Comments on: A Yourish.com poll

By: Doug Purdie

Doug Purdie — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:00:49 +0000

I comment here, but only occasionally.

More about me:
51 years old
live in the South SF Bay Area
used to be center-left until 9/11, now center-right
Technically, I’m Jewish because my mother’s mother’s mother was Jewish (German Jew who changed her name from Mueller to Miller after emmigrating to the US).
Not Jewish culturally.
Not Jewish religiously
Not Christian or Muslim either.
Raised as a Presbetarian but I’m atheist now.
strong supporter of Israel

I love cats (got two of my own – Maximus Sylk Phansipans, a.k.a. “Maxi”; Bobbie Kuger Melinkamp, a.k.a. “Bobbie”) and love to see the pics of your cats doing what mine do also. But, that’s not why I come here. I need regular reassurance that someone else out there is as outraged as me about terrorists, their supporters and their apologists.

There is definately a leftward media bias and there is definately anti-Semitism. I just can’t seem to identify them as often as you do. Maybe you see it too much. Maybe my radar is not finely tuned enough.

Love you anyway. Thanks for being here!

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:52:16 +0000

Well, Michael, check out Hot Air and the Vent tomorrow.

I wrote it. And it stars an update of the Iseema bin Laden you knew and loved. I’ll post about it when it comes out.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:05:48 +0000

I keep waiting for more extracts from the Diary of Iseema bin Laden. The boy has a great future as a feckless, international playboy, sort of like Taki.

Taki is a rich Greek antisemite with Pitchfork Pat at “The American Conservative” magazine. He once was asked by Customs in the UK if he had anything to declare. As a joke he said he had some cocaine in his shoe. They searched him and he was carrying some coke for personal use. That got him six months in one of Her Majesty’s Tennis Prisons For Upper-Class Twits. As far as I can tell he makes Bertie Wooster look like a genius.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:58:50 +0000

I read your blog pretty regularly these days, probably because I enjoy the snarkiness and because I often disagree with you. I don’t often comment, even on posts that really catch my attention. Sometimes it’s because the news piece is interesting by itself and doesn’t require further comment. Sometime it’s because I don’t know much about the issue. Sometimes, particularly on issues involving Israel, we’ve heard all the arguments before so it’s tough to contribute anything new, pro or con.

Also, I tend to be a perfectionist about my writing: I spend a long time composing even a brief comment. So I don’t comment unless I have time to spare. Rest assured, though, that I often find you blog thought-provoking and well worth reading.

By: Lil Mamzer

Lil Mamzer — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:50:28 +0000

I don’t comment very often because your posts are about all the commentary that’s needed most of the time. I’m sure you don’t want or need a chorus of sycophantic yes-men.

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:55:14 +0000

here are a few things I’ve written. But, my husband is funnier—the name of his blog is: The Lost Fart of Blogging.

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:52:04 +0000

whoa—that was too easy ! Thanks !

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:50:19 +0000

I enjoy your blog because I love and pray for Israel. And our USA press is SO biased. But—passwords, and going to all the trouble to comment and then it dissappears…its sometimes too discouraging, sometimes.

By: Laura SF

Laura SF — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:44:55 +0000

I don’t comment much anywhere – no time, and I don’t like the clubby in-group/out-group atmosphere that seems to develop at most blogs (when it doesn’t distintegrate entirely into chest-beating and bullying).

As to why I’m here – hm. I guess you (Meryl) seem like someone I’d like personally – a slightly geeky Jewish writer who likes cats, Israel, Firefly… and New Jersey. What’s not to like?

By: Mark James

Mark James — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:16:54 +0000

Even though I commented on a handful of times on your site, I put down that I was a non-commenter, because usually you’ve said all that needs to be said, I think. I said not to change your site because I’m afraid that the areas of agreement between you and your readers might constrict. For instance, you like Giuliani and I don’t, so I’m glad you kept that down to one to two posts. However, if you comment on American or UK Islamists, I think that’s an area that we readers could all agree on. Hope that helps!