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Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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  1. 1.

    The Moar You Know

    Still very prevalent in the “underdeveloped countries” (includes Puerto Rico and Mexico, so we’re not really talking underdeveloped here) and it is not just a “fever”. I hope he’s got a good doctor, because dengue fever comes in two breeds, one is like a less nasty version of ebola (the hemorrhagic form), and it can and will kill you.

  3. 3.

    Poopyman

    How the hell … ?

    I don’t remember him being out of the country recently. Was he? You don’t get it at the salad bar at Applebee’s, after all.

  6. 6.

    Poopyman

    I was completely wrong in thinking dengue was nearly eradicated. In fact, it’s a growing problem with 50-100 million people infected yearly.

    The fact Glenn thought it was flu indicates (to me, at least) that it’s the milder form. Or so I hope.

  9. 9.

    Violet

    You don’t travel much to tropical countries, do you John? Dengue is a problem in a lot of them.

  11. 11.

    Arclite

    Surfer Andy Irons *may* have died from Dengue fever, and we get the occasional sickness reported here in Hawaii from time to time.

    I hope Glenn gets well, and I hope he takes care of himself. Blogging has taken its toll on him, as his appearance has changed dramatically over the past few years.

    It’s important to have Glenn around for the long haul. He covers issues few others do, and usually builds his cases well, and is one of the strongest anti-establishment voices out there.

  14. 14.

    Face

    I honestly thought people stopped caring what Glenn says/does in the 1900’s, but what do you know…

  17. 17.

    Elroy's Lunch

    Oh yes, still around. Mrs. E’s Lunch and I do some volunteer work at a medical mission up in the campo in the Dominican Republic. Besides malaria it’s the other disease that we are warned about. Keep those mosquito nets tucked in at night.

  18. 18.

    Danny

    @Poopyman:

    Glenn pretty much lives in Brazil since the US won’t let his partner move to America. This is one major side effect of America’s stance against gay marriage, it makes it difficult for two people from different countries who love each other to be together. Fortunately for Glenn and his partner Brazil is more progressive about these matters.

  19. 19.

    cyd

    I’ve had dengue before. It’s an exceptionally unpleasant disease notable for little haemorrhages all over the body, just under the skin. Those itch like hell, but thankfully don’t scar.

  20. 20.

    madmatt

    Very commonin the caribbean including US virgins and PR. On the plus side, once you have it once you are immune.

  21. 21.

    Arclite

    @Danny:

    Fortunately for Glenn and his partner Brazil is more progressive about these matters.

    We are losing on a freedom issue to Brazil. Yeesh.

  24. 24.

    Pangloss

    My dad is from Brazil, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time there. My brother is a Major in the Brazilian Air Force. It’s very surprising how undeveloped the hinterlands are— it’s like going from the 21st Century to the 19th Century sometimes, in as little as 50 miles. I wonder if he went camping or traveling in the countryside….

  25. 25.

    geg6

    @Poopyman:

    He lives in Rio.

    Edited to add that I see others have gotten here before me.

    That said, best wishes to Glenn and I hope he gets well soon. I hear that is a tough disease.

  30. 30.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    I don’t understand why most balloonbaggers are going soft on Glenn Greenwald just because he has a potentially fatal disease.
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  31. 31.

    Bmaccnm

    I caught dengue fever in El Salvador in 2004. Blessedly, it wasn’t the kind that kills you, only the kind that makes you think, “Please, let me die.”

  32. 32.

    PaminBB

    @madmatt:

    Very commonin the caribbean including US virgins and PR. On the plus side, once you have it once you are immune.

    Just to clarify, you are immune to the particular strain of the Dengue virus with which were infected. There are four strains, and you remain susceptible to the other three. The strains tend to be geographically isolated, but they have each become somewhat more widespread, and of course if you travel you may be exposed to a new strain.

  34. 34.

    electricgrendel

    Dengue fever is endemic in Matamoras, Mexico which is right across the border from Brownsville. In fact, dengue fever is moving into high and higher latitudes as climate changes makes the northern climes more hospitable for the mosquitos that carry it. Be prepared to see more of this in America.

  36. 36.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @geg6: I figure it kind of went like this: John shampoos rugs yesterday. Rosie makes deposit today. It is always the way with the pets. Clean the carpets and cats feel the need to decorate with hairballs and dogs suddenly get diarrhea.

  41. 41.

    Lost Left Coaster

    I was in the Peace Corps, and I have had multiple friends who caught Dengue. All reported the same thing — it is hell on Earth. And there is nothing you can do about it, really. There is no treatment like there is with malaria. You just have to wait it out.

    I’m holding out good thoughts for Glenn that he rests up and heals soon.

  42. 42.

    dr. luba

    @PaminBB: I remember learning about dengue at a travel medicine course I took. Nasty disease, no prophylaxis or treatment available. If you get a secondary infection with a different strain of dengue (there are four), it places you at risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome

    There is currently no vaccine available. There are ongoing programs working on a dengue vaccine to cover all four serotypes, because, IIRC, it was thought that a vaccine which covered fewer might predispose you to DHF or DSS if you caught an uncovered strain. (Not sure if this is purely theoretical, or if non-quadrivalent vaccine trials showed this.)

    Also, FWIW, dengue is known as “breakbone fever” because of the horrible musculoskeletal pain associated with it.

  45. 45.

    Richard S

    The disease is primarily found betwee 35 degrees south to north which includes the US South of Atlanta. Probably because of urbanization the incidence has increase 30 fold from 1960 to 2010. Thank you WHO. It’s a nasty little virus.

  46. 46.

    Richard S

    And I very much second John’s wish – I miss Gleann – he’s a terrific breath of air on some very troubling issues.

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    Dengue’s also common in some parts of China, where it’s still known as “Break Bone Fever”, because sufferers say it hurts that much. A former co-worker who picked it up there, maybe a decade ago, said that in China patients tended to have malaria flare-ups, and the tourist bureaus warned Americans/Europeans not to “let themselves” be admitted to Chinese hospitals for fear of contracting malaria as well.

    Hope Glenn recovers soon, and without lasting aftereffects!

  48. 48.

    Amir_Khalid

    When I was 15 I had a classmate who died of dengue fever, which by the way has been flaring up in Malaysia in the past year or so. Last week there was a story about the Institute of Medical Research here conducting a trial of the use of genetically modified mosquitoes against dengue. The trial has oly just concluded, and there was no word on the results yet.

  49. 49.

    Bruuuuce

    I knew dengue fever was still a current disease because one (I forget which) of the Big Pharmaglomerates runs a radio ad here with a woman who had it, and who was treated with one of their products. After all, all they want to do is relieve the pain. Such humanitarians. [/sarcasm]

  50. 50.

    JWL

    @dr. luba: My father was a navigator on transport planes during WW2, and shuttled between Honolulu and Alameda (gravy duty in that theatre of annihilation). On return trips to San Francisco, his planes would routinely ferry wounded GI’s back home. These included servicemen stricken with horrific tropical diseases, which served to put the fear of God in my dad. He lived to a ripe old age, but to the very end refused to contemplate traveling overseas (excluding Hawaii, which he dearly loved visiting).

  52. 52.

    Anne Laurie

    @Allan:

    It took Jane Hamsher about one hour before she started using Glenn’s announcement of illness as a club with which to bash anyone writing anything critical of Glenn in the recent past

    … and you just gave her “another club”, genuis.

    I thought I knew from cherishing a grievance like it was my firstborn child, but I swear, some of you people act like Hamsher called your mother to mock the Garanimals she picked out for you.

  53. 53.

    satby

    At least 3 of our volunteers in Haiti had it while I was there last November. Bad stuff. When I wasn’t doused in Deet I was in my mosquito net.

  54. 54.

    Tehanu

    In L. Sprague De Camp’s near-future science fiction (“near” being in the next 2 or 3 hundred years), Brazil is actually the leading country in the world, politically and technologically, and Brazilian Portuguese is the language of choice for diplomacy, space travel, business, you name it. De Camp thought it was just a matter of time until Brazil started to outpace Europe & N. America in the real world and wrote accordingly.

  55. 55.

    Tim I

    No wonder California is bankrupt, if their Universities are paying assholes like GG to speak.

    Are they trying to make their students stupid?

    I do hope there will be an investigation, along with multiple prosecutions.

  56. 56.

    DougW

    Get well asap, but take a few days off after you start feeling better. This is not an easy bug to be rid of.

  57. 57.

    Randy Paul

    It’s been a significant problem in Brazil for some years and he does spend a lot of time there.

    It’s only primarily an issue in developing countries because so many developing countries are in tropical zones. As it’s a mosquito borne illness it’s bound to be dangerous in warmer climates as the mosquito that carries it resides between 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south. The northern end of its range runs through a substantial portion of the Deep South.

    Another mosquito born illness that has plagued the US in recent years is West Nile Virus. People died in New York from that disease.

    Tim I: the college cited in that letter that Greenwald’s column linked to is Claremont McKenna College.

    Just for the record, most colleges fund speaking engagements via student activity fees charged to students or other fundraising activities. MIT, for example funded its lecture series through money generated from films.

    Not that you should let some facts get in the way of the ad hominem.

  58. 58.

    hilzoy

    I found out a lot about Dengue when I was getting ready to go to Pakistan, where it’s very common. There are several variants, and for some reason, which I now cannot recall, the really really bad variant — the potentially lethal one, and the one that gives rise to the name “break-bone fever”, is one that you can only get when you get Dengue fever for the second time. By all accounts, having one’s first case of Dengue fever (which is merely very very unpleasant) standing between oneself and that second case is a really, really good thing.

    Also, no vaccine.

  59. 59.

    burnspbesq

    “Are they trying to make their students stupid?”

    Universities in California don’t have to make their students stupid. Our K-12 system handles it.

  61. 61.

    Magatha

    @Allan: A typo, Allan? Really? You’re gonna get all churlish and snarky about a typo? You’ve got no credibility with me. Anne Laurie has a lot.

  62. 62.

    Allan

    @Magatha: Churlish and snarky is a very good characterization of Anne Laurie’s semi-literate and content-free response to my comment. Forgive me for responding in kind to the Hamsherbot.

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