A NewD irection For Me At JOM

This is a throwaway post in the sense that it only contains inside baseball.  But I'm putting it up as context for what I am now doing.

I began reading JustOneMinute at some point in 2005.  Like half the internet, I came to JOM because Tom Maguire was The Man when it came to covering the Libby-Plame kerfuffle. Over time I began wading into the comments as a lurker because people like Clarice Feldman (and too many others to name, lest I leave some out) were putting up nuggets of information that were invaluable if one wanted to keep up with what was going down.

In the fall of 2006 I decided to dip my toes into commenting myself. Here was my first comment:

A New Direction for America as the dems chosen slogan?

Say that again and see if you can hear it.

Or, move the "d" from direction over to new and then read it out loud again.

A NewD irection for America

And you think it's coincidence that Bill has been popping up in the news recently?

Posted by: hit and run | September 15, 2006 at 12:43 PM

To my surprise, Tom Maguire used my quip in his next post.

And the rest, as they - whoever they are - say, is history.  

I chose the name "hit and run" with the intention of being just that as a commenter - someone who would chirp from time to time to make a joke or play the fool, but mostly just sit back and watch as others were sifting though the meaty stuff of the Libby-Plame thing.

AND THEN THESE PEOPLE MADE ME LOVE THEM.

JOM is more addictive than any substance known to man.  So now I've been here for just about a decade and have made some of the best friendships with some of the best people on the planet.  While there are certainly others JOMers who have met more other JOMers than I have - I am proud to say I have now met 24 JOMers and additionally 15 JOMer family members from spouses to kids to grandkids.

Anyway, having now edited 10,000 more words out of what I was going to say (go ahead, you can thank me for that), let me cut to the chase.  I am changing my JOM name due to the fact that Tom has allowed me to put up front page posts (background here).  I love my name "hit and run" as a commenter.  I hate seeing it on front page posts.  

In 2008 I started my own blog to avoid being too verbose with my schtick in the JOM comments. TheVoiceInMyHead is now largely dormant - though I imagine I will pick back up once the 2016 election gets going.  When I started that blog, I made the decision to blog under my real name.

In order for me to continue as a guest-blogger here with front page privileges (and let's be honest, if Tom comes back full-time and wants me to scram, I'll be happier than anyone to oblige), I would much prefer to do so under my real name.

So, no more "hit and run" for me.  Or, I suppose, you.

ONE REASON FOR WRITING THIS POST: Making this change will change all the posts I have put up so far - and will change every comment I have made while logged in to Typepad. So by the time you read this (and if you are still reading at this point in this post, you deserve a medal and a psychiatric exam) "hit and run" will already be gone.

Link to Last Page of Thread.

Comments

[Peter]

good luck hit, or Jeff or whatever your name is from the naughty box

[Dave (in MA)]

RIP, Hit

[Peter]

oh, and first

[NKonChrome]

Hi Jeff!

[henry]

My brain doesn't update that fast.

[Jack is Lightning]

Dave,

Glad to see you survived your surgery. Stay well.

We are off to the Blue Mass at church. Photos later on my FB page. May God bless our police and first responders.

[Porchlight]

Wow, big move, Jeff. Congratulations! I will still call you hit. :)

[Porchlight]

God bless our first responders, Jack.

[Miss Marple]

I will have to put a post-itnote up on my computer screen for a while, but Jeff it is!

I so enjoy your posts, Jeff!

[jimmyk]

Reminds me of the first Superman movie when he zips around the Earth "backward" to go back in time and change something that already happened. I had no idea that Jeff possessed such powers.

[Rick Ballard]

I had no idea you were transnomative, Jeff.

NTTAWWT of course.

[Dave (in MA)]

Reveille for the 1st Dobbs morning at JOM

[Marlene]

What's in a name? That which we call a rose,etc.,etc.

[Buckeye]

Hit and Run...

We hardly knew you buddy!

[NKonChrome]

Better Bugler Dobbs than Fred C Dobbs

[maryrose]

Hey Jeff
You are doing an incredible job with your posts
Keep up the good work

[maryrose]

Did anyone see Stephys smarmy apology on GMA

[maryrose]

Marlene
Are you saying Jeff will still smell as sweet as Hit

[Ben]

I had no idea of my seniority over your junior bugling. As for the kerfluffle which made your day there have been many since like the Annennothigburger and of course.......

BENGHAAAZZZZEEEEEEE. !!!!

[James D.]

maryrose @ 9:55

Stephanopoulous was smarmy? How could you tell?

[henry]

Somebody need to stand under a windmill and collect fresh feathers.

[NKonChrome]

Stephanos needs to be Williamsed, and blown out of his cushy multi-million/year gig. What a fraud.

[Extraneus]

I knew you were gonna do that.

[Eric in Boise]

Glad you will continue to post, hit Jeff; you're a great co-blogger. Also, thanks again for the "last page" links, which are a huge help when reading on an iPhone.

[Ben]

Thanks for the unintended compliment Sancho.

[Old Lurker]

So Hit rides into the sunset with Barney Frank and Other Tom. Interesting group, that...

[maryrose]

Benghazi will be the undoing of Queen Hillary
You heard it here first
That is why Dems continue to ridicule it
In truth they are terrified it will unravel their hopes of keeping the WH
Note to Dems You are toast in2016
No one trusts your lying faces anymore

[MarkO]

Jeff, you sly dog. Thanks for everything.

[rse]

Yet another reason jeb's candidacy is a problem. http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Data-for-Development-Full-Report.pdf

This would be a terrible time to have UN lovers from either party in the White House.

Read what Jeffrey Sachs is really saying here. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sustainable-development-data-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2015-05

[NKonChrome]

I am so not into Jeb, on any level. GWB was quicker on his feet.

[Jeff Dobbs]

OMG - going back over the list, I've met 24 JOMers, not 23. I left someone out. I can't say who out of extreme embarrassment, but they have always been my favorite. Stealth edit on the post to correct.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Freed Peter from the naughty bin. Just wanted to acknowledge the fact that he was first: He was first.

[Old Lurker]

Me too, NK. I don't even like his speaking demeanor since it borders on Tom Daschle "softness".

Go away already and take Christie and Santorum with you.

[rse]

Oh good. http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/05/there-are-no-urban-design-courses-on-race-and-justice-so-we-made-our-own-syllabus/393335/

At Harvard. Maybe mo can go back and sit in.

[rse]

This is for our lurker especially. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2015/05/14-chicago-innovation-labs-urban-policy-washburn-liu?rssid=metro

Maybe they can also work with the new Pres library.

[Old Lurker]

LUN pictures are just for NK.

[NKonChrome]

Old Eeyore... I mean Lurker :)-- Jeb is a lot like Hilligula, he's wooden, inartful, dull (plus she's an effin' deliberate liar, while Jeb is just inanely earnest.) I believe Repub primary voters will quickly tell Jeb, Christie and others to go away, but Dem voters are lining up like lemmings to pull the Hilligula lever. Bwahhhh....ahhhhh.....ahhhhh.

[NKonChrome]

Greece - Detroit with olive trees and Feta cheese.
Thank God the Nazis incentivized my dad to flee back in the day. (BTW the movie "Capt Whatever's Mandolin" is about the small episode in history. The Italians first occupied Cephalonia, they made a landing on a beach near his village which he witnessed. The Italians walked off their boats 'with a mandolin in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other' according to my dad but not many rifles in view. They didn't bother anybody after the landings, which led to the German re-occupation which all led to tears for the Italian troops.)

[Extraneus]

Missouri House Speaker decides to resign after inappropriate text messages with intern

Republican.

[Lazybusy]

Goodbye Hit, welcome Jeff.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Murdered ambassadors left out in the cold by ass covering corrupt pols like Hillary and Barry are funny.
But Ben is very disgusted with the Dems. You can tell by how he holds up the sheet to cover their shiny corrupt asses every time they pull some new Tammany Hall stunt.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

If only the Missouri House Speaker had the good sense to inappropriately text the prostitute who was running a bisexual bordello out of his home, he not only wouldn't have to resign he'd be a hero.

[Ben]

Well at least the intern was of the opposite sex and Diehl didn't go denialist.

[Ben]

I am of course disgusted with dems but there is always the lesser weevil.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Disgust with a lesser evil is frequently disguised by justifying it, making excuses for it and ridiculing the victims of it.

[Marlene]

My morning perusal of the Manchester Union Leader reports this interesting item...Martin O'Malley took a private jet to NH for a recent campaign appearance. O'Malley regularly uses the private jet owned by John Coale,the husband of Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.
O'Malley's spokesman said he often takes Southwest between BWI and Manchester. Probably when he's in a *populist* mood.

[Threadkiller and run]

Congratulations Jeff!

You know, I was there the last time you transitioned.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrDjDyHJwY

I remember it like yesterday.

[Ben]

I'm just leveling the field where you play as you deflate the ball for personal advantage to the favored team. When objective referees don't call a needed penalty I'm here to review the tape.

[Some Guy]

Congratulations on coming out!

err...I mean, you changing directions...

wait. That doesn't work either.

Welcome Jeff

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Ben leveling a field;

[Threadkiller]

NFLPA appeals Brady suspension, will call Vincent, Goodell as witnesses

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25186104/nflpa-appeals-brady-suspension-will-call-vincent-goodell-as-witnesses

[Threadkiller]

Hahaha!!!

Ignatz!

[Dave (in MA)]

Martin O'Malley took a private jet to NH for a recent campaign appearance.

I keep seeing shirtless pictures of this guy accompanying news articles about him. I hope it doesn't catch on with all of the other candidates.

[James D.]

Dave, I sort of hope it does catch on. It would end some of those candidacies really, really quickly.

[MarkO]

With the dimwitted Boomer in your corner, what could go wrong.

Whatever you think of Deflategate, Goodell should never, I mean never ever, have placed himself in the position of hearing the appeal.

It makes me think he is painfully aware of the thinness of the case.

[Miss Marple]

I had to reload everything on my computer. I hope this post works.

[Miss Marple]

Why idd I have to reload? Because eBay screwed up the postage label program. Another eBay member said she got them to post by cloasing out of Ebay, closing out of her browser, re-logging on, and closing out her browser history. So that's what I did.

Of course, I lost a lot of sites and will have to re-enter a lot of passwords, but at least I got my label printed and didn't have to go to the post office!

[Beasts of England]

RIP B. B. King

[matt]

Woke up at 3:00am to find that B.B. King has passed away. The first time I saw him was in the early 70's and the clarity and beauty of his singing and playing was extraordinary.

I got to see him and the band many times over the years, the last time a few years ago when he would enter after the band had played a few songs and he would riff and growl, being 85 or 86 or so.

He spent something like 300 days a year on the road until very late in his life.

One of my achievements as a parent was taking my kids to see him, Ray Charles, James Brown and a number of other greats. I figured that we were living in a transcendent time in music and that it was a part of their education.

Rest easy, Mr. King.

[Beasts of England]

Nice background post, Jeff. Or should we call you 'El Jefe'? ;)

[Some Guy]

MarkO,

Goddell was notified that he would be called as a witness prior to his making a decision he would hear the appeal. Not only does it reveal that he's afraid to have an independent arbitrator, it's grossly unethical. He's going to judge if his own testimony is evidentiary and credible?

[henry]

At least he didn't photoshop a new GS logo and call himself "the blogger formerly known as Hit & Run."

[Frau Es geht alles vorueber, es geht alles vorbei]

If you like your hit & run, you can keep your hit & run. Or...life goes on.

Life without hit? A bland, grown-up world with no safety pin piercings or dances with chainsaws.

OK, Jeff it is.

[Jane]

Hit,

Can I call you Lou?

Just askin'.

[Jane]

I hate to break it to you Hit, but I think Caro has the record for meeting the most Jomers. If she ever shows up here, I'll make her do a list in exchange for her beloved bourbon.

[MarkO]

Ah, my Caro.

[Some Guy]

Can I call you late for dinner?

[gmax]

You should write a song about the alter ego. Paul Simon did and he made millions off it! Time's awastin'

[narciso]

Corelli's mandolin, great news Jeff, the Top Men are still grading the Medici on a curve, when he
'flaked' on a major issue,

so I'm skimming Brand's Bio of Ronaldus Magnus, and just picking a page at random, he spends 6 pages on the 'October Surprise' squirrel,(231-237) he gives backstabber Stockman, and Doug 'Katrina boat' Brinkley, credibility, in one instance passing along gossip from the late Abu Ammar, it's hard to imagine any kind of balance from this sort of publication,

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Congratulations, Jeff !

But I am going to miss the sound of
"hit and run amok."

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Michigan couple: Name for son No. 13 still up in air
Posted by: Extraneus | May 15, 2015 at 08:17 AM

How about 'Baker D.' ?

[boatbuilder]

Oh my God! YOU'RE Jeff Dobbs? ;-)

[narciso]

good news everybody:

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/05/15/john-mccain-is-all-about-closing-gitmo/

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

MSNBC, lowest ratings in ten years.
They're getting better at being bad.

[henry]

How much di McCain contribute to the Clinton Foundation?

[narciso]

it's at the Spinal Tap, playing kids birthday parties level of 'more selective'

an example, they had this Jones character on Morning Joke, with this piece of idiocy, 'did God kill Jesus' who apparently found a Spew audience, who couldn't tell him, why Jesus died for us,

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Barry says "historically" chlorine gas is not a chemical weapon because chlorine has other uses and so Syria hasn't really crossed any red lines by gassing people with it.

I guess if a wannabe widow gives her multimillionaire husband rat poison she didn't really murder him because she was just trying to prevent a stroke by filling his pasta fazul with warfarin.

[Miss Marple]

Aside from his stupid interpretation, chlorine gas is most definitely a chemical weapon according to the Geneva Convention, written in response to the use of CHLORINE GAS in WWI.

Did anyone call him on this or did the reporters just sit there, chewing their cud?

[Some Guy]

Ig,

When you do murder someone, remember to use a hammer. Historically, it has other uses.

[James D.]

Wow.

I said yesterday that I didn't think there was any bottom to how loathsome Zero could go, but I have to admirt that the comments Ig links to surprised me.

Chlorine gas is not a chemical weapon? Seriously?

How the f**k does this guy have an approval rating above the low single digits?

[lyle]

So..."Jeff" is not the same thing as "JEF"? Got it. ;)

[narciso]

you would be hardpressed to know it:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-tells-police-we-must-heal-the-rifts-between-police-and-communities/

see english does not adequately express my reaxtion
here,

[lyle]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/14/hillary-clintons-litmus-test-for-supreme-court-nominees-a-pledge-to-overturn-citizens-united/

If you thought the court eunuchs would be on the lookout for lese majeste with Precious, wait until Cankles ascends to the throne.

[NKonChrome]

Ig/JamesD-- I agree, I believe this is a new Obummer low. Making excuses for manic dictators gassing his own people. Historically? Wasn't WWI chlorine gas one of the horrific reasons for Western states banning chem warfare?

[narciso]

to get back over Macho Grande, Goodell as referee,
I mean how does one respond to that.

[NKonChrome]

It turns out that Obummer has been playing hide the chlorine gas for over 1 year: http://www.businessinsider.com/syrias-deadly-chlorine-gas-wasnt-included-on-chemical-weapons-ban-2014-4

[Threadkiller]

Historically, a Natural Born Citizen wasn't born a British Subject.

[narciso]

that was Lurch's cunning cunning plan, with Lavrov, that Nina Burleigh was a little ecstatic over in Rolling Stone,

[NKonChrome]

and... why yes chlorine gas was the grand daddy of chemical weapons which lead to the Geneva Protocols which Syria signed in 1968. Obummer is a fucking maniac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol

[Old Lurker]

Can I tell the EPA to stop bothering my Nail Salon tenants on the grounds that Acetone has other uses?

[lyle]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/14/flashback-to-protect-clintons-abc-censors-and-buries-911-miniseries/

In case you'd forgotten.

[Threadkiller]

If Atticus Finch Could Tweet . .

.http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/if-atticus-finch-could-tweet/

[Some Guy]

Wells having trouble keeping his facts straight:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/14/wells-contradicts-his-own-report-regarding-mcnally-texts/

[MarkO]

The lack of education among the media is astounding.

[NKonChrome]

Goodell as decider? Meh, it matters not. There is nothing to decide, the NFLPA won't give any testimony from Brady; NFLPA writes: “there is less direct evidence linking [Mr.] Brady to tampering activities than either [Messrs.] McNally or Jastremski," and that "The Report—based on speculative possibilities piled on top of speculative possibilities and a disregard of contrary evidence—is a legally inadequate basis upon which to impose this unprecedented discipline."
their 'appeal' uses weasel words to claim, you didn't prove it, which translates to Brady's a cheat but you didn't prove it. Color me satisfied that Brady won't say shyte about the facts. The NFL has reached WWE level of absurdity.

[Some Guy]

I thought you said Brady wouldn't appeal NK?

Then you said he wouldn't appeal the facts, he would only seek a reduction in the suspension.

It's clear from the appeal letter that he is disputing everything including the facts.

[Threadkiller]

I don't follow, SG.

Are they saying that Wells wrote something in a report after he couldn't talk to McNally about that something before her wrote his report?

[NKonChrome]

I can't figure out what the Florio guy claims, so impossible to know if Wells even misspoke. In any event, his million dollar report speaks for itself, Wells should shut up. Oh, and the Patriot McNally Fat Farm stuff? truly insulting to the NFL customers.

[narciso]

a vizzinism, this is why Medici maladroitness seems particularly negligent,

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/05/islamic-state-seizes-government-center-in-ramadi.php

[Beasts of England]

Brady should have filled his balls with Chlorine gas.

[NKonChrome]

Brady has not appealed. NFLPA has appealed. Brady won't say shyte. Time will tell. Your boy Kraft has so far come up with McNally being on the Fat Farm as his evidence that Wells is wrong. Heh, HEH, HAH... HardyHarHar. The rest of NFLPA/Kraft is 'you didn't prove it, and your being mean to Tommie'. What a bunch of nonsense. Some 2 bit Mo. politician stands up and says I did, and I was wrong so I'm gone. None of these fat cat elites can bring themselves to do that. pathetic.