This will be my last post at Balloon Juice. I want to thank John for inviting me to write here. It’s been quite a ride. Lately, however, I have begun to find that I am simply spread too thin. I need to spend more time reading and thinking and taking my time. Less arguing, more meditating.
In any case, I’ve learned a lot blogging here and arguing with everyone and having my ideas put to the test. I hope some of you will come continue the conversation elsewhere, either at The League or at American Times or on Twitter.
Cheers.
celticdragonchick
Damn. Sorry to see you go. M_C is going to start bothering me again now… :(
Corner Stone
Good. You can “fuck right off”.
What? Just trying to fit in.
Citizen_X
Hoo boy. Here comes the Hermione Loko-chan Atreides victory dance.
Godspeed, E.D.
Just Some Fuckhead
Well shit. I just got to where I was barely hating you.
trollhattan
Best of luck!
Corner Stone
Seriously EDK. It would behoove other mistakes John Cole has made to hasten your good example.
E.D. Kain
@Corner Stone: Go DIAF.
@Just Some Fuckhead: you can still barely hate me from afar…
@Citizen_X: I know. Such is life.
Just Some Fuckhead
If EDK leaves and then M_C comes back which means Allan leaves again, I’m cool with that. Although I’m having some difficulty remembering which cards trump which cards.
handy
I hardly see what a HOF baseball catcher has anything to do with this.
freelancer
Goddamnit, no!
Oh, well. Your Forbes blog is in my RSS feed, and you better comment here when you can.
John, conjure up your inner Bob Barker and summon the next pseudo-Right Wing blogger convert in-waiting.
The Dangerman
We need a quick replacement; anyone think Trump would write for this m-f’ing blog (and what the hell was up with that Vegas performance; did he hit the Crazy Horse, and hit it hard, before going over to Treasure Island?).
Best to the recently departed.
Benjamin Cisco
Nice title. Enjoyed the writing even if I didn’t always agree with it – rare thing these days.
__
Fair winds and following seas to you.
cmorenc
PLEASE, Kain. Stick around and post every once in awhile, when you get a round tuit, even if some whiles are much “whilier” than others. No need to depart, just cut back your output and give us a gem every now and then when you have time, the better for the additional reading and contemplating your mini-sabbaticals will now permit you to indulge.
soonergrunt
Cue m_c/HGW/GA in 5…4…3…
I never commented much in your threads, E.D., but I always enjoyed them, and I enjoyed watching the beginnings of a conversion. Now, stay in the light, and remember that as the League’s Ombudsman, you have certain responsibilities…
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
Shit – you can’t just let Matoko Ghanima Hermione Five Loko Atreides win. What kind of Harkonnen are you anyway? You really suck at Kanly!
Evolved Deep Southerner
Erik, I always enjoyed your posts and really only disagreed with you vehemently a time or two – you just didn’t know it, because I don’t post all that much, and on a lot of your threads it would have been real hard to get a word in edgewise even if I’d wanted to. I never got the irrational “E.D. Hate” thing I saw coming from commenters whose posts I otherwise enjoyed most of the time. From the context of a lot of those comments, I gathered it was because of discussions that happened elsewhere well before I really had any idea what the fuck a ‘blog’ really was.
Good luck, and I hope John will do the Motel Six thing and leave the light on for you if things change.
Just Some Fuckhead
@E.D. Kain:
No I can’t asshole. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. You think I can stand against the emotional weight of pithy homespun sayings???
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead: I’m watching the NFL draft so maybe we can trade somebody like Allan and eemom for m_c ?
I mean, she has to have way more upside potential than those two, right?
Mandramas
Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!
Nahh, I’m kidding. Good luck, EDK.
fhtagn
Well, at least we’ll always have matoko-chan’s third GBCW rant from a couple of days ago, eh?
Also, when you make it to the big time, punch David Brooks in the nose good and hard, just for me.
JGabriel
Take care, Erik. It’s been good reading you and watching your development as a … well, whatever political alignment you’re labelling yourself as these days. I wouldn’t want to presume.
.
bobbo
Thanks for being a good sport, E.D. We need more like you.
Mary G
Sorry to see you go.
morzer
Good luck, EDK. Keep the mohawk crimson, and all will be well. Just remember, you are a dangerous liberal now.
Mandramas
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people): Theoretically, m_c went GBCW a couple of days ago, as a result of being defeated in a EDK pro coalition (that original sided with her). So, it is more like a pyhrric victory or a technical draw.
Just Some Fuckhead
Let him go people. He’s going to a better place. There’ll be other glibertarians as long as John is still an asshole.
Comrade Luke
Gotta say: you saved your best title for your last post.
Marmot
@Corner Stone: You’ll never be short of new vocab words, at the very least.
E.D. Kain
@cmorenc: we’ll see – maybe when things are less hectic.
@Evolved Deep Southerner: I appreciate that. Thanks!
@Just Some Fuckhead: good point…don’t worry though, you’ll be in good hands…
@fhtagn: oh that, among many others.
JGabriel
@fhtagn:
… and me!
You can probably expect the entire commentariat of Balloon-Juice to approve that message.
.
E.D. Kain
@morzer: oh I change the color from time to time.
@JGabriel: why I’m a left-wing glibertarian now, obviously!
@Comrade Luke: it came to me in a rare moment of inspiration…
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@Mandramas: Mmm hmm. Missed that, but give her a few days.
E.D. Kain
I do promise to return for one last post if it turns out Donald Trump really is a stealth-liberal working to ensure Obama’s re-election.
Violet
It was fun watching your conversion to a DFH. Enjoyed your writing and you were a good sport with a tough crowd here. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Omnes Omnibus
Cheers, if m_c turns out to have been right and you were “head faking,” we will find you and punch you in the neck. Otherwise, fair winds and calm seas to you.
Just Some Fuckhead
Lemme know if Forbes needs a limericist, Kain. *does Barney Fife stretch* I’m thinking about sharing my gift with the world.
dollared
Thanks and so long!
And please don’t punch Steve Forbes in the nose until he realizes what you are up to and fires you.
Then, please do.
Best of luck!
-DE
morzer
@E.D. Kain:
So what color is it now? Can I still call you Erik the Red?
fhtagn
@E.D. Kain:
Couldn’t you stick around and do monthly matoko-repellent posts? Just to help the world to a saner, better place? Please? Pretty please?
Just Some Fuckhead
@E.D. Kain:
You kid but that’s where I tested last time I took the world’s smallest political quiz. Top left corner. I still don’t know what it means.
E.D. Kain
@morzer: it’s a secret.
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m sure I’ll write plenty of stuff that will make you want to punch me in the neck, but not because I’m head-faking.
@fhtagn: I’m quite certain I would only make things crazier…
fhtagn
@E.D. Kain:
Inconceivable!
Just Some Fuckhead
Did you tell John yet, Kain? Because he’s always the last to find out this shit and then he blames me.
handy
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Is that the thing that spits out those weird numbers all the cool kids at GOS put in the signature lines of their posts?
Omnes Omnibus
@E.D. Kain: My only concern with that is that your stalker would be insufferable.
Just Some Fuckhead
@handy:
No. It’s a fundraising gimmick on the NLP website. No matter how you answer, you’re a libertarian and then you’re prompted to send a donation to your like-minded brothers and sisters at NLP HQ.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I eagerly look forward to the “Fuck you all! I loves me some EDK!” post two days from now with either the GWB or Jesus (but I repeat myself myself) showing the middle finger to us all.
bend
Thanks, Erik. Best of luck!
MobiusKlein
We need a new Angry Brunette Libertarian. Any options out there?
edit –
Perhaps Asinine Brunette Libertarian is a better FYEDK post?
Warren Terra
Dammit Kain, if you wanted to go you coulda just faded away, instead of handing m_c a discrete victory like this …
Anyhow, best of luck in your new endeavors. I’ve been fascinated by your evolution while posting here – after truly despising your posts in your first weeks here.
E.D. Kain
@Omnes Omnibus: my apologies in advance.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone:
I may have to GBCW for my own sanity. Of course, I’m not sure who my presence is keeping away and I don’t wanna risk upsetting the ecological balance here…
E.D. Kain
@Warren Terra: I had to say farewell. I’m well aware of the side-effects. Oh well.
Just Some Fuckhead
I think we oughta rassle for the new frontpage spot.
fhtagn
@Warren Terra:
Look at it this way, when the critter comes slinking back, we can always give her conniptions by demanding guest posts by ED Kain, speaking of the golden age of Kain, quoting ED Kain admiringly……
JCJ
Thanks for your writing here. Ask John to link to you once in a while.
Mandramas
EDK, I’m willing to troll you in the League, specially on the #freemarketasaforrest theme.
Fred
Good riddance. One less Republitarian or whatever you are trying to disguise himself as some sort of progressive.
denverjeninpdx
I am really sorry to see you go. To echo a few commenters above-I hope you post here every now and again, when you can. You have inspired some great conversations.
I don’t like only having conversations with people I totally agree with! How can we learn anything that way?
Turgidson
Rather than GBCW, let’s just call this…”smell ya later.”
Catch you on the flipside, dudemeister.
JFitz
See ya E.D. As a Tucsonan, it was breathtaking to watch Flagstaff convert you into a DFH in record time. I’m better informed from having read your writing, and look forward to following you in the future. God Bless
Nicole
Boo! Boo! I do not like this development at all. I’ll miss your posts.
Cat Lady
Go, DFH, and sin no more. Our work here is done.
Kiss the babies. At the end of the day that’s all there is.
The End.
Shadow's Mom
I’ll miss you here, but at least Forbes now lets me comment, so I’ll visit there. And, we can still touch base on Twitter. Very much enjoyed yesterday’s exchange on incrementalism and faux liberals.
Mike in NC
The same could be said of future President Trump, AKA Master of the Universe to our wretched media.
But all joking aside, fair winds and the rest to you…
Splitting Image
Groovy man. Now I’m picturing you with love beads. Peace out.
kdaug
Godspeed, mate. Enjoyed it.
wormtown
Also sorry to see you go. Thank you. Will follow you at The League.
Chris Wolf
Well, that sucks.
Good Luck, E.D.
JPL
The comments are always open!
Jewish Steel
So, morzer “reappears” to bid farewell to EDK. Meanwhile m_c and dougj are no where to be seen.
I’m not connecting any dots here. I’m just throwing that out there.
metricpenny
“Going Galt”. Loves it. Loved reading you here too. All the best to you!
Lurker 2.0
I almost never comment, but always appreciated reading your posts, regardless of my agreement or lack thereof. I will be following you on The League, and wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your insights.
fhtagn
@Jewish Steel:
Huh? Morzer can’t be all three of them, surely?
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
Matoko/Hermione/Whatever went GBCW – I missed that thread. Which one was it?
Bob
E.D., ditto to all the nice words above, and any that come your way below. See you at the same old places.
Omnes Omnibus
@fhtagn: Besides morzer there are only three people who post or comment on this blog.
BGinCHI
E.D., sorry to see you go. I liked what you added to the slaw around here.
Go with Bieber.
fhtagn
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water:
https://balloon-juice.com/2011/04/27/why-obama-waited/#comment-2556466
Jewish Steel
@fhtagn: I think I am permanently scarred by the final episode of St Elsewhere.
freelancer
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am Spartacus.
fhtagn
@Omnes Omnibus:
So that’s you, and me.. and who? Are you secretly me? And who is Jewish Steel? Is he/she/it you? Me? The last of the three?
Am I me?
I should never have read Descartes at an impressionable age. Bloody Cheese-eating Philosophical Surrender Monkey!
jwb
@fhtagn: Especially since rumor is that morzer is Sarah, P & T’s ghostwriter.
JGabriel
@JFitz:
It was US who converted him, goddammit! What’s with giving Flagstaff the credit?
.
fhtagn
@freelancer:
I refuse to be Antoninus.
bystander
Aw, crap. This is a real disappointment. Principles unchallenged and undefended atrophy. As well, common ground allowed to go fallow grows weeds. Yours was a good voice here, and I will miss it. Best wishes E.D.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jwb:
Is morzer old enough to be SP&T?
fhtagn
@bystander:
Fallows grows weed? I knew he was the best of the Atlanticists!
Arundel
Sorry to see you go, E.D. You got a shitstorm here at first (mostly rightly), but your evolution in writing, thinking and tone was really interesting and heartening to read. I respect you as an intelligent writer and reader and wish you the best.
Can you take ABL with you? (And screw-you to the commenter who said last night that my dislike of her writings had to be racism. No, it’s the hectoring righteous bad writing I dislike, as well as stealing her schtick from the blogger Shark-Fu, an AfAmerican lady writer who does it much better, is a better writer. Dismissed.)
Jane2
Thanks for contributing, ED. You added a distinctive voice to the commentary (not to mention some great music suggestions), and I’ll follow you elsewhere…even if just to argue with you!
JGabriel
@jwb: Really, morzer? Huh. I thought it was probably DougJ.
.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead:
He’s boring enough. Case closed.
fhtagn
@jwb:
Rumor? I thought that was someone being a sourpuss and trying to insult two enemies at once. Anyway, not to go all Ayn Rand but…
Who is Morzer?
MikeJ
@fhtagn:
Wow. Somebody actually argued against understanding the world.
jwb
@Just Some Fuckhead: I think it was Corner Stone who made the original conjecture.
Corner Stone
@Arundel:
Huh. She is here TO STAY. TO STAY. Drunk dialing and boring rhetorical quirks aside. TO STAY.
Just Some Fuckhead
@fhtagn:
Morzer was our first Libya warblogger. Went Galt after getting, er.. shot down.
fhtagn
@MikeJ:
Full quotation, please. And a link would be nice. Just sayin’.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jwb:
I dunno. I just thought Morzer was a young kid and SP&T is supposed to be in her 90s.
jwb
@Just Some Fuckhead: And SP&T appeared on list shortly thereafter.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@fhtagn:
I’m guessing that was epic. I’ve been distracted by some health issues and finding funding for the dx and tx thereof and missed that. I’d be most grateful if someone would point me to a thread. In a masochistic sort of way, heh.
Oh, and EDK, all the best and all that, complete with the sailing lingo previously provided above.
freelancer
@MikeJ:
Emcee Granger Weasley Hadrach follows the Abu Hamid Al-ghazali school of thought. How fitting.
jwb
@Just Some Fuckhead: That’s why he’s her ghostwriter or she’s his sockpuppet.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jwb:
Don’t ruin it for me. SP&T makes me laugh. Morzer can suck my dick.
MikeJ
@fhtagn: The quote was from moko loco’s GBCW that you linked to. I linked to your comment that linked to it.
passerby
E.D. Kain, I’ve enjoyed reading what you have to say.
Happy trails to you.
Omnes Omnibus
@fhtagn: You opened the door. And you posted the Kingpin YouTube on the previous thread. You deserve everything that is coming to you.
Mako
So long, funny man.
You always had one thing going for you, you’re prettier than Krauthammer. May you find the sensible conservative journalist position you crave, marry a nice girl and have several wonderful children and live long enough to see them grown.
dogwood
ED: This is disappointing, but I wish you the best of luck.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone:
I like ABL too. I don’t understand you haters. Granted, her friend suck, but she is fresh, funny and never ever boring.
DougJ is the only frontpager that sucks and I only say that because he doesn’t like me so he can DIAMFF.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Here is the nut ‘graph:
so im done here.
I can’t justify posting at a “progressive/liberal” blog where one of the front pagers pimps a racist anti-liberal candidate and hosts a JAFI (just another fucking islamophobe) front pager on his home blog.
fiamannullah
And a link.
fhtagn
@Omnes Omnibus:
So far I’ve concluded that Just Some Fuckhead was unsuccessfully in love with morzer, and took rejection hard, and that the various guesses as to his identity are the stuff of conspiracy theory. At least, that’s what this thread seems to be saying on the topic.
Stranger things happen at sea, I suppose.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@Arundel:
Sing:
She ain’t going nowhere, she ain’t going nowhere
She can’t be stopped now, cause it’s ABL for life
Omnes Omnibus
@fhtagn: Those are thoughts best left unthought.
fhtagn
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gotta call ’em like you see ’em.
Svensker
@morzer:
Good God! A morzer sighting! Only something as drastic as ED leaving could bring you out of your den.
Dolphins draft pick sucked. Heh.
In other news, best of luck, E.D. Keep learning!
licensed to kill time
Adios, EDK.
I liked reading your stuff but since that witchy witchy ma-tik-tok-choo-choo_chan attached itself like a limpet to your every post and sucked the life out of them it became a kind of tedious water torture to get through the threads.
Keep walking the earth, Kain.
jwb
@fhtagn: As I recall, Corner Stone identified some particular writing tick shared by morzer and SP&T. Of course, Corner Stone is on the thread but not commenting on the point, so it’s possible the conjecture has been silently withdrawn based on other evidence.
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead:
H4s. If she would stop with the goddamned H4 headers that, due to a shitty stylesheet here at bj, look exactly like hyperlinks, I would have no problem with her.
Her idiot supporters are another thing, but I don’t blame her for that.
Villago Delenda Est
EDK: Good luck with your future endeavors. It was a very pleasant surprise to see you once relent from the position you took in a front page post, in the comments. I frankly did not expect that. It indicates that you’re not as wedded to the ideology as some people (whistles casually) around here seem to think.
Of course, this means you are no longer of The Body…you are a “liberal”. With all the terrible baggage that entails.
Corner Stone
@jwb:
I did comment on it. They both bore me to tears.
Mandramas
@freelancer: Both are sufis, and sufis have a strange relation with the Reality.
But in a nice form of view, not as the ismailies.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MikeJ: Yeah, I agree with the H4s. I’ll spend 10 minutes trying to open the link before I remember it’s not a link when she posts.
Concerned Citizen
that sucks.
jwb
@MikeJ: The H4 headers and the shitty style sheet are part of the charm of the place. Plus I like to run the cursor up to the H4 header and click just to make sure it’s not a real link. Yes, I need to get a life.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jwb:
You suck worse than Morzer.
Corner Stone
There is just no way Dontay Moch from Nevada ran a 4.31 40 at 248 pounds.
Bullshit.
jwb
@Just Some Fuckhead: “You suck worse than Morzer.”
Undoubtedly.
chopper
given that moko loco stalked ED, then bitched out right before ED decided to leave, i’m starting to think something’s up there. if so, congrats ED on the best troll in years.
MikeJ
@jwb: It’s pretty common on blogs for the first line to have a link, giving some background on what is to come. I feel like if I have any respect for the blogger, I should check the source materials to learn what has them het up. And I always forget that ABL isn’t actually linking to something.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MikeJ:
Aha, so you have some culpability here?
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: Is it a function of her cross-posting on her own blog?
JFitz
@JGabriel: You’re probably right … but have you ever been to Flagstaff?
IM
I will miss your contributions. I always liked you since I first encountered you – at Culture11 ? – and don’t think I will read you at Forbes (really, Forbes? Why not Fox Business or the Montgomery Burns Newsletter?).
Allan
Good luck, EDK, in your future endeavors.
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead: We are not here to apportion contributory negligence, we’re here for me to to have a place to bitch while I have a second cocktail and watch the Red Sox game.
pragmatism
Keep up the good work E.D. I has a sad to see you leave.
danimal
Well, damn. You made a good contribution here, and I think you brought a lot of folks around to liking you once you engaged in the comments. Best wishes.
Oh, and was it the thread a few days ago in which you and m_c stalker gal were linked romantically? Cuz that would make me want to get the hell out of here as well.
opie jeanne
@fhtagn: M_C did that? I missed it.
I will have to seek it out for all the drama that is missing from my sad little life.
Tim O
I like E.D., so all you haters can eat a bag of salted dicks.
Farewell Mr. Kain!
geg6
Happy trails, ED. You’re the not-the-worst-libertarian now and that’s progress that I got to see happen. I really appreciate that you actually can evolve and learn since you’re the very first libertarian (who didn’t give it up as total childish silliness by college graduation) who I’ve ever known who managed that little trick. Gave me a little more faith in mankind than I’ve had in at least thirty years. Hope you’ll stop back now and then. Sorry to say that I can’t, in good conscience, follow you at the League or at Forbes as I refuse to give them the clicks, not even for you. Please don’t take it personally. You’re better than anything at either site, so perhaps you’ll move on to a place in cyberspace where we can meet again if you’re abandoning us here at BJ altogether.
A Squirrel
I like your work, E.D, even if I don’t comment much about it. I’ll catch you at The League and at Forbes. Best of luck.
Cheap Jim
I think this is a mistake. You said many stupid things here. You were horribly abused (no, not just by *IWMNBN). You saw some of the lessons, and learned a few of them. I think you are still too foolish. You will go out and say stupid things, still. And what’s worse, people will take you seriously, kid.
*It What Not Must Be Named
suzanne
Awww, E.D., I hope you didn’t take my calling you an asshole PERSONALLY! I say that to EVERYONE I like!
In all seriousness, I’ll miss ya ’round these parts. I’m really busy with work myself, and I don’t get as much blog time as I’d like, so I probably won’t read much of your stuff. Plus, I’ll miss watching m_c get the tremors every time you post. God, that amused me NO END.
Us liberal Arizona people gonna stick together, you know. All five of us. ;)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JGabriel: I also figured DougJ as SPandT, but I’m new enough here that if someone with more historical insight says morzer, I cede. Assuming arguendo that morzer isn’t also DougJ, because then cession would be gratuitous, and redundant.
cbear
E.D.
Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work — to life.
(h/t scooter)
ColleenSTL
Sorry to see you go. You have challenged me to think about some things more deeply. Understand we have helped you do the same. See you at OG!
erlking
Slán abhaile, ED. Safe home, don’t be a stranger and try not to be a dick. (If you figure that one out, let me in on the secret.) Best of luck.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Shhhh. Strictly entre nous. SPandT is actually Corner Stone.
opie_jeanne
@MikeJ: Um, what idiot supporters? People on her site?
opie_jeanne
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): That made me laugh.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@opie_jeanne: Glad to hear it, opie_jeanne. Or should I call you BRICK OVEN BILL?!
I’ve got this whole site sussed.
/raving paranoiac.
Corner Stone
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Damn. If I’ve ever bored the absolute fuck out of you to that degree then I apologize. I guess.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Corner Stone: Uh, huh. Too late to cover your tracks Corner Morzer.
Corner Stone
I’m just not a big fan of Princess Diana.
There. I fucking said it.
Corner Stone
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): I’m an asshole, not a know it all. Get your players straight you damn junkie.
roshan
All the best, E.D., May you get to do in life what you want to do. Your time here won’t be forgetten, most of it was spent in lively and contentious debates but I hope you got to learn the joy of liberalism. We’re a big tent blog, just remember that.
roshan
All the best, E.D., May you get to do in life what you want to do. Your time here won’t be forgotten, most of it was spent in lively and contentious debates but I hope you got to learn the joy of liberalism. We’re a big tent blog, just remember that.
Corner Stone
Cam Newton is a straight thug motherfucker.
In the best sense of the word “motherfucker”.
catperson
E.D., I’m sorry to see you go. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts and wish you the best!
LT
So long, E.D.
Arrik
E.D.–I did not always agree with your positions, but I always found them to be thoughtfully laid out, provoking me to think further about my own opinions. I’m sorry to see you leave BJ.
Comrade Mary
Aw, can’t you just consider this a summer vacation, E.D.? But you’re the best judge of the time you have to spare away from real life, so take care.
One request: a shot of your mohawk, no matter what colour it is. You can obscure your face. Pleeeeeease?
And for those of you getting all motherfucking metaphysical about identity and such: I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
Srv
Can you at least troll as randroid on ocassion?
Anne Laurie
Cole never pulls anybody’s keys, so I give it two weeks before you’re back, Kain. And that’s only if none of the goofier… errr, more philosophically-oriented Republicans does something outstandingly stupid & attention-getting.
Prove me wrong.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Merci, Monsieur I’ve had a seriously shitty week and you made me laugh. Merci.
PS – I owe you one for the laugh. I also got a serious compliment from a drummer on teh email today. It had multisyllabic words and everything.
morzer
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I fear I must disappoint you. I am and will continue to be myself and no-one else. I am not dougj, Sarah, ED Kain, or anyone else. I don’t spend time on blogs these days, because I just don’t find the blogosphere very interesting or informative on the topics that matter to me. Too much rage, too much haste in writing, too little information or good analysis. I’ve given up on the Democrats, who have no courage to match their few convictions, despise the Republicans, who are simply ignorant hate-mongers, and am in the process of relocating to a more enjoyable and promising part of the world. I stopped by to wish ED Kain well, and for no other reason. Sorry to wreck the conspiracy theories, but at least those peddling them can now move on with whatever important business they had in hand before being distracted by such trivia.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@morzer: You say this…and yet, the kerning.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
How do you know when a drummer’s at the door? Knocks accelerando.
Comrade Mary
How do you know when the drum riser is level? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth.
Failure, Inc.
Godspeed, ED. You’re a good guy and I wish you luck, happiness, and much riches.
asiangrrlMN
Good luck, E.D. Continue to grow and expand.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Comrade Mary: Boom-tiss
How do you get a guitarist off your porch? Pay him for the pizza.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Go towards the light…
Rotsa ruck, as Astro would say. Your time here has been real and fun, maybe even real fun at times!
Good luck with your endeavors and Dew Drop Inn every once in a while to say hi to us savages. While it’s true that m_c will have to stalk you elsewhere, that is a good thing.
For us. :)
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
How do you get a drummer to stop drooling out of one side of his mouth?
Level the stage.
arguingwithsignposts
Soooo late to this thread, but I hope at least Forbes is paying you, because most of the posters at the League of Long-Winded “Gentlemen” (ever have any women post there, Kain?) are pure long-form wankertarian bullshit, and ain’t worth a dime.
Unfortunately, I fear your leftward tilt will not continue now that you are abandoning the pushback from people (not the m_c’s, necessarily) who will challenge you on some of the crap you used to believe. I hope not, but … whatever.
Yutsano
ED, I dunno if you’ll see this (I hope so) but you are not what you once were. You decided that learning and expanding were more important than demagoguery and ignorance. I give you much credit for growing as you have, and I hope with all sincerity that growth continues.
Batocchio
Best of luck.
barbara
Sorry to hear this. I never commented on your posts but I enjoyed watching you wrestle with ideas (and yourself.) I now follow you at Forbes, but I hope you come back here on occasion.
Wick
Enjoyed your work. Be well.
J.W. Hamner
Good Luck.
alwhite
ED-
When you started here you didn’t spend any time reading, thinking or meditating. While there has been some growth on your part over time you really won’t be missed. There are plenty of better quality FPs already on the site.
Be happy, do good work.
Skip Intro
Cheers, E.D., and best wishes.
snarkypsice
Ignore the nasty nonsense from some. You’ll be missed – by me at least.
Good luck and much success to you!
Blue Neponset
Take care E.D.
Ash Can
Sorry to see you go. Even when I disagreed with you I found your posts level-headed and thought-provoking. It’s been a pleasure to follow you on your own journey of personal insight. Here’s wishing you peace and everything good, and please don’t be a stranger. :)
Rick Taylor
Sorry to see you go; I’ve enjoyed your stay.
keestadoll
Damn, now I have to go to LOOG–click hyperlink on right side list of blogs–to read your posts!!So much to do, so little time! Just joshin’ E.D. I get it. You will be missed by me and many other outside the box thinkers. All the best :)
mo
Best of luck – I always enjoyed your writing and perspective. Thanks!
bloodstar
Well… Crap.
I might be the only libertarian who can’t stand reading Reason. and having someone with libertarian leanings that wasn’t annoying and insufferable to read was a wonderful breath of fresh air.
I’ll keep an eye out for you at the other spots, but they’re not in my regular cycle of daily reading.
But you will be missed.