I would like to add my two cents regarding the walking pile of bigoted excrement known as Zirkle: As a member of the military, I am thoroughly offended by his use of his picture of himself in his naval cadet uniform; the little puke never made it through Annapolis (as stated in his bio, he was “discharged” – a fancy term for booted – after 2 years, probably because he was spewing his ignorant crap even then), but decides to use the oh-so-patriotic image of a man in uniform to further his cause. Personally, if I ever ran into the asshole I would demand he take that pic down and stop giving the military any more black eyes than it has already received from the likes of Petraus, Lindie England, et al…

you’re kidding me, right? We’re talking about excommunication from a blog until and unless he’s willing to stop spewing his homophobic hatred. I think I could live with myself.

Geez, Louise!

Who’s supporting the fucker? I’m just saying that it’s like torturing Scalia: viscerally satisfying, sure; and in a sense, he probably has it coming, but it’s not worth what we have to do to ourselves to accomplish it.

Free speech doesn’t give you the right to walk into someone’s house and call their mother a whore.

Fighting words doctrine. No, free speech doesn’t cover walking into someone’s house and calling their mother a whore; they’re immune to prosecution if they decide to kick the cad’s ass – but that doesn’t give the state a mandate to further punish the offender, or to take up the job if the offended should fail to. Which just further supports the idea that we have to take care of this guy ourselves. The best thing I can think of is to ignore him. That’s kind why they call them trolls, yes?

Oh give me a fucking break on the “free speech” rant to support Hitlerian asswipes. Racists, homophobes and other lowlife scum are always using the free speech argument to defend their right to behave like the cretins they are without consequence. It simply doesn’t fly in real life. The only reason you get away with it on the Intertubes is because banning is discretionary and liberals are so easily persuaded to permit the asswipes among us to get away with virtual murder.

Mr. Homophobe Troll wouldn’t have a hope in hell of spewing his claptrap bullshit in public.

As for the community finding its own way of dealing with the moron, well that would be in banning him since there’s no way at this time to reach through the screen and wring his scrawny fucking neck.

Zirkle took his vorpal wang in hand:
Longtime the manxome foe he sought–
So rested he by the Nazi tree
In lecherously slathern’ thought.

And plying Uffish thought to his wood,
The Jewporn, with its eye aflame,
Came wiffling through the tulgey ‘nets,
And skeeted as it came.

In a land far off out in the east
The land of the Dee Vorse aids
They produce the tools of the beast
That tempt the Western Maids

mikey, I picture your vibrator repair shop with a series of Burma Shave-type signs leading in for twenty miles in all directions.

Free speech doesn’t give you the right to walk into someone’s house and call their mother a whore. HAAM can take his free speech rights to the street corner like every other babbling loon, but there’s nothing unconstitutional about kicking his cretinous ass out of a venue where he’s made it clear he has no desire to be welcomed.

And as this is the second time I’ve typed this, fuck WordPress too.

I do not like you in a chair
Sitting in mom’s basement there.
I do not like your trackback spam
I do not like you, haam-I-am.

When you vent with your full throat
I wish to sink you in a boat.
You’re not amusing, you’re not a ham
You really bore me, haam-I-am.

If they ban you, shut you up
I would not cry, not in a cup.
Not in a car or on a tram
I would not miss you, haam-I-am.

It’s the community’s job to take care of the fucker, not S,N!’s. How can we deal with this in a way that doesn’t compromise the idea of free speech in action here?

BRAVO!!!!

And I fully add my voice to the ban haam chorus. I understand and generally agree with the non-moderation policy of the site, but I can’t honestly see a reason to continue indulging this moron.

I’m sure he gets a right good giggle shaking all the way down through his shriveled testes everytime he sees his name in the thread, self-affirming his status as oh-so-witty-and-edgy-and-un-PC. If he’s a parody, he’s not funny, and as such is a failure and needs not be tolerated. If he actually wanted to discuss or debate anything with anyone here, he wouldn’t be hiding behind such an infantile and inflammatory screen name.

I was wondering when that was going to happen.

Although I quite like this nick and may keep it if it’s allowed…

In humble thanks for this post, kindly allow me to buy you a drink at the next SF Drinking Sadly (or whatever the bleep it’s called).