My Tyrannical New Comments Policy

After some careful consideration I have decided to enable moderated comments on this blog. This will be of interest to various other bloggers, geeks, agitators, smart alecks, pinheads and loudmouths who have begged, in the past, for the opportunity to deface this website with their so-called opinions.

But this is not a democracy. This is tyranny.

Profane, idiotic or repetitive comments won't be tolerated. Nor will diatribes that contain the latest partisan factoids from Kos or Malkin, replete with trite verbiage about "wingnuts" or "demon-crats" or "cryptofascists". Rants about Bush-Iraq will very likely be deleted on sight, unless you have something magically original to say - which you won't, in all likelihood. Many posts won't have comments enabled whatsoever. And don't expect me to "debate" you with endless back-and-forth commentary. I simply don't have the time. If you feel that strongly about anything I say get a Blogger account - it takes about a minute - and then you can type away to your hearts content and invent all kinds of clever fictitious names for yourself.

People who contribute thoughtfully will be allowed more leeway over time, and occasionally I may allow some high-spirited discussion with sparks a-flying, but this will be the exception not the rule.

If we are living amidst a culture that has, in the worlds of the great Democrat Patrick Moynihan, "defined deviancy down" - then we have also defined "rights" upwards well past the point of sanity. Some people claim the right to sputter the most nasty, vulgar, nonsensical speech in an anonymous way in any setting imaginable. You are hereby denied that right in this forum.

Other than that - I welcome your feedback.