Bartcop Celebrates 10 Years of Kicking Flying Monkey Ass!

[onehandle]

One of the first "blogs" before blogs existed.

Ten Years of Resistance. Many More!

http://www.bartcop.com/

Come visit us in the Bartcop Forums!
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=1

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Congratulations, Bart!

:party::toast::thumbsup::party:

[BOSSHOG]

2. Bart's a badass

I like the little fucker. A few years ago I sent him a few bucks and he gave me a call. We had a nice long chat. May he continue to blog for years and years and years. A modern day Will Rogers if you will.

[Teaser]

3. Anyone know how he's doing with his illness?

I hope there has been some improvement in his prognosis...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

4. He doesn't make a big deal about it.

You wouldn't even know if you didn't happen to see the page on the one day he mentioned it.



This is from 2004:

http://www.bartcop.com/1264.htm


"Remember this - from Friday, February 13th?


> Medical Update

> I'm fine, no need to call for any details because there aren't any.



That was a lie - I'm not fine.

Truth is, I have untreatable cancer - that's the bad news.

The good news is, I'm going to be here for the 2004 election and
I'm going to be here for the 2008 election and
I'm going to be here for the 2012 election ...and maybe beyond - we'll know more in mid-May.

Since I'm 50, this isn't the same crushing blow it would be if I was 16.


Hey, smoke one - drink one...
Take some deep breaths - we're all going to make it thru this, but anybody
with a passing acquaintance with logic knows that nobody lives forever.


Why did I lie?

Stupidly, (and this is not what a smart gambler would do) I assumed things would be OK,
I've lived a charmed life for 50 years, so I figured there was no reason for my luck to change.
So I announced to dozens of people that I was going to the doctor on Friday the 13th.

Sidebar:
When I was in the ER 15 days earlier, I was dizzier than Jessica Simpson on Cuervo and the doctors
told me I had a problem and that it might be cancer. Then I thought I heard another doctor say I was in a ton of trouble, so, in my dizzy state, I thought I had maybe 3 months to live.

So when the specialist told me I have a decade or more to go, I felt like Superman.


:snip:

Finally, he said, "You have a very scary sounding disease, but if you have to have untreatable cancer, this is the kind you want."

ha ha

What a stupid thing to say.


On the way home from the doctor, all I could think was what to say on the page.
That Friday the 13th, dozens of people wrote to ask, "So, how did the Doctor visit go?"

With no time and no other options popping into my head, I took the coward's way out and lied.
I knew if I told the truth, people might take an hour to write a long e-mail that would include:

How sorry they were for me,
Their experience or their family's experience with cancer,
All the details about their symptoms and procedures and surgeries
Talk about support groups, therapy and online chat rooms

That would only make it harder for me to deal with this.

I have no symptoms, I may go years without any symptoms.
There's no reason to get into any of that.

Besides, cancer can blow me.
I could still beat this.
I would enjoy adding cancer to my list of victims.

Y'know those seven stages of grief you're supposed to go thru?
I don't intend to go thru any of them.
I'm 50 and I have a great time every day and that's not going to stop.

True, my peach truck has arrived, but instead of running a red light and killing me two weeks ago,
it merely served notice that it I have a decade or more to enjoy before it arrives.
I can live with that, and that means you can live with that.

I really don't want to swap cancer stories with anybody.

You might think I'm in denial, but I'm going to handle this MY way, and I'm asking you to respect that.
I'm the one with the cancer, not you, and if you have it, please don't tell me about it.

There's no reason for me to take all of you with me on this ride - that would be crazy.
If something particularly funny happens, I'll mention it, but this is a comedy page.
We're going to continue to have a good time every day.

[gratuitous]

5. Is Bart still trying to figure out how to justify torture?

Talk about a flying monkey ass.

[Teaser]

6. Bart basically invented progressive blogging....

and he get's almost zero credit for it.

[gratuitous]

8. I sent him many contributions over the years

I think the total was in the low to mid four figures, but his constant harping on "24" style torture scenarios, his inability to defend his thinking, and his refusal to discuss the matter sensibly finally led me to break off all contact with him.

Too bad, too. I had really looked forward to playing poker against him some time, but his fabulistic thinking on this subject was just too much for me.

[OzarkDem]

10. I'm still a donor

I don't agree with him all of the time, but most of it anyway. He's an incredibly creative person and an original thinker. That's very refreshing.

[Fud]

13. It doesn't seem like ten years does it?

It seemed like only a little while ago we were sitting in the bartcop chatroom watching Gore take florida and celebrating. Then they called it for whats his fucking face and i remember Bart saying fuck this i'm going to sleep. Then we woke up the next day and all hell broke loose. Now some say they don't wan't anything to do with him because they might disagree on certain issues. Who does agree on everything all the time? I happen to think he is totally wrong with his support of Hillary but that's just me. I wouldn't disown my own relatives over things like that allthough i don't think i could get along with them if they were cromag neocons and would disown them.

I still remember years ago finding Bartcop by an innocent google search term "rush limbaugh" "asshole" and voila guess what came up!

And yes he was one of the very first bloggers before blogspot was even an idea.

[gratuitous]

15. I wish him all the luck in the world

But torture is just a deal-breaker for me. It's not an abstraction, it's not an academic exercise. It goes right to the heart of being human and beneficient governance. Keeping it "in reserve" or for "special" occasions just invites a more thorough search for reasons to justify it, and excuses soon slide into imperatives.

[blm]

7. Bart may jump on the wrong side of some issues, but he's still a patriot.

And I am thankful for his work - even when he gets his facts or history wrong, he'll eventually work through and discover the truth.

I'd rather trust Bart with all his flaws than 98% of broadcast media.

[onehandle]

9. Lunch Bump. nt

[area51]

11. I love bartcop.

:loveya: :toast: :yourock: :loveya: :toast:

[Blue_Tires]

12. congrats!

ttt

[msanthrope]

14. Bump to an original--I don't always agree with him, but if they

ever make a blogger Hall of Fame, he should be on the introductory slate.

[Buck Turgidson]

16. Before blogging had a name, there was BartCop!

I can remember writing to him about publishing a full page once a day. "Hey!", says I, "Why don't you just update the same page when you finish a new topic?" I was prescient, I tell ya.

Remember, "Rush Limbaugh - Lying Nazi Whore"? Ahh, good times...good times.