viciousfrankle

+1 for Toner and I'll paypal him a pint.

that was god damned exquisite.

I wish people would realize the level of emotional freedom you've achieved and strive for that, because those of us without the unique challenges you face tend to put ourselves in emotional cages of varying levels. You really seem to have no emotional cage, or a very trivial one.

How do you handle your low points?

Thanks man, you're doing a lot for me today by spending your time here. I really appreciate it, and I will join you laughing in the face of that bitch-ass SMA of yours. BWAAAHAHAAHAAHAAA! BITCH-ASS SMA.

Edit: To clarify, I originally included a sex question, but dialed it back to part two only. Aaaand he caught part one and answered it like a boss. Thanks for coming through on that one man.

Hi Arn, having seen John Pilger's documentary "Year Zero", and having learned of the Khmer Rouge and the role of the United States in that awful, awful time in human history, I want you to know that I've donated to your project just now. I believe in you. I can never know what you went through, so instead, I will support you the best I can and also take your story as inspiration to do great things for others in life as well. Thank you for your hard work on this.

I think you've overburdened your writing with carefully-crafted, highly opinionated views because your desire for the book to sell well has dictated how you've written and has become the impetus for your wholesale slaughter of Snowden.

You point the finger at media, and then you turn around and use the same magnitude of hyperbole in your own writings and your responses here to bolster your arguments with more absolutist rhetoric.

I have a problem with your writing style and your responses here, because they are no better than all the other mouthpieces peddling borderline-disingenuous, polarized punditry in the name of sales, eyeballs, or whatever else it is that you're trying to win from us with your "strong opinions".

Take more than Snowden to task for what has gotten out to the general public in the form of details that serve no direct purpose in the whistle-blowing process. Take your own ilk to task, the ravenous journalist who wants to bring the spotlight on their own journalism before they do on the quality of their journalism. Those reporters choosing what to publish could further cull down the information he provides them, and journalists certainly exercise that right when they want to.

Yes, there has been a lot of information that is tangential to his primary goals of informing the public on the true state of surveillance within the US, but to promote the idea that having a billion-dollar budget somehow equates to us accepting their use of that budget is ridiculous. The ideas that we should accept how they use our taxpayer money just because they have it in-hand is absurd.

Let me tell you, it's all noise now. The negative impacts that you argue for leave no room for shades of gray, and I'm confident that you are fully aware how your writing is coming across, and you're not doing yourself any great service by giving your reader more of the same as what cascades out to us from mass media already. Disappointing AMA, clearly more interested in closing book sales than adding something to this conversation.