Members - The Agonist

matttbastard commented on the post, What is with this RIP crap? This is not rocket science 3 months, 2 weeks ago

At this point the most valuable asset associated with The Agonist is probably the URL (which Valuate estimates is worth over five grand). Hopefully an arrangement can be met to port content over to a new site (as […]

matttbastard commented on the post, Goodnight and Good Luck. 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Don’t be a stranger either, Skriz — you’re always welcome at bastard.logic.

matttbastard commented on the post, Goodnight and Good Luck. 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Cheers, Doug! Appreciate the kudos — feel free to drop in at my pad any time.

matttbastard commented on the post, Goodnight and Good Luck. 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks, Dave — I will definitely be in touch. I’ve learned a hell of a lot from you.

matttbastard commented on the post, News to me 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Would someone with permissions be so kind as to liberate my pending comments from purgatory?

Danke.

matttbastard commented on the post, News to me 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I left contact links in my GBCW post, but y’all can find me at bastard.logic and on the 140.

matttbastard commented on the post, News to me 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Primary owner is Jonathan Richards of Studyup.com. jrichards@studyup.com for those who wish to (politely!) inquire re: The Agonist’s future.

matttbastard commented on the post, News to me 3 months, 3 weeks ago

I don’t know if they ever even contacted Matt.

Nada from TPTB. Fuck ‘em.

matttbastard wrote a new post, Goodnight and Good Luck. 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Been a blast serving as editor over the past 9 months, kids, but I think it’s time for me to move on. Getting a serious last days of disco vibe from this here go-go bar. Anyway, don’t be strangers.

RIP The […]

matttbastard wrote a new post, Saturday Jukebox 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Straight outta Sound City:

Post ‘em if ya got ‘em.

matttbastard wrote a new post, Around the Internets 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Friday night links.

Soundtrack:

“Zero Dark Thirty” goes feminist

Where women warriors will lead

Women in Combat: Potential for Progress in the Armed Services

Here’s What Your $97 Million Drug […]

matttbastard wrote a new post, Suicide Bombing at U.S. Embassy in Turkey Leaves 2 Dead 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Confirm explosion at the U.S. Embassy. Appropriate measures were taken. Thanks to TNP for quick action.— US Embassy Turkey (@USEmbassyTurkey) February 1, 2013

Fran Townsend on today’s fatal suicide […]

matttbastard wrote a new post, No Intimidation Here 3 months, 3 weeks ago

“How ironic that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) should use intimidation to corner the cowering Hagel into professing he could think of no senator that was intimidated by the Israel lobby.”

(<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/the-hagel-follies-even-my-low-expectations-went-unmet/272769/" […]

matttbastard wrote a new post, Egypt in Crisis: Divided Country, Declining Economy (VIDEO) 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Via DW:

The unrest in Egypt has not only left dozens dead. It has also shown how divided Egyptian society is two years after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. President Morsi has proclaimed a state emergency in […]

matttbastard commented on the post, Farewell, Agonistas 3 months, 3 weeks ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish, Chief.

matttbastard wrote a new post, The Only Three Things That You Need To Know About The Chuck Hagel Hearings 3 months, 3 weeks ago

1. John McCain has some serious brass ones to be giving anyone grief about anything related to foreign policy after nearly putting Sarah Palin one tenuous, septuagenarian heartbeat away from the Commander-in-Chief […]

matttbastard wrote a new post, David Mamet and “the Privilege of Lying” 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates on David Mamet’s recent gun-nut revisionism (“The Founding Fathers, far from being ideologues, were not even politicians,” etc) for Newsbeast: