When Negativity Might Just Pull You Through
When Negativity Might Just Pull You Through
Unlike graffiti, it’s easy to avoid the unclaimed posts on what serves as the Herald’s exchange of political thought, and even more anonymous sites passing themselves off as political commentary. Tha
Unlike graffiti, it's easy to avoid the unclaimed posts on what serves as the Herald's exchange of political thought, and even more anonymous sites passing themselves off as political commentary. That is, until friends start calling, querulous how you could write such drivel on those sites.
The latest instance was on an entirely anonymous site for the leftovers from the county's secessionist movement, property rightswingers, and other disenfranchised members of a political party coming to its senses. A site created by one of Sam Taylor's regularly featured chat room pals.
This chap, smart enough to remain everywhere nameless, seems continually to please himself by using this writer's signature initials for articles normally perfect in their complete opposition to my own views. He seems to be unable to come up with any other faceless mark to whom to attribute these writings.
His latest, which once again he attributes to an anonymous writer using the same lower case initials, “gk” with which I have routinely closed innumerable posts and e-mails to any number of friends and political correspondents, is to insult a man who will likely be a candidate for the presidency, by calling him “Osama Obama.”
To all my friends: It wasn't me!
But this is a little ironic. When I recently criticized Taylor for disparaging one of NW Citizen's writers, calling him a “gadfly”, and included a barbed re-characterization of his pal's nom de plume, Sam felt compelled to put on his little tin badge from the thought police and prevent it being seen. (though it was probably the criticism of Sam and his chat room that really irked him) Heaven forbid! We can have no “name calling.”
I'm sure Sam will continue to feature his pal along with the other ding-a-lings he counts amongst his precious page views.
One of my favorite philosophers once remarked that, “At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
Though I have long admired John McCain, and have not taken up the cause of Mr. Obama, as the character and identity of his enemies begins to show, I may just have to become one of the faithful.
The latest instance was on an entirely anonymous site for the leftovers from the county's secessionist movement, property rightswingers, and other disenfranchised members of a political party coming to its senses. A site created by one of Sam Taylor's regularly featured chat room pals.
This chap, smart enough to remain everywhere nameless, seems continually to please himself by using this writer's signature initials for articles normally perfect in their complete opposition to my own views. He seems to be unable to come up with any other faceless mark to whom to attribute these writings.
His latest, which once again he attributes to an anonymous writer using the same lower case initials, “gk” with which I have routinely closed innumerable posts and e-mails to any number of friends and political correspondents, is to insult a man who will likely be a candidate for the presidency, by calling him “Osama Obama.”
To all my friends: It wasn't me!
But this is a little ironic. When I recently criticized Taylor for disparaging one of NW Citizen's writers, calling him a “gadfly”, and included a barbed re-characterization of his pal's nom de plume, Sam felt compelled to put on his little tin badge from the thought police and prevent it being seen. (though it was probably the criticism of Sam and his chat room that really irked him) Heaven forbid! We can have no “name calling.”
I'm sure Sam will continue to feature his pal along with the other ding-a-lings he counts amongst his precious page views.
One of my favorite philosophers once remarked that, “At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
Though I have long admired John McCain, and have not taken up the cause of Mr. Obama, as the character and identity of his enemies begins to show, I may just have to become one of the faithful.
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