Apologies are for wimps..

I was perhaps unfair to another person the other day. In my childish way, I tend to blame others, and suffer paranoid attacks of: “Why doesn’t this work?”, when the fault may be user error regarding computers.

There is an individual who drops by this blog occasionally. I call this person a troll, because he (?) has nothing significant to say, and his additions to the conversation are frequently so profane that he holds the record for comment deletions. I enjoy differences of opinion, and the politics of the personal attack, i.e. “you’re ugly…you’re a drug user…you're a Nazi SOB…” don’t bother me. These are the tactics of the “progressive” party, i.e. Those People. Their rhetoric, and the intellectual bankruptcy of their arguments, makes my points more succinctly than any verbiage I can summon from my limited hillbilly vocabulary. No one gets deleted because they have a point of view; that’s the purpose of blogging. I’d like to advance beyond my ten faithful readers, and become more than a mutual admiration society. I lack the intellectual capacity to provoke people into thinking beyond their personal envelopes. I hide from the real world behind the allusions of movies. When you get older, you can do this, as long as you keep the satellite bill paid.

I got locked out of my own blog the other day. UPI, and its server, sent me messages that said I am “forbidden”. I blamed my troll buddy “Liger” for this. I have been attacked before with viruses, computer worms, and unsolicited subscriptions to things varying from junk bond stock market reports to drug ads for erectile dysfunction.

I called this “the end”, and said this little corner was dead. Nope. It was maybe a technical malfunction of the server, or maybe I got confuzzled in dealing with my word verification procedure. That thing is difficult; even with new glasses; I can’t always make out the letters and type them in. I might see more comments if I dropped it as a requirement, but we need some standards.

I blamed the blog lockout on hacking by a troll. The immediate suspect was the person who posts profanity ad infinitum on my blog; Liger…one who assumes the identity and persona of a genetic hybrid of a lion and a tiger. We have become accustomed to you at ScrappleFace; if you consider yourself a representative of the liberal point of view, and have something to say, feel free to jump in. Dissension, and alternative proposals, will never be subjected to deletion.

The lockout was a server failure. I will give myself some kicks; that I blamed Liger for something that may be totally analogous. I’ll do a guilt trip for my failures, but don’t get too proud. Kids may wander in here, and while you’re free to cuss me to the ends of the earth in e-mail, I request reasonable PG-13 standards for this blog.

I feel bad that I accused Liger of hacking me and causing massive modem failure. This should not be interpreted as agreement with your POV. I am giving slack that you didn’t shut my site down. That is not the direction of reasoned discourse. Let’s boogie; let’s yell and scream.

I have a moment’s regret that I may have unfairly blamed someone for a fault of my own. Because of their politics of the personal attack, Those People are first in line to be blamed if there is a technical fault at some computer site. My UPI blog has unlocked, and maybe I am not being attacked.

We can fight and fuss all day long. If the libs have a blog, and you in particular, Liger, we’ll lay our arguments out. I have confidence that I’ll win in a debate over politics. If I am wrong for accusing you of hacking me because we disagree, then you have a real-time apology. The politics of disagreement does not include sabotage of each other’s forum.

I’ll give you a pass, that you didn’t hack me. Keep it clean, and you can call me all sorts of names on-site. If you want a cuss-fight, e-mail me and I’ll call you names that you haven’t invented yet. It’s my little corner, so I can decide the standards, and what’s right and wrong.

Jump in, if you have a POV that’ll stand analysis.
I was told to never apologize, by one of my ancestors, even if I’m wrong. I can be more gracious than my Confederate forebears. If I am wrong about someone hacking me to close down this site, then I ask forgiveness. If I am being weak, it is my fault. I do not apologize for my view of the world. If I am assigning blame without good cause, please pass unharmed by my judgment of conduct. Keep it clean, and let’s mix it up on politics, the ultimate point of view and bloodsport.