...Daniel Larison will sock you in your goddamned face and you'll stay plastered. Wow. 

You know that Daniel is my friend and ally. But let's think for a minute. Daniel will finish his thesis sooner or later. See how much damage he can do on his blog? Now imagine someone paid him to do this regularly. This should scare people who might be the target of Daniel's wrath. People scared of Daniel Larison should begin to put a lot of money in a pot and offer it to him - along with their women, beads and javelins - asking only that he stop blogging and not take a job where he can hurt them. I won't argue with Daniel whether some of my paleo-friends  are anti-Semites. Daniel is right. Paleo arguments against the invasion of Iraq were not based in anti-Semitism and it is scurrilous to suggest they were. But let's be honest. There are some paleos you don't want to hang around you while you're picking up women at a bar, or grocery shopping, or doing anything really. There are some paleos who spend their days drinking wine and not fixing the hinges on their front door and saying things just to piss people off (not that there is anything inherently wrong with that). There are some paleos who hand the mainstream media, and the conservative media a free pass to ignore them. But Daniel Larison cannot be ignored. Engaging with him is probably not wise either. In the past a few people could have battled him and he would run the state of Illinois out of pencil lead and paper. But pixels are cheap and the mainstream conservative movement has no shortage of foolish things to say. Unless someone gets him a very full pot, I think Daniel is going to keep himself busy for a long time.

PS: Yes, I'm back. There was a week or so when Eunomia, The American Scene and Surfeited with Dainties were all silent.  Let's try to make sure we don't all do that again.