He hasn’t turned up because he’s horribly embarrassed at his pathetic investigative skills. searching for “Retardo Montalban Real Name”? Jesus, thats spasticated. No wonder he’s hiding. It’s a bit of a letdown to find out all this cloak and dagger superspy bollocks boils down to a google search. It reminded me that the people he’s previously outed (billmon and spartikus) had accidentally given away the relevant information themselves. He made a big deal laughing about their supposed stupidity, but it implies that like patterico he has no idea how to trace someone who hasn’t effectively told you who they are already.

I have a general policy of avoiding things written by people whose names start with “AN…”

Anne Coulter
Ann Althouse
Anne Applebaum
Ann-drew Sullivan
Ann-drew Bolt
Ann-drew Landeryou
Ann Bart*w
AnnieAngle

Exceptions:
Annie Laurie
Anntichrist S. Coulter
(You will notice that the two exceptions are both pseudonyms.)

I recommend instituting Ann(e)-’n'-Andy Profiling on a worldwide scale. I am not a nut.

Tacitus, tacitus, tacitus! There’s your invocation.

Sometimes I can spell. Other times, not so much.

I get a lot of trolls, mostly for opinions I post at my various geek sites on just how horribly horribly horrible most Modern Age comics are. I’ve discovered the best way to fight them is to moderate comments, and to ruthlessly refuse to publish anything by such idiots.

Like all of us, they live for attention; if they waste a lot of time typing something into a window and it never appears or is acknowledged in any way, they’ll lose interest and go piss in someone else’s well.

It’s always tempting, of course, to print their idiotic comments and do a whole entry burning them to the waterline, and this can work — it is especially frustrating for them when you do not let their responses be published, or acknowledge them in any way… but in general, I advocate complete starvation. When you do not feed the trolls, the trolls wander away.

That’s just my advise, but, as I say, I am a long time veteran of the Troll Wars. Take it for whatever it’s worth to you.

Honestly, I’m not all that worried about the wingnut-o-sphere. The brunt of what I write isn’t politics, and if the Dingaling Brigade wants to wade through reams of “For Better or For Worse” deconstructions and recaptioned “Family Circus”es, well that’s their perogative.

I just wish I could get rid of the troll I have now, who’s just a fuckin’ idiot.

Can they really be unaware that to the cuntfaces across the pond words like “fag” and “cuntface” spring from a different cultural milieu? Have those cuntfaces never seen Trainspotting?

Feggin’ cuntfaces.

The hardhat one was from a Marlboro ad, I think. Or maybe New England Power and Light? Or maybe the time he auditioned to replace one of the Village People? I forget.