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From Bartcop, the original crusty old Oklahoma progressive. I still read him everyday.
http://www.bartcop.com/
tjwash
(8,219 posts)I'm starting to think he got kidnapped and John McCain took over his computer
byronius
(7,394 posts)He's obviously got a background in military/police, something like that. He's got harsh words for Obama, having been a Hillary supporter. Yet he goes way far left on some things.
I've met this guy, seems like, somewhere along the way. Tough-talking alpha-male progressives with a few unresolved issues. Right?
No, I'm not talking about myself. Ahem. Cough cough.
I do like some of the features. 'Sarah Palin Nude' is always fun.
arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)He still condones torture based on a silly "24" scenario. I wrote him once refuting his views based on my experience in SOCOM.
He not only didn't publish my response in his column, he didn't even answer me.
Idiot.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I had been a contributor (both financially and content-wise), but I couldn't take his countenancing of torture. While I don't have military experience to add to my argument, it seems nearly self-evident to me that torture is highly counterproductive unless you're a sadistic creep. We went back and forth on the subject a few times, and I finally had to break it off.
It's too bad; I like Bartcop on any number of subjects, but running into the torture thing, often at totally unexpected times, just tore it for me.