace. In just one year you have made Ace Of Spades recipient of "my favorite blog" award.
How's that for a crappy prize?

ACE Die after Rathergate? Did Mr. Blue die before Mr. Orange? Congratulations on a very successful year, you're becoming an institution. After awhile you'll get fat and old and lazy (well, fatter and older and lazier) and you'll start lying (well, you'll start lying more) and you'll insist you're right when you know damn well you're wrong (well, you'll insist you're right when you damn well know you're wrong even more) and you'll ... wait a minute, you HAVE become an institution!

ALL PRAISES TO ALLAH, THE HARD OF HEARING!

Congratulations Ace!

Please don't pull an Allah on us and drop out of sight. Stick around a long time, have bad days, take time off, but keep on doin' what you do. Great stuff.

I don't rember how I first stumbled in here, but the Mencken quote made me bookmark the site and the sarky prose kept me coming back.

Off topic: Congrats Bill, always said you were a good writer. And Ace, time to update your Allah link (he's back at blogspot now).

Yeah...yeah...that's great and all, but could you add me to your friggin' blogroll already? Share the potential to make some crazy blog money to the rest of us! Share the LOVE!

Uh, sorry about that. My inner socialist got loose for a second.

Congratulations, Ace. If I could, I'd buy you a beer to celebrate. I guess we'll just have to wait until the Annual Meeting of Right Wing Bloggers. When is Rove going to send out those invitations already?

False alarm on the screenplay, I was just fucking with Ace. He's got jealousy issues. And he's trying to sell a screenplay.

Congrats on one year, Ace.

Bill, you are an evil bastard. Funny, though.

That counts for something.

Rightie troll posts rarely come with reason or factual support. Usually rightie troll posts are nothing but gratuitous insult.

If you spend time cruising both sides of the blogosphere, IMO there is a marked difference in overall tone between right and left. But generally, leftie bloggers post about current events and explain (with reason and factual support) what the blogger likes or does not like about said events. And generally, rightie bloggers just spew out hate.

The bald truth is that to be a Bush supporter means that you are (a) ignorant of what's going on; (b) suffering massive cognitive dissonance; or (c) are a soulless sociopathic bastard.

Read more here:
http://www.mahablog.com/2004.12.19_arch.html#1103813337996

Okay, Anonymous Wussy Boy, I'll take the bait. Not because your comments are especially insightful (they're not), but because I'm suffering from writer's block at work and need something to do.

It wasn't right-wing bloggers that made the following statement:

I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

If you were more than a traffic-seeking troll who posts insipid nonsense masquerating as "speaking truth to power," you would know that bloggers on the right deal with policy and politics all the time.

Viewed through the warped little lens of liberalism, though, any disagreement with Dem orthdoxy is considered "hate speech." Rather than deal with the arguments we make against your ideology, you call us names and project your own issues onto those you despise.

Go back to the fever swamps, troll, and let the adults talk.

Thus spake the castrato:

"Usually rightie troll posts are nothing but gratuitous insult [sic]"

"to be a Bush supporter means that you are (a) ignorant of what's going on; (b) suffering massive cognitive dissonance; or (c) are a soulless sociopathic bastard."

I hope you won't think this gratuitous, but... Go fuck yourself.

Yeah, die you fucking Leftie turd! I don't need no facts and information, I got Rush to tell me what to think! Mega Dittos

Sheesh, a year and the quality of the trolls is still pitiful.

How long are they going to bang that 'cognitive dissonance' drum anyway?

A couple communist professors write an essay containing that phrase, and all the little trolls parrot it endlessly (though I doubt that too many of them understand it).

And while I'm at it, just what the hell is wrong with being a soulless sociopathic bastard, anyway? Fellow SSBs, unite!

Yep, apparently soulless sociopathic bastards outnumber Kerry voters by about 4 million.

Who knew? *shrugs*

True. Think there are enough of us to form a special interest group with Ace as our Fearless Leader?

Wussy-Liberal-Weenie writes in that same tired, pseudo-academic style where the use of a phrase like cognitive dissonance passes for something meaningful and insightful when neither are present. Weenie still believes that a little academic-sounding jargon combined with a lot of words imparts analysis, depth, and meaning, when they do no such thing unless there is analysis, depth and meaning. When wading through all tiresome Liberal pedantry, one quickly finds false assumptions, a complete inability to weight and seperate major facts and major issues from minor facts and minor issues, uncredible sources, and conclusions that can't be drawn from the arguments presented but are based upon the speakers wishes were true and outright lying. In short, a lack of critical thinking ability exists in all Liberals. Yet they continue to blow because it appeals to the one bodily function they do excel at besides passing Liberal Gas: Feelings. Their words are mere justifications for their "feelings" which keeps them untrustworthy, treacherous, amoral children.

I'd say we are already the largest special interest group the world has ever seen, and we already elected him.

Do you think the lefties are ever ashamed of their ethical bankruptcy? Example above; some lame-ass troll makes a visit to a blog that holds no common cause with theirs simply to drop a turd in the hopes it will drum up some traffic for them!

BrewFan-

No, I don't. The post-Clinton Left no longer has the capacity for shame.

When a troll craps on the rug, you don't ask why, or wonder about its morals. You just swack it with a rolled up newspaper and get on with your day.

Criminy. I've just been in the mind of a moron. Has anyone actually visited the blog referenced in the troll post above? Here is an example of the type of writing:

But if you keep reading, it becomes clear that what really bit his royal butt is the fact that our most recent actual President, Bill Clinton, talked about the tsunami disaster during a BBC interview and had the nerve to offer an opinion about it -- apparently, that it was real awful -- while His Brattiness in Texas was blowing it off. And the the Court of Bush II was royally pissed.

President Bush has shamed our nation by pledging only $15 million for disaster aid. His upcoming coronation is expected to cost more than twice that. So, as want and disease and famine and grief spread over much of the earth, the Boy King will be whooping it up in grandly austentatious style. A statesman, a person with any class at all, would be scaling back the pomp and re-directing some of the inauguration money to Asia.

The absolute best part of visiting the blog? A graphic on the right of the page proclaims it a "troll-free zone." Heh.

Here's something pathetic - the MahaBlogger has left the exact same message at Wizbang.

Of course, I don't know what's actually more pathetic - what I just mentioned or that I'm bored enough to spend that much time in blog comments.

Still "kinda" funny? Try again: Year's top 50 humor posts, all categories, all blogs.

lauraw: What a great post! Just swack the troll with a rolled up newspaper and get on with your day. Good idea, I tried it at first but fell into the Troll Resentment Trap, guess I'll have to work the Twelve Steps of Troll Recovery over again.

Happy anniversary! Keep up the good work!
rich g

Happy New Year Ace