As pointed out by several in email, Daniel Fincke, whose last actual direct conversation with me consisted of a defense of his “Chris Christie is fat hur hur” jokes on Facebook some months ago, provides me with an opportunity to clarify something: Also, I will note that where Chris Clarke completely unfairly attacked civility on …
Category Archive: Bloggery
Feb 19 2013
Another coup for FtB
Our latest, newest, bestest addition to the stable (so new he hasn’t even had time to post anything yet!) is Eric MacDonald of Choice in Dying. I’d tell you all to go say hello but you might want to wait a bit until he has something more relevant than the generic “Hello world!” post in …
Feb 19 2013
Around FtB
Just a warning: if you only visit the sites that I describe with the word “sex”, all future editions of Around FtB will have to have the subjects of all the blogs twisted to be sexual. Don’t make me have to do that. So, Stephen, is your message that conservatives aren’t as negative about oral …
Feb 10 2013
I am asked a question about commenting
I know you’re all tired of him, but NoelPlum99 is a sincere troll, so I’ll actually answer him, despite the fact that his sincerity is really just a side effect of self-absorption. So he asks in a video, where all the dissenters are (why in a video, I don’t understand; isn’t this a case where …
Feb 08 2013
A quick desert bobcat-related note
A few days back my neighbor Teddy Quinn asked me if I’d be willing to provide a minute or so of audio on the whole “bobcat trapping in Joshua Tree” issue I mentioned this week. Said audio would be aired on his new project, Radio Free Joshua Tree, a community podcast. He asked me for …
Feb 06 2013
A reminder for commenters in difficult threads
We’ve just had a difficult comment thread revive itself both on the original post of mine and in the Thunderdome, and a commenter central to both threads said something that I thought deserved pointing up. Note: I don’t do so to make that commenter feel bad: for the purpose of this thread, I’d like to …
Feb 05 2013
Around FtB
Like always, all those other people on this network have been busy. Chris finds that David Barton stole one of his anecdotes from a Louis L’Amour novel. It figures, that guy can’t tell fiction from history. Stephen discusses a Justice Department memo that exposes how our government really wants to use drones. The Digital Cuttlefish …
Feb 05 2013
Wretched troll is also self-interested troll
In case you were wondering why Vox Day is trolling the heck out of John Scalzi (other than the known fact that Vox is a hateful human being who trolls in the same way he takes a dump: regularly and pungently), all is now made clear. Scalzi is the current president of the Science Fiction …
Feb 03 2013
Toe stuck back in the water
Hey all. I’ve been more quiet than usual around these parts for a couple weeks for a couple reasons, so I thought I’d re-enter Hordespace by giving an update on a few things that have happened since I last said something substantive around here. (That last straight line is my gift to you.)
Feb 03 2013
Stupid is as stupid does
One of the points made in that discussion yesterday is sometimes the “trolls” are just people trying to make an argument contrary to our own, and that they should have a right to express themselves; I was also told that dismissing disagreement as stupid or wrong was a prejudicial value judgement. I would agree that …
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