Great! The cartoons really move me. Maybe, as a conservative, I should start drawing silly characatures of left-leaning pundits? Oh wait that's right, most conservatives are out of their parents' basement and done with college. I see. Different target audience: RESPONSIBLE ADULTS.

Check it out, baby!

http://oldjoel.blogspot.com

You have incurred a six-month ban on use of the word "touchstone" from the Copy Editors' Umpire Squad.

Reason: Thoughtless misuse of word.

Relevant rule: A touchstone is something used to test whether something else is genuine. It is NOT a milestone, a keystone, a capstone, a catalyst or an inspiration.

Subsequent misuse of this word may incur a two-year or lifetime ban.

Libertarian sanity:

Http://ABCDunlimited.com/ideas

It's going to be FUn to chronicle the mental meltdown of the Left later this week due to the Hillary win in Pennsyvania on Tuesday. Thank you, Rush Limbaugh, for making this possible with your BRILLIANT Operation Chaos.

http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/

Why does one even need PJ Comix's unreadable blog to be entertained? Democratic Underground has long since become a laughingstock without anybody on the outside providing commentary.

The mental meltdown of the Left thanx to the contentious primary campaign is being chronicled in all its hilarious detail at the DUmmie FUnnies. Operation Chaos has made this all possible.

http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/

I'm glad I checked this again.

Awwww, he made fun of my age. My widdle feewings are hurt now.

Seriously though, good attempt at a smokescreen. I'm not sure what you meant in the way of 'irony' sir, since me seeing through this bit of drivel and happening to be young doesn't really fall into that category. If that is indeed what you meant, then I guess I paid better attention in that lesson than you.

Or it could be how, you know, the brain cells are the first things to go when you get old. So sad...

(see how the age thing goes both ways?)

Good article, but I think you left out a lot of the rightwing influential blogs, such as Stormfront, Aryan Nation, Christian Identity, the Chalcedon Society, KKK, etc.

Looks like you hit a nerve there, Roy. The WATBs are out in force! Watch out WATBs there's a terrists!!!11 quick, back under your beds!!

Village Voice maybe you should change your name to the Village Idiot. You have no clue what even goes on in the world beyond what Soros and his ilk tell you. You are pawns thinking your kings.

http://mjwilsonblog.blogspot.com

Are you sure it’s correct to regard stupid/evil as a ratio, a zero sum in which the more stupid the less evil, or vice versa? You assign Michelle Malkin, for instance, a 97/3 stupid/evil ratio. I suspect it would be more accurate to acknowledge that while Malkin is (at least) 97% as stupid as it’s possible for a human being to be, she is also far more than 3% (60%? 75%?) as evil than she could be.

So Mister Snitch---How much did Bev Harris take you for? I remember when Randi Rhodes was cheerleading for Bev until she found out too late that she was a con artist despite numerous warnings in the DUmmie FUnnies.

Tedious, poorly targeted, reflexively hateful and humorless prose from a writer who's obviously jealous of the attention these bloggers get. Apparently he hopes attacking big targets will get him some attention.

Hint: There IS such a thing as UNDESIRABLE attention. Writing this piece is like going to the prom with the world's biggest zit. Yes, you WILL be noticed.

I haven't left the site yet, and I've forgotten this waste of time already.

ignatov---Of course, you wouldn't find the DUmmie quotes FUnnie. For example, when we quoted you folks over there opening up your wallets to shell out lots of bucks to an obvious scam artist like Bev Harris, you would find that to be a painful memory and not FUnnie at all. However, we vicious EVIL rightwingers find your incredible gullibility incredibly hilarious.

Oh, and Bev Harris is only $10 away from overturning the 2004 election results.

Great job, Roy! I wish to recommend your hilarious blog: alicublog.

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/

PJ: I've read your blog. It's not funny. As the gang at Sadly, No said, "the DUmmie FUnnies guy sounds like he’s yelling at the radio."

The Bleat? This journal is gentle, well-written, humorous, and intelligent. One free citizen of this country has a personal online journal about old movies, home-ownership, the kid, the dog, the job--and yes, about his own personal opinions and emotions. And this gets him branded as stupid and evil?

As a Bleat reader for oh, eight or nine years, I've not always agreed with Mr. Lileks on political matters, but I've always found it quite clear that while he is a bit more conservative than I, we both reside in that part of the country that so many conservatives and liberals alike persist in denying--the center. Center of the country, center of the socio-economic structure, and centrist in political belief--on both social and economic issues. Not everyone is a "wing-nut", you know.

Your decision to include it in your hit list is nearly as inexplicable as my decision to register for this site, just so I could comment here.

Thank you for your article. I have never heard of you before and I haven't read the Village Voice since I was a brain dead Liberal living in NYC in the late 70's. But it is a pleasure to see my favorite blog writer and fellow Minnesotan, James Lileks, get top billing in your weird little take on the blogosphere. Although, truthfully, I must admit, as James doesn't do links to weird writings defaming him, I had to find you through my second favorite blog, Little Green Footballs. Charles not only linked to you, he put your entire screed about him on his post.

And, I have to include my pride that here in the Land Where Absolutely Nothing is Allowed, Liberal Minnesota, we have at least two of the "Conservative" blogs that seem to annoy you - Lilek's Bleat and Powerline (there may be more, but like other readers, I found the first page of your article tedious enough to forgo the pleasure of reading the rest).

There must be something that strengthens the Will here in Minnesota to Fight the Good Fight - perhaps it's because we all live under the Caliphate of Minneapolis?

(Oh My!....

The EVIL rightwing DUmmie FUnnies blog makes the Left look like crazed loons merely by copying and pasting their own words. Your humble correspondent basically sits on the sidelines and comments on the comedic action. The latest DUmmie FUnnies edition provides a front row seat to the Leftwing meltdown currently going on thanx to Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos." Watch and LAUGH!

http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2008/04/wow-what-meltdown.html

James Lileks? Seriously? I think the guys at IMAO, Ace Of Spades, Protien Wisdom, QandO and Blackfive are going to feel slighted that they cannot our evil Lileks.

Shar---That's right. We sent evil rightwingers right into the hospital room to deny treatment...but only in overactive DUmmie imaginations. In fact, the total amount of outrage expressed on this prior to us being in the Weblog Awards finals was exactly ZERO.

Yes, it was all so "horrible" what we did that for over two years not a peep from the DUmmies on this. Manufactured outrage ONLY occured when we got into the Weblog Awards finals and the DUmmies just couldn't take the publicity given to a blog that makes them look like laughingstocks by copying and pasting their own words for all to see...and laugh at.

Oh, and what happened to that lawsuit threated by disgraced "journalist" William Rivers Pitt? Perhaps we need to wait for another 24 business hours for that to happen.

roy edroso,

So, was your Flyover-State servant Dumb or Evil? Or had he adapted enough of the local cant that he could fake thinking in the correct (that is, your) way?

UPDATE: I just checked over at the dreaded LGF, a blog entry of which linked to this article. Here's the score sheet:

Links Hits To LGF from VilVo: 116

Link Hits attributable to LGF Readers: 25

Link hits minus LGF Readers: 91

Comments generated at VilVo by this post: 25 so far.

Comments generated at LGF by this post: 1,229 so far

Lot of evil in the world. Thank God.

BTW Roy, I din't realize this article was seven pages. I was winded after the first.

They paying you by the word now, Roy?Like the old pulps used to? Is that what we've come to? What's this world coming to?

You'll be back in front of an Underwood before you know it, LOL!

We have a new idiotarian!!!

Congratulations, Roy!

David, you didn't read the link about the Malkin/Frost incident. Go read it:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8823

She doesn't live in Baltimore. She drove over to this guy's place of work, asked another tenant about him, and spied on his house...because she disagreed with a policy espoused by a family member. That may not technically be "stalking," but it's creepy as hell. What's strangest of all is that she didn't seem to have the slightest bit of interest in talking to the family. Why didn't she just call them and ask them for an interview, to get their perspective?

What the hell is James Lileks included in this article anyway? Although his right-of-center leanings can occasionally appear in his writings, The Bleat is pretty much apolitical. You must've been desperate in order to include him.

{Apologies in advance if the links don't work; there is no preview feature here, and my system - and PC competence - leave much to be desired.}

I'm writing in support of the PJ-Comix guy. Sure, he's not in the Wingnut Major League, but if Roy or someone else ever wants to review the minor league folk [like they do routinely at Sadly, No! {Ref.1}], Mr. PJ-C deserves a decent score for evil, since he helped to deny a guy dying of pancreatic cancer {Ref.2} the financial contributions his friends and admirers tried to send him {Refs. 3-5}. Whattaguy! I'll betcha Glenn Reynolds never did a thing like that! Really, should such initiative go unrecognized? I think not!!

The links below (3-5) are but a few of many. You can Google ["DUmmie funnies" and "Andy Stephenson"], or ["DUmmie funnies" and "pancreatic cancer"], and treat yourself to some other accounts of the handiwork of this master wit. Truly a hard act to follow; maybe it's some of that thar performance art that so eludes the understanding of rubes like me. {Gosh golly, maybe the whole Iraq thing is performance art, and perhaps there is a little bit of Mr. PJ-Comix in all us Amurkins! }

[1.] http://sadlyno.com

[2.] http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4046336

[3.] http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/7762.html

[4.] http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2200668#2203119

[5.] http://susiemadrak.com/2007/11/06/09/52/wingnut-blogs-will-stop-at-nothing/

Thanks, all, for dropping by. Special thanks to Revvy, who says, "I'm barely out of highschool and saw through your tripe." Par for the course, kid; when I was your age I saw through *everyone.* Continued good luck in school -- when they get to Irony, pay special close attention.

Thanks also to populist Jeff, who asked, "What's the last time you urbs listened to anything someone from Nebraska had to say? " Well, it's been a while since Chuck Hagel was on Meet The Press, but I think I saw a fellow last week who hailed from one of those states out yonder, and listened attentively as he told us about the night's specials.

Finally, PJ-Comix, it's been too long. Last time I looked you were trying to spam your way into Weblog Award. It was wise of you to start aiming lower.

Oh yeah: I'm flattered to be compared with Bil Keane, and look forward to a similarly lengthy career. With material like this, how can I fail?

I think the guy is kind of clever... like that Family Circus guy in the comics. Man! That guy makes me hit a knee!

CNB---I'll even give myself a 30/70 but only for today since I've been under the effect of mucho vino.

"...if you know what superdelegates are, or who said “God damn America,” you’re already a victim."

Wait... so, I've been educated on the workings of the electoral system and informed of the sort of company that a man who wants to run the country keeps.

And this is on your list of.... BAD things about blogging. Huh. So you'd prefer an ignorant populace that just votes how you want them to, dammit, and stops asking so many bloody inconvenient questions. Even worse, now we're getting answers!

Way to discredit yourself in the first two sentences of an article.

And for the record - I'm barely out of highschool and saw through your tripe. Maybe you should work on your own 'stupid rating'.

P.S.: If I'd ever tried in school to base a persuasive piece off of the concept of a 'stupid/evil rating', I'd have been failed and my teacher would have suggested I drop down a level. And rightly so.

Your external links suck. They all go to a Village Voice 404 page.

"Coined the terms idiotarian and anti-idiotarian for, respectively, people who don't think like him and people who do."

Isn't this EXACTLY what the Village Voice is doing in this miserable hit piece? e.g., if you don't agree with me you must be EVIL or DUMB?

This is what happens when dialog only goes one way. Those of us in the sticks consume tons of media - news, movies, tv, magazines - all cranked out by the elites in Hollywood and Manhattan. We _know_ who you are and what you think of us. On the other hand, what's the last time you urbs listened to anything someone from Nebraska had to say? Probably never, since everyone there is either EVIL or DUMB.

Christ, it's like every lib enclave is surrounded by a one-way mirror - we can look inside and see you, but when you look out, all you see is... yourself.

Funny, but also depressingly accurate. Unfortunately the left-wing bloggers are just as predictable and easily stereotyped. And the self-proclaimed "independent thinkers"? Sullivanesque hysterics who alternate between screaming about Fifth Columns and fawning over their flavor-of-the-day, be it Obama or Cheney.

PJ-Comix: I've got to think someone who rated a 20/80 would have managed to avoid the typos and the double-post. I'm pegging you at 50/50, and that's being generous.

This article reads like a Rorschack of Obama's elitist 'bitter' mentality. Angry Righties clinging to their outmoded belief systems like a security blanket. Like Libs don't do the exact same thing.

Now you know why 70% of the American public doesn't trust 'old media' to report objectively on anything. Mr. Edroso could have done a great investigative piece on Righty blogs, but what does he do? Pulls a Dan Rather hit piece, complete with 'evil/stupid' ratings that are too juvenile and stupid to be evil. Like I couldn't find the same thing on any KOS or HuffPo blog. The liberal echo chamber is SO predictable. Borrr-ing. Snore.

BTW the 'curse' of modern technology, Roy? The same curse that resulted in Drudge publishing the Monica Lewinsky story Newsweek sat on and wanted to bury? The same 'curse' that tanked Dan Rather and his forged TANG documents?

The same 'curse' that's resulting in the sinking of the New York Times into the East River, and the loss of hundreds of jobs for biased hacks masquerading as journalists? That's a bad thing? Wouldn't be sweating yours, would ya, Roy?

Oops! I'm wif stoopid. I guess my comments about the DUmmie FUnnies are still up. Okay, you can change our STUPID/EVIL RATION to 20/80.

Hey! Thanx NOT for taking down my info about the DUmmie FUnnies which has been rated as the FUnniest vicious rightwing blog on the Web. I will return the favor by "DUFUing" you in the very near future.

Hey! Thanx NOT for taking down my info about the DUmmie FUnnies which has been rated as the FUnniest vicious rightwing blog on the Web. I will return the favor by "DUFUing" you in the very near future.

I am OUTRAGED that you did not list the DUmmie FUnnies as part of your guide to the Rightwing Blogsphere. We are the top vicious rightwing blog on the web (finalist in 2007 Weblog Awards). So to help you out, here is some info about the DUmmie FUnnies:

ORIENTATION: Bemused

TONE: Hilarious

STUPID/EVIL RATIO: 0/100

HISTORY: Begun by PJ-Comix in 2004 to chronicle the flustered remarks by the DUmmies in the Democrat Underground in response to Dan Rather being exposed as using fake documents in his TANG story. This quickly evolved to copy and pasting the unintentionally hilarious remarks of the DUmmies and other leftwingers. The DUmmie FUnnies quickly grew to the most popular blog on the Free Republic (biggest PING List).

MODUS OPERANDI: Posting the crazed leftwing rants in Bolshevik Red followed by the commentary of your humble correspondent in the [brackets] ala Mystery Science Theater 3000 but with a political orientation.

FUN FACT: PJ-Comix used to be the American correspondent for Krokodil Magazine in Russia as well as syndicated his humor column throughout North America. Co-author Charles Henrickson is a Lutheran pastor and biblical scholar who speaks 6 languages: three dead languages and three living. Noted for his song parodies.

CANDIDATE: Waiting for the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan.

WHAT TO EXPECT: Lots of laughs by merely copy and pasting the crazed rantings of the leftwing loonies.

That was nothing about nothing, Paulied31.

Perhaps the lure of cash will bring out someone willing to discuss an argument based on merit:

I've got $100 bucks here to whoever finds evidence of Malkin "stalking or hounding" the Frost family.

"I think this tripe is what David"Mamet was referring to in his "Why I am No Longer a Brain Dead Liberal" article a few weeks ago. Heck of a job, guys."

Ah yeah, that newfound respect for jackasses is really paying off for Mamet. "The Unit" pulls about the ratings as a Suzanne Somers marathon on HSN. He'd be better served if he buried himself under unsold copies of The Edge.

I think this tripe is what David Mamet was referring to in his "Why I am No Longer a Brain Dead Liberal" article a few weeks ago. Heck of a job, guys.

daryljfontaine -- have you actually visited Malkin's site to read her postings on the Graeme Lloyd incident? Find me one instance of her "stalking or hounding" the family. When you fail, as you will, you owe an apology for spreading slander.

Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but why did the village voice take down this Savage Love column?

http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0804,savage,78927,24.html

I found the responses to it.

http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0805,301533,79060,24.html

Here is the text I found elsewhere on the internet.

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I'm a 25-year-old male. I'm a zoophile and always have been. I'm a longtime reader (I'm sure you're thrilled), so I know my interests aren't on your approved list of sexual activities. Not trying to argue that point. However, it's clear what turns my head when I walk down the street, and it's never the person holding the leash. I know from your column and many other sources that once your brain is "wired" a certain way, "rewiring" it is unlikely (snowball's chance in hell), so this isn't going to go away. My question is, what do I do?

Currently, I don't date. I was married once, briefly, never had sex, marriage quickly annulled. I currently have no sexual attraction to any human, male or female, so I don't feel the need to date. Also, sharing this information with anyone I attempted to date would probably end in horror, tears, and my needing to move out of state. However, a lifetime without a relationship (two-legged or four-legged) seems unappealing. Here are the options I see:

1) Get a shrink (who I can talk to about this) and a girlfriend or boyfriend (who I can't talk to about it) and, in terms of the sex, master giving head, since my dick won't want to join the party.

2) Buy a house with a big yard and… well, you know.

I don't care if you print this. I'd just like another opinion. I mean, honestly, who else would answer this anonymously, for free, and I actually have some faith in his judgment?

Really Unsure For Future

In short… my advice… which is really going to annoy Mike "Man and Animal" Huckabee… is… um… to buy that big house, RUFF, one with a nice, big yard… and do what you gotta do. Inside, please, shades drawn.

Bestiality is wrong, wrong, wrong, because an animal cannot give its consent. But… uh… anyone who's ever actually owned a boy dog knows that most would be only too delighted to… um… well, you know.

I'm assuming that you want to be fucked by dogs, of course, as that's almost always the case with dudes into dogs. Man-on-dog is a whole lot wronger than dog-on-man, if I may use a certain former senator's formulation, most importantly for reasons of safety for the animal, so I don't smile on man-on-dog. (Actually, I don't smile on the dog-on-man, either—it's more like "grimace, cover eyes, look away," but, hey, that's the reaction I have to cunnilingus.) Take a torn-up girl dog to the vet, RUFF, and you're going to wind up talking with the police and having to cross a PETA picket line to get back into your house—and it'll serve you right.

For the record, I'm con bestiality (and very much pro cunnilingus). I think fucking dogs is wrong, wrong, wrong. But I had pork and beef and chicken at dinner last night—all 100 percent factory-farmed meat, derived from animals that were cruelly tortured every second of their brief and miserable existence—and my particular strain of Tourette's syndrome commands me to say this: If I were an animal, I'd much rather be screwed than stewed. We murder animals for their flesh, skins, fur, and just for the fuck of it. Those of us that eat meat; wear fur; run around in leather pants, jackets, shoes, restraints, etc.; and kill animals for sport don't have much moral authority when it comes time to lecture those of you who wanna smooch the pooch.

Finally, RUFF, build a nice, tall fence around that yard, okay? And seeing a shrink probably won't make you wanna screw humans, but hey, it couldn't hurt.

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Malkin deserves major points for evil for her obsessive houding of a Baltimore family over what she pronounced "abuse" of the S-CHIP program.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1670210,00.html

This is the incident that drove a long-time Bush-supporting righty blogger out of the wingnut column once and for all -- Malkin and her reprobate Flying Monkey Brigade stalking and hounding the family of 12-year old Graeme Frost because he had the temerity to deliver a radio address for the Democratic Party in favor of S-CHIP.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8823

Serious evil, what the right as a whole, and Malkin and her steaming pile of commenters in particular, did to this family.

D

Great list, although I would have given Insty, Althouse, and Jane Galt higher "stupid" scores. Also, it's odd how this list left off lonewacko.com. The ones listed are puffballs compared to him. Not only does he consistently destroy the arguments made by those who support illegal immigration, he's also been doing it for years so he instantly recognizes affiliations, talking points that others have used, and things like that. He also comments on blogs and points out errors, logical fallacies, and the like and does so in a way that probably leaves other bloggers in tears. In case you want to post an update, see lonewacko.com.

Oh, and one minor thing I noticed: Malkin supports assimilation, and her issue with Alba was that she'd rejected assimilation in favor of identity politics: tinyurl.com/26krn9 Maybe that could go into the update too.

Funny, informative, well-written, engaging, slick, sharp. I enjoyed this article, and I hope to see similar of style and authorship in the future.

Nice job Roy!

You forgot Mark Alexander!

patriotpost.us

stupid/evil: 20/80