Comments on: Lockstep liberals police the field

By: newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » Thoughts on Lawyers, Guns and Money at the End of an Election Cycle

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:36:06 +0000

[...] I’ve noted before, the level of disrespect and intolerance for alternative left [...]

By: newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » Greens: reject Ellsberg’s advice, or don’t – just don’t run away from it

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:08:32 +0000

[...] well worth considering, and though I think critiques have generally been of the familiar, bullying, spluttering “policing the left” quality I saw in responses to Conor Friedersdorf’s foreign policy/human rights article in [...]

By: Thomas Nephew

Thomas Nephew — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:38:42 +0000

That’s very nice of you, thanks! I hope you’ll feel free to comment here whenever you like.

By: Ila

Ila — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:30:29 +0000

Mr. Nephew, I just discovered your blog yesterday, and I’ve bookmarked it to read regularly. (Avedon linked to your post about Booker T. Obama) Great stuff – keep up the good work!

By: Thomas Nephew

Thomas Nephew — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:52:45 +0000

The use of the Nader 2000 campaign as “punch a hippie for free” card has long since annoyed me no end. But I don’t know how much organizing/party-building Nader did after 2000, though, and that (such as it was) was Loomis’s point in the quote. Of course, Nader has been a reliable voice of dissent since then, and that’s worth a lot too.

By: Bill Day

Bill Day — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:21:06 +0000

I don’t know anything about this guy Loomis, but I can say with confidence that Ralph Nader has made more progressive change in any given year than Loomis has in his whole life.