I do not post much here. I come here to learn what I do not yet know and to gain a broader, deeper understanding of what happened, not to impose my thoughts (or beliefs) on others.

I do take exception, however, to “projectile foolishness,” which characterizes well the post to which I replied. Or, more simply put: Don’t bash Marcy with empty nonsense… People here (like me, a Master Chief Legalman (retired) ) have got her back.

This is not a site for those who cannot grok realpolitik; it will not be an end-all-be-all for every reader, let alone those with solid political cred and wonky background. But this is the problem with American journalism and the state of our democracy as well; far too many people have not the patience, intellect, fortitude to stay with the trudging grind that is real journalism. The slow grind of stories which became the Watergate scandal is no longer the bread-and-butter of most news outlets simply because their constituents want bread-and-circuses infotainment instead. What a pity; we end up with the commercial news we deserve if we don’t demand and commit to more and better, including the weedy research required of real journalism.

[Edit: by the way, I think richcpl has some ’splainin’ of his own to do instead of bashing somebody with deeper academic cred than he has. How is it that the financial journalism of this country blew the financial crisis? By dumbing down the content of their work and following conventional wisdom ad nauseum, perhaps? He owns it and ought to be looking more closely at his own work and consider whether deeper, introspective work might have served the public.]

This is an advanced conversation. Marcy’s work is analogous to watching Roberto Clemente field long line drives on the warning track and then pegging the hapless runner at third. Every time. It may be “inside baseball,” but that makes it not an echo chamber but actually the antithesis of it. New revelations destroy echos; Marcy has earned a reputation for producing new revelations and demolishing echo sources (and chambers)… those hapless runners trying for third on Marcy’s cannon-arm.

But then here you come, bellyaching that you don’t understand what the long wooden clubs are for. You don’t understand what the funny-looking, oversized leather hand-coverings do.

As another poster has pointed out: your bellyaching says much more about you than about this site.

To reiterate and extend: this is an advanced conversation on a highly technical and esoteric subject, the understanding of which requires that one take the time to read oneself in, and bring oneself up to speed. The necessary preliminary chapters are easily available.

Your choice is to whether to continue the disruption with your bellyaching, or to do the necessary hard work of bringing yourself into — and up to — the conversation.

Much of what I like best about trying to keep up with Marcy is that if I don’t, before I know it SO MUCH has happened that I feel lost; it’s because I didn’t MAKE the time and TAKE the time to read every post. Sometimes I can’t read every post. I accept feeling lost; what I cannot accept is being spoon-fed.

Thanks for kind words.
I wish that I could keep up with Marcy; there’s no possible way that I can!

There are certain threads (anthrax) that I simply don’t read b/c it’s one ‘theme’ she covers that I find too disturbing – but also, just involves details that I don’t have time to track.

I try to pick ‘themes’ and follow them.
But I suspect that you also have that sense of ‘wow! maybe I do get some of what’s going on!’ when you read a post that really makes you think, or that pulls back the veil, so to speak.

Plus, there are enough ‘experts’ around these parts that when I don’t understand things, someone explains without making me feel like too much of a foolish soul. But it does require reading following things over time, IMHO.

Nevertheless, that’s part of the ‘addiction’, or engagement, or satisfaction, eh?

MadDogs is some kind of a wizard when it comes to locating obscure documents. Ditto several others on this thread. Personally, I find him witty as hell.

If you’re honestly interested in what EW has to reveal and explain, why not take a deep breath, then carry on when you’re in a more cheerful mood?
I don’t think he’ll hold a grudge.
I hope that you don’t either.