MY BLOG

A place where I tell you what I think and you can tell me what you think about what I think (but not what you think about what my other readers think)...I think.

There is an interesting string of comments on my post about Reality TV part one.

In it, an anonymous commenter made a comment to which I commented.

Then, an also anonymous commenter, came to the defense of the previous anonymous commenter.

I, of course, commented on all the comments, plus a few that had not even been made.

If there is one thing I hate (sorry if that's not a gentle enough word) it is anonymous commenters.

I never, ever leave their comments in my comments section, except when I do.

Which is probably as often as I delete them.

Maybe some commenters choose to remain anonymous because they don't have a blog and just happened by to read mine and commented on it.

Maybe they're just lilly-livered, yellow-bellied sap-suckers.

(The Yellow-bellied Sap-sucker, for the uninitiated, is a type of woodpecker.)

(Lilly-livered, on the other hand, just sounds neat.)

It could have been worse.

I could have called them a "fawning, earth-vexing, fustilarian ," but that might not have been considered nice.

I was actually reprimanded for not having been gentle enough in my response to anonymous commenter number one.

To which my response is, in the words of a famous cave-man, "Uh....what?"

Let me explain.

See, I take only Jesus seriously.

I do not take me seriously.

I do not take you seriously.

For the most part, the world just needs to lighten up and get a life.

We do not need to be offended on others' behalfs.

They will, no doubt, be offended on their own any time they want to be.

Especially if they spend much time on my blog.

The thing is, this blog is read all over the world.

Granted, only one person from each quadrant of the globe reads it, but still...that's all over the world...isn't it?

But the good news is nobody HAS to read it.

Why read something that offends you or that you think offends someone else?

There is too much to do in life to go around getting offended by various blogs.

After all, you are not going to "set anyone straight" (least of all, me) with your comments.

And, contrary to popular belief, my blog is not a democracy.

You have an absolute right to your opinion.

You do not have an absolute right to express it on my blog.

I practice censorship.

I censor foul language, stupidity (although one might make the case that I also practice same), and whatever else I feel like censoring.

It is downright un-American.

But then, so are some of my readers. They are from Great Brittain, Australia, New Dehli, and Old Amsterdam.

So read away, if you like.

If you don't like...just go away.

And remember: I may seem rough around the edges. You may think I am a pompous twit. Some people actually don't like me (snif-snif).

But I'm really a very loving, lovable, laid-back, easy-going, soft-spoken, life-loving, fun-having, smart-allically old grump.

My wife tells me I'm nuts.

I tell her, "Always keep that in mind."