UPDATE: For all you knee-jerkers, there is a background to this post for which you have no knowledge, a history that has little to do with me and much to do with the blogger that I discuss and his pointless and needless insults to several women. Those who do know have already expressed their support for what I wrote here, and any opinions you feel the need to express here about how “thin skinned” I am are merely revealing the depth of your ignorance along with your poor character in judging me without knowing the facts of the matter.

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One of my previous posts, when commented upon by another in an attempt to add levity to an overly-political blogworld, prompted an asinine response by one of the “bigger” bloggers.

This person is someone who is does not have the courage to either:

- comment to the post itself

- link to the post in question to dispute my statement and conclusions (with a trackback so I am aware of his commentary)

- email me to tell me of his dispute if he does not want to “give the traffic” to my weblog

In other words, this person does not have the courage to actually dispute me directly.

To state it plainly, he is a coward, as is evidenced by his relentless attacks on women (yes, I am Southern raised, and I view anyone who attacks women in the way this person does as both unmanly and cowardly).

I am not linking to the weblog of the person in question for two reasons:

(1) he has all the traffic he needs, those who need to know, already know, and

(2) he is nothing more than an oxygen-thief from the rest of the living world, someone who needs no more attention than he already has.

So…

Why am I now bothering to waste glucose and oxygen molecules to even peripherally comment upon this inconsequential imbroglio stirred up by this person who is a waste of skin?

I am writing because I’ve received an unprecedented number of emails in support of what I wrote, or at the least in opposition to the distortion of what I wrote, and in opposition to the ignorance of the screeds the particular “big” blogger likes to write, especially if they have a misogynist element added, and in responding to these messages I have not been able to write the posts I had planned to put up this evening.

Pissing matches are pointless, and that is what more than 90% of what any cross-commentary in blogworld boils down to.

If you agree with me, de-link and ignore this person and any others who spew piss and vinegar instead of actually discussing issues and being willing to admit they do NOT have all the answers.

I have found only a very few on the left, right, or between the two extremes of the political spectrum who are willing to discuss instead of simply name-call from the first post in disagreement with someone, and this is why I have little hope in blogging changing the political landscape, just as I have little hope in the majority of humanity.

If I am proven wrong, I will be happier than anyone else, including those who prove me wrong as they wreak that change in the world.

In the short term, I merely hope this dies down so I can return to writing about things that aren’t the waste of time that this particular feeble-minded person prompts in far too many who are worth and worthy of so much more.

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Too many things to write about and too little time, too little energy.

I have a day job, and they do expect me to put in some level of work.

I’ve spent the evening catching up, researching, and writing. What I’m writing isn’t ready for publishing yet, even on a weblog.

Damn, I’m not getting paid enough for this. Well, actually, I’m paying to write and put this stuff up.

Not a good idea.

Hmmm…

There’s a thought in there.

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The iPod that is, dead again.

Argh!

I’ve identified the source of the issue, I think.

Regardless, I now have another dead iPod.

I’m the six-sigma anomaly for the iPod, it wouldn’t sell so well if there were more folks who had this many problems.

Oh, well…

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