Pandagon's readers, in an effort to prove their intellectual superiority, have taken to leaving expletive-laden comments on this blog, in violation of the comments rules posted at left.
I have almost never quelled genuine intellectual discourse in this blog's comments. (I say almost never because it could be argued that, during the Schiavo case, I deleted some comments that were of the "let her die with dignity" variety. However, I did warn commenters in advance that I was ultra-sensitive about that particular topic and not in the mood for pro-homicide arguments.) Regular readers know that I don't delete or ban commenters for disagreeing—only for being disagreeable. Commenters visiting via Pandagon or any other blog are welcome to take me or other commenters to task, provided they do so observing the rules, which are perfectly reasonable and simple enough for a kindergartener to understand.
Break the rules and you may not be caught right away. Your pithy little f-words may hang in the Web's ether for hours, shocking all the white-bread, uptight, Midwestern sticks-in-the-mud whom you assume comprise this blog's fan base.
But I will see your doo-doo pee-pee wee-wee witticisms when I check my comments. And I will ban you. And if a ban doesn't work, I will continue to whitewash your excremental fingerpaint designs wherever they turn up.
To the vast majority of commenters who are polite, thank you for your cooperation. Please do not feed the animals.
*A term which I still, with Anne Frank-like optimism, believe is not necessarily redundant.
