Comments on: RIP commenter “Mike K” https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: om https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775799 Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:52:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775799 ” and miles to go before I sleep
and miles to go before I sleep”

Robert Frost

]]> By: Chuck https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775629 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:52:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775629 mentioned sailing from California to Hawaii

He posted video of parts of that trip, I don’t recall where. Lots of wind, they were really moving along. IIRC, they managed second place.

People I know, or are familiar with, are thinning out. Heck, there is a good chance that I will die in the next ten years, or so the statistics say. It sucks getting to the front of the line.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775604 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:57:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775604 neo:

Yes, it wasn’t Occam’s Beard. It was another O-name from that period:

Oblio.

]]> By: MJB (Mike) Wolf https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775554 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:47:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775554 This blog is on my list of favorites and I’ve come here to read Neo many times, usually prompted by something mentioned by Insty or Althouse, but often just to see what she thought of the topic of the day. That a comment section even existed was something I had overlooked until today, but I was very familiar with Michael K from the Althouse and Chicago Boyz comment sites.

It is lovely to see him memorialized here and by the aforementioned hosts. Thank you to Neo and all who shared reminisces of Dr. K here. This is obviously a comment section I should frequent for the wisdom and kindness I have seen here today.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775550 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:25:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775550 Well done, neo.

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775548 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:04:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775548 A post about Michael Kennedy, with several links, is up at Chicago Boyz:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72545.html

]]> By: Chases Eagles https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775525 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:44:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775525 October 12 he is commenting on downsizing and moving to a smaller place and two weeks later he passes? Wow. No more words.

This is such a strange community, not the people, the association. Feeling deep sadness for people that you don’t really know.

]]> By: Michael Kennedy – Chicago Boyz https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775523 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:20:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775523 […] Michael’s personal blog is here. He contributed to a wide variety of other blogs (including lefty blogs that, Michael occasionally complained, banned him as a dissident). Neo has a lovely post about Michael here. […]

]]> By: Dax https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775521 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:08:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775521 Thank you, Miguel, for finding out about Mike K, though it is sad news.

]]> By: Molly+Brown https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/04/rip-commenter-mike-k/#comment-2775520 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:44:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=138625#comment-2775520 Sad to hear this news. A life well lived.
I had noticed that he was commenting less as he was one of my favorite commenters. I even found myself wondering what his kids – I seem to remember one was an FBI agent – thought about the Kash Patel nomination. Was hoping he would weigh in.
Godspeed, Mike K

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