Since nobody on my side of the god damned fence will do it….. I will. 😡
I personally do not give a damn what your politics is; but when one of us free wheeling writing types decides to check out this existence we call life, it is never a good thing.
Yeah, we lost another voice in this political debate.
Yeah, his politics was much different than mine. Yeah, he most likely derided Conservatives… So what?
There is a thing called real life and real damned people live in it, and when a family loses someone they love dearly. Quite bluntly, it sucks donkey balls.
To my fellow Bloggers on the left. You have my deepest condolences. I mean that. To his family, You are in my thoughts, Prayers and good wishes.
May the Late Al Weisel AKA as Jon Swift; rest in peace.
This might not be the biggest step in bringing back some damned civility in politics; but it’s a damn start.
Others Remembering: Vanity Fair, Shakesville, The Impolitic, Diary of a Heretic, TRICKSTER!, The Democratic Daily, Crooks and Liars, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Reaction, Bark Bark Woof Woof, skippy the bush kangaroo, Mad Kane’s Political Madness, Blue Gal and Simply Left BehindThe …
Update: Whoops! I guess I barked too quick.. Because Ed over HotAir.com, Instapundit and Ann Althouse are all remembering
Thanks for this, Patrick. A very classy tribute … and it includes the phrase ‘donkey balls’! That’s hard to pull off, and again, thanks for seeing past the politics to recognize Al ‘Jon Swift’ Weisel and what this loss means for all of us bloggers.
No problem. 😀
Sometimes there are things that are bigger than politics.
I agree with your view about political discourse, as much as I probably disagree with your ideology, and I enjoyed reading your memorial post. It is amazing how many people he touched, taught and just plain old made think. Ed’s post was a decent and honest effort, as well. Althouse? Not so much. Proved to be as needy in her eulogy as Al mocked her for being. If you read through the comments at the facebook group you might have noticed that his friends attest to the fact that he was, at a younger age, truly a reasonable conservative which made me laugh my butt off at the fact that truth can be as strange as fiction.
Thank you for writing this and…
RIP Al.
Thank you for your kind words. 🙂