An aside: Dr. BLT exhibits two traits of a troll — an excessive number of rather monotone posts and devoting the posts to berating other posters. However, his posts are rather short and not utterly repetitious. Is there some established terminology for troll-human hybrids?

I guess that as conservatives go, Reynolds is moderate. He muses about genocide 5 years from now “if provoked” rather than “nuke the bastards now”. Similarly, more hardcore nuts muse longingly about terrorists attack directed at San Francisco and NYT, rather than some unspecified European targets. If the 5th column gets decimated, that would be a good thing.

However, I think that the idea that someone is “objectively pro-” deserves some thought. Some folks, Instapundit included, are objectively pro-fascist. If we should wage an effective war and the free press is making it impossible, we should shut it down as a failed experiment — as it was done recently in Iran. Then we should take care of the leftist bloggers and 50,000 dangerous professors (David Horowitz is compiling a data base). There would be some resistance, but nothing that could not be cured by detaining, say, a million of dangerous folks in some facilities, say Reform Institutions for Unlawful Combatants, RIFUCs?

Also, I am deeply offended that someone saw fit to copy my Anoymous identity (Over the line Mr. A), and indignantly request that he or she self-copulate. Posted by: Major Woody

For the record, I was “over the line” Anonymous (the one near to my last post waaay up there), by accidental dint of not typing my name. I will take Major Woody’s advice under advisement. Posted by: MCH

And remember everyone, self-copulation is only recommended for those of us with sufficient practice and experience; kids, don’t try this at home!

I would like to invite you to join our secret society, MCH. You appear to have all the right stuff to be a member of our occult and ancient order, the Anonymati. You will receive a coded message in the mail, cryptically addressed to “Occupant”

You don’t have to call me, “Dr.” Anne. I’ve dropped that from my screen name because people here were offended.

Just call him “Bruce, Almighty.”

You should ask if the folks he labeled “fascist hatemongers” think he is a “civilized” blogger — especially since, in his rather muted correction of the charge, he neglected to either acknowledge that his characterization was wrong or apologize for the smear.

Of course, he then turned around and accused me of a “tendency to hurl unsubstantiated charges of racism” for observing, in the same vein, Reynolds’ propensity to cast terrorism primarily as the purview of brown-skinned foreigners or left-wing radicals. As I pointed out at the time, this isn’t necessarily racist (which, by definition, includes a hateful element) but it certainly is a potentially lethal blind spot.

But then we’ll have to find a new troll!

[sobbing]

They don’t come here, you know — you guys just keep paddlewheeling them until they run screaming off into the night…

Where are we going to find another…?

People are dying left and right as a direct result of the actions of the Bush Administration. We have illegally invaded a soveriegn nation, obliterated their infrastructure, and fomented a potential civil war.

There have been over 20,000 U.S Casualties to date, and Iraq’s killed number anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000, depending on what source you believe.

We have spent upwards of 500 billion dollars and have absolutely nothing of real, tangible value to show for it.

And yet here comes doc blt, whose main concern is not the validity of the invasion, not the inadequate equipment given to our soldiers, not the countless dead innocent civilians, not even the blood and treasure paid by America, no. BLT is more concerned with the civility of blog commenters.

Yawn.

Nah. It’s the flip side of thanking Jesus for winning a football game: nobody ever says “We were doing great until Jesus made me fumble.”

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m now operating under various other screen names, most will be obvious. My biggest reason for alternating screen names is that I have a low boredom tolerance. I go on this site “voluntarily” because people like you, who obviously don’t like me, have a basic respect for fellow human beings and will not stoop so low as to resort to puerile, adolescent bullying tactics, vulgarity, and the like, to try and get rid of me. People like you restore my faith in liberalism. I also have some faith in some residual aspects of conservativism, and though I’m commonly marginalized as a troll (I title I don’t necessarily object to), I’m actually just a wanderer in search of middle ground.

I read on This Site that Dr. BLT secretly funded communist Aryan Nation child-porn rings in North Korea through internet song sales. This is exactly the sort of thing that Republicans do all the time. This is troubling, if true.

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Nothing here is objectionable to you, right? It’s courteous, isn’t it? It’s not even [b]UNTRUE[/b]. I don’t even ACCUSE YOU of anything, I just say I “read” something somehwhere, and it’s JUST THE SORT OF THING you would do. I don’t even accuse REPUBLICANS of doing anything. Heck, I even say it MIGHT NOT BE TRUE right there in the post.

Now add to that hypocrisy. Add to that lies. Add to that ad hominem attacks (free of words like “assrocket” and “cunt,” but “traitor” is still an insult). Insty be bad, end o’ story.

That would be our present Secretary of Defense.