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Name = Eric
Email = eric.engberg@verizon.com
Comments = Waaaaah....waaah, I'm going to tell Bernie you hit me. Can't you take the slightest criticism -- over repetitiveness and being boring -- without running to Bernie?

What a wuss/

I liked your piece on gay marriage in Massachusetts and Barbra Streisand. But do you still think that Howard Dean is the inevitable nominee in 2004? What a dolt you are.

My, my, my...how adult of you. I'd like to say I expected better, but somehow I knew it would come to this. Your predictability disappoints me.

I notice you can't refute anything, so you reduce yourself to name calling. That's a pretty common tactic for someone who can't provide any substantive argument or defense of their position. I take some comfort that the stereotype again proves true.

I can take the criticism just fine. In fact, I receive more detailed and even constructive criticism from readers all the time. Even in the non-constructive criticism, I get called worse by people far better. I can take the "slightest criticism," but apparently you can't.

You know, since you're showing up out at my site a fair amount, I can invite you to beta test the new version if you like. I mean, I always like to get feedback from experienced users and...well...you're practically a regular now. Hopefully you're using Verizon's DSL, because their dial-up is SO slow.

That's facetiousness, in case you missed it. I mean, you might not have had your "great b.s. detector" turned on.

You seem to have a tough time looking at dates, so allow me to be of some help. As you'll no doubt recall, at the time that particular blog on Howard Dean was written just about everybody on the planet thought he'd be the nominee...and I was no exception.

I guess I'd rather be a dolt than an outright hypocrite.

In case you are fuzzy on the details, a hypocrite is "a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue." Like, say...a retired reporter who writes a column stating that blogs are a fad akin to the CB radio and then, one short year later, shows up posting on a blog. Color me reactionary, but I might
know someone who fits that description.

Breaker 1-9, good buddy. We got ourselves a convoy. (That's a little CB lingo, in case you missed out on the fad in your relentless pursuit to report the facts.)

I don't need to run to anyone to deal with you. I've got facts on my side and you don't seem to be interested in even attempting to refute them. I submit to you that it's because you can't. You'd rather call me a wuss and a dolt, but you've yet to point out where I'm wrong---and I don't mean about
Howard Dean, either.

Yeah...my "b.s. detector" went off from the moment I saw your blog. Good to see that it's working just fine.