ON COMMENTS

If you follow the comments on the blog with any regularity, one thing will become undeniably clear. The conservative/Republican commenters are almost always vulgar, disgusting, hateful and misogynistic. On the liberal side, Eff25 is invariably cordial and rational, isabellah-1 is irreverant and direct, Muse, Michelle, and Frisson are both pleasant and well-informed.

But these numerous, nameless Anonymi generally have nothing of substance to say, and so where reason should be, there is only venom and vitriol. I truly do not know what happened to jay156 in childhood to turn him into the hateful freak he is now, but that kind of pathology generally arises out of an abusive and inconsistent relationship with ones mother. I imagine he also set fires, tortured animals, and wet the bed growing up.

All of this should in no way be construed as my attempting to limit or censor the commenters. I welcome each and every person who wishes to opine on the issues of the day. I just think it's interesting that, for every link a liberal provides, or every cogent argument made, it seems to be met with a conservative calling someone a cunt.

JC