OK. I've got nothin' tonight. I'm still here at work trying to finish a project, and all I've got is a nostalgic trip down memory lane. So without further bullshit from me, here's an examination of days gone by in Top Comments history.
I. One Year Ago In Top Comments
So, you wanna know what we were talking about one year ago today in Top Comments? Well, let's find out:
Prolific Top Comments diarist va dare wrote the diary for August 22, 2006. It was titled, "Top Comments - Aug. 22 - Another HoTuesday." va dare noted that she was going to stick mostly with highlighting the submitted Top Comments, but that she couldn't "resist dumping some more caca on my state's favored racist, George Allen." Heh. As such, she post this:
va dare posted a fairly large number of Top Comments. Be sure to give them a look, but here is one of my favorite, wherein phriendlyjaime started an amusing string of George Allen-related comments.
The comments had some good exchanges with some familiar faces. Here is CSI Bentonville starting an amusing thread about cats. Here is one that made me stop and reflect, simply because it is from our sorely missed friend station wagon. [An aside, for those who couldn't make it, Markos gave a wonderful tribute to those kossacks who were no longer with us, including station wagon.]
I was also much amused by this exchanged between clonecone and begone. And for some reason, I can't resist highlighting this exchange involving (of all people) noweasels, Elise, Armando, and Miss Devore. Way. Too. Funny.
Please be sure and read them all folks!
A reminder. Please keep sending in those top comment nominations to:
topcomments[at]gmail[dot]com
II. Tonight's Top Comments
Via kath25:
This comment by Eternal Hope should be part of the FAQ, or at least a must-read before any and all blanket Dem-bashing diaries.
Via Light Emitting Pickle:
7November corrects Jerome a Paris' spelling of
ferner.
Via Major Danby:
SteamPunkX has a great line on the Freepers' mixed response to Crazy Mr. Atkinson's Family Security-approved rantings here
Via carolita:
dhonig tells how dinosaurs really became extinct in shockwave's excellent The Rapture is not an exit strategy.
From xxdr zombiexx's Democratic Capitulators now 'regret' the FISA Cave-In:
vigilant meerkat is fed up with the Fainting-Goat Democrats and going to take action. Charge!
cskendrick has a little talk with himself and concludes that the FISA vote proves that many Dems have the same goal as repubs -- the permanent aggrandizement of the Presidency -- because they have all lost faith in representative democracy.
Via ?:
Bob Johnson discusses Carl Levin's grasp on national sovereignty with respect to his comments on Maliki
Via GOTV:
Here's the set-up. And here's the punchline
Via daktech:
BalanceSeeker may have explained why I can’t moderate my outrage anymore. I think my meter has the same problem as his. From this great diary by R o o k.
Via RiaD:
StrangeAnimals had a superb comment in his tip jar
I don’t know why this comment by jessical touched me so, but I cried reading it.
All the comments were great in my first diary that had over 50 comments. This was particularly fine:
Gizmo59 notes that "it's hopeless to try to bring new and different points of view to a closed mind."
Be sure to see Boisiepoet's reply.
Here is, from my diary, the best ever comment ;-)
But I might be a bit biased.
Via sardonyx:
Eddie Haskell gives a pithy delineation of What the current president knows about Viet Nam in mcjoan's front-page diary Embracing Vietnam.
In StrangeAnimal's diary The Land Of No Middle Ground, the thread started by AndyS In Colorado and continued between him and jessical (and later RiaD) was well worth reading.
MichiganGirl's post-midnight rant is truly masterful. She turned it into a diary this afternoon that didn't get nearly enough attention: George Bush thinks he's qualified to give vocabulary lessons?
Top Mojo (thanks so much to sardonyx!!!)
Top Mojo excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments, and C&J comments:
1) What it shows a lack of character by cskendrick — 162
2) If they would just TRY by buhdydharma — 154
3) This is why everyone's screaming for Al Gore by betson08 — 121
4) No, Outrage du jour by Sychotic1 — 94
5) You Don't Get It! by Mr X — 89
6) madness fatigue by anna shane — 87
7) Yep. When they hear the term "Primary" by xxdr zombiexx — 82
8) I like it! by R o o k — 79
9) Thank you by NogodsnomastersMary — 78
10) Everyone except Kucinich...but we're not supposed by darthstar — 67
11) The Repubs won by wooing their base by buhdydharma — 65
12) LMAO by Savage — 63
13) Excellent...and recommended by IndySteve — 63
14) We did it to General Lee by feduphoosier — 61
15) Summary by bluerevolt — 61
16) you're so right by Janosik — 61
17) Or something. by o the umanity — 59
18) Swift Boats Redux... and they win again by Jacob Freeze — 59
19) Thanks Dr. Nestle by OrangeClouds115 — 59
20) While I am ranting, by mjd in florida — 58
21) They should be hearing Taps played by cskendrick — 58
22) Babara Ehrenreich by TomP — 56
23) One lesson really jumped out at me: by Shiborg — 53
24) Two (or three) thoughts by sgoldinger — 53
25) Kucinich speaks the truth! by One Pissed Off Liberal — 53
26) You just made me cry too! by DJShay — 50
27) Don't you know by Jerome a Paris — 49
28) And may I add, I am glad to live in a world with by means are the ends — 47
29) Dems are going to find themselves by FoundingFatherDAR — 47
30) I want one, just ONE by MichiganGirl — 46
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Tips and Recommendations Please. by xxdr zombiexx — 484
2) Tips by R o o k — 390
3) I'm glad by Sean in Motion — 306
4) Tip jar by The Angry Rakkasan — 300
5) here i am! by buhdydharma — 266
6) tips by hekebolos — 228
7) Tip jar by occams hatchet — 216
8) Tip Jar - 22 August by Jerome a Paris — 194
9) tip jar by Marion Nestle — 163
10) What it shows a lack of character by cskendrick — 162
11) If they would just TRY by buhdydharma — 154
12) Tip jar. . .And if you can help out. . . by Jon Soltz — 147
13) It's REAL folks. Updates coming soon.... by Troutfishing — 133
14) Honor the victims by OCMIHOP — 125
15) Tipjar by OneCrankyDom — 125
16) This is why everyone's screaming for Al Gore by betson08 — 121
17) I wish I could be more articulate . . . by nyceve — 118
18) No, Outrage du jour by Sychotic1 — 94
19) Hump Day by khereva — 93
20) You Don't Get It! by Mr X — 89
21) Happy Hump Day! :-) by Common Sense Mainer — 87
22) madness fatigue by anna shane — 87
23) Tip Jar by kath25 — 86
24) Of course comments by one pissed off democrat — 83
25) Yep. When they hear the term "Primary" by xxdr zombiexx — 82
26) I like it! by R o o k — 79
27) Thank you by NogodsnomastersMary — 78
28) Happy Goin Down Under Humpday!!! by Predictor — 77
29) Tips for sanity. by gchaucer2 — 74
30) Everyone except Kucinich...but we're not supposed by darthstar — 67
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be the change we wish to see in this country.
