At least I found out where a blog posting appears. Othewise I am humiliated, embarrassed and degraded because I can't find a way to delete this.

Will I be forever known as the guy who can't figure it out? Is there no merecy? Are there no FAQs?

I found you as the most recent reader post on the Cafe page...

but apparently you'll only show up at Muckraker or TPM if you get recommended more than the other posts...

now there's "nice pants" just popped up...

this should make sdure the street traffic doesn;t get caught up in the cafe discussions, what with some of our wild headlines...

Thank you kind people. I sort of get it.

Kinda.

Is there such a thing as "meaningless?" Content-free? Hardly. One can just read between the lines and find all kinds of content and meaning. The yearning to be accepted, the desire to fit in without sticking out. The fear of failure. The spirit community and cameraderie. The joie de vivre. A certain Kafka-esque feel of having to post but being unable to delete. The lost in the wilderness or "Through the Looking Glass" feeling of what is up is down and round is square. Hearing whispers in the dark and wondering aloud, "Is anybody there?" The surprise that we're all answering back... "I'm here." "Me, too!" "We're here. How about you?"

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!

Frank, I think I love you already! You are truly hilarious! Welcome aboard!!!! This gets a resounding rec from me! ;)

I like you! I really, really like you!!

Please post some more.

Your title is priceless.

Test pattern rocks da house.

Just to clarify - I think that Hillary SHOULD finally realise that it is all over and just get the hell out goddammit - but am amazed at the amount of mental effort we are all expending on discussing it...

I'm sure there is some sort of metaphor relating to Hillary sitting in her car which won't start, except I'm not sure who should be adjusting her points...

I am in favor of this post. This is a good post.

This is good news...for Hillary!!!

Here, here. I call for more meaningless blog posts!

Welcome to TPM - you're going to fit right in.

I'm laughing so hard tears are blurring my vision.

Frank Mullen III, you are a godsend to this community.

eh, 99% of the content on this blog is idiotic blathering, and the other 1% is me.

well, a few more well considered thoughts on affirmative action. Certainly, I would not compare African-Americans to monkeys. Let's take for example the bar exam. THERE IS NO WAY A MONKEY COULD PASS THE BAR EXAM. End of discussion. Now let's look at the bar passage rate for Howard University's law school. It has averaged around 50% for years, some years dipping below 50%. Compare that to a third-tier state school like U of Idaho, where the bar passage rate is about 85%. Clearly, there is a pattern here. Let's examine the numbers:

Monkeys: 0%
AA elite: 50%
Potato farmers: 85%

Now there is no way for monkeys to improve their bar passage rate. However, for AAs, it's not genetis, IT'S INCENTIVES. Affirmative action and its accompaniaments are a system of perverse incentives actually. There is no incentive to excel or to perform well on tests that test problem-solving ability. There is every incentive to wear a FUBU sweatshirt and say dumb ignorant shit, pretending that it's cutting edge cultural theory, and to engage in empty pathetic exercises like exchanging Kwanza cards.

Solution: easy, just let AAs compete on an open playing field, like everyone else. I'm betting they could handle it.

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What he says reveals not much, so we pick at his avatar for clues. Looks like a hardworking American. Sincere and steady, beside a brick wall. Frank is such an honest name. Son of a son of a Frank, in fact.

Maybe he is the one.

Hey, you were brave enough to try starting a new thread -- a lot of us haven't done that yet. And I have learned enough to maybe try it myself someday. My hat's off to you, Frank. Please stay!

Pity the author of the recent post about TPM losing its edge, focus and relevance--that thread got knocked off the "recommended" list by this one.

I just checked back in to see how things are going. Quite well, it seems.

I keep clicking on the "All Readers Posts" link but repeatedly come back to "Recent Readers Posts." For accuracy, shouldn't that link say, "Click here to not go anywhere"?

It may actually be working, but you may be looking in the wrong place on the page. All the right-hand features (lists, ads, etc.) remain in place; the Reader Posts are displayed in a scrolling list in the left-hand frame, in the chronological order posted. Best of luck.

Hats off!

to the meaningless blog with no content that can generate so many comments & recommendations. The barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting on the grass.

Welcome, Frank! Love your post and comments!

As a professional, I can tell you that it may not have been a Freudian slip you made as your entry here, but you will fit right in!

But what will you do for an encore???

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By the way, a "Clin-tone" is exactly the kind of speech the clintons use to denigrate, confuse, and attempt to destroy speech itself, logic, and any opposition. Also known as a "billarism." So if you see those words, you don't need to claim ignorance. (see clearthinker's blog for where that term originated... no way to search for terms like "clearthinker" yet, so simply look for one of his posts or for his photo of the "thinker" with a little cartoon on top - click on the name and then you can look for his blog from yesterday)

P.S. I love the idea of the Wicked Witch skywriting: Surrender Hillary!

Frank, I must say, you are a MUCH NEEDED addition to TPM - your post kept me in chuckles for most of the evening last nite (the only other poster that makes me guffaw like that is TrollCritic3000). Please keep posting - we like you very much!! ;)

I just had the same problem. Cutting and pasting from Word does not work. You need to type it in the old-fashined way. Then it shows up. Very weird. No help pages.

This is really funny Rootman!

By the way, did you know the direct translation of Cypher from Ancient Aramaic is " Shaman of the Blue Waters "

Man, I saw this title in the recommended posts and worked up the intestinal fortitude to read through a scathing indictment of TPM. Guess I read a little too much into it. :)

Mullen, Mullen, Mullen . . .

All hail the absurdity of life!!!

I've just returned from visiting the links listed above under "Cafe Features."

Oy.

"A Table for One," is where five or six people post. Shouldn't this be called "A Half-dozen People Fighting Over One Chair"?

And what's with "The Coffee House"? I'm in a Cafe, already, right? So why should I go to a Cafe? And when do, I get a list of recommended posts from May 1st. I'm starting to learn TPM language: "Cafe" means "last week" and "archives" means "the future."

I'm still trying to figure out "TPMCafe Book Club." The trick here seems to be that you engage in deep discussion about books but never mention the titles. Sure keeps the riffraff on their toes; sticking your head in there is like walking into a theater halfway through a Japanese movie dubbed into Farsi with Portuguese subtitles.

All I ever wanted to do--really--was post my homemade graphic of the Wicked Witch of the West skywriting "Surrender Hillary" across the clouds. Could anyone tell me how link to a graphic using English words and phrases that have established, agree-upon meanings?

So brilliant! I suspect you are Spencer Ackerman in disguise.