How exactly is someone supposed to respond to a statement like that, anyway? If someone starts a conversation on a bus with ‘all people are assholes’, or ‘all people are idiots who only want to talk about Britney Spears’ it does not open a conversation on anything except commiseration about how, yes, all people are idiots.

This is the Lowest Common Denominator in action. The post you point to is rather pallid, and all it did was inflame Ry, and then counter-flame you.

To paraphrase the pop song, you’re looking for intellectual love in all the wrong places, if you go looking in blogs.

Even the science blogs website is top heavy with, NOT science, but POLITICS. Why? Because people are dumb, have limited attention spans, and just don’t care to exercise their brains in a medium- the Internet- that is entertainment oriented. Period.

We can think this not a good thing, but unfortunately my desires mean little to the masses. So do yours.

Perhaps your constant criticism would carry more weight if you chose to write a weblog yourself. If you’re looking for something “original” (your complaint that one of my posts at The Moderate Voice was lacking in originality) you will discover it is very difficult to find. Ever since the printing press made preservation and widespread diffusion of ideas easy, “original ideas” have become more scarce with every passing year.

Instead of constantly harping on how wrong I am and how you dislike what I write, perhaps you should consider offering something more constructive than snide rock-throwing from the sidelines.