I could defend the rest, but fuck it; I’m tired of explaining myself to people, and I think you’ll agree this is becoming a drag of a conversation. Anyway, all you ever have to say is “Gawain, stop posting here”, and unlike MikeG, I’ll comply. It’s your playground, and I don’t go where I’m not wanted.

I was asking him what his point was — or at least, clarification on what I thought his point was, based on the context in which his comment appeared. I didn’t tell him to shut up and effectively call him a semi-literate embarrassment to discussion.

If you think you calmly asked him to clarify a point of discussion, then you are mistaken. He’d previously already been unreasonably snapped at for the same point for which you were unreasonably snapping at him. Which was later followed by a “oh ho, so I know where you’re really from” comment, and all of this was following a Dissenter As Enemy pattern I’ve seen way too many times to be happy about it on my own blog.

If you want to make it a “say, let’s all agree we screwed up” thing, fine. But you’re wrong.

To clarify: As he wasn’t specifically addressing any of the commenters prior to that, I’d assumed — apparently mistakenly — that he was responding to the original post. I really don’t think I flew wildly into some bizarre fantasy land of unrelated tangents or anything with that interpretation.

Anyway, considering your pissy, somewhat misinterpreting overreaction to my pissy, somewhat misinterpreting overreaction to his ambiguously-directed comment, I’d recommend we both go replace some of the panes on our respective glass houses and move along.

Anyway, thanks for the overreacting snippery — I was likely overdue for someone biting my goddamned head off over something incredibly insignificant.

Be seeing you!

Honestly, you people are embarrassing me. Please make some sort of comprehension pass before you start mouthing off at someone. Good Lord, I spend enough time railing against that on liberal blogs I read, I don’t need it here too.

Hoo boo, he called George W. Bush articulate which means he’s quite obviously either insane or deaf or has just never actually paid attention to anything over the last eight years, but Time listed him as a “Person of the Year” so he must be right and a shining beacon of rationality and intelligence for us all to look to for guiding our thoughts.

I mean, what is the point you’re trying to make, here?

But I do miss IRCing with you guys. Does anyone still hang out at #spinnwebe these days?