I understand why a lot of sites require registration before readers can comment, but it’s lame to turn off comments altogether. I’m an adversarial guy, and I like to swing back when people swing at me. In the example cited above, Tim Merritt cited a sentence from my last post, which read:

So, bravo to the Republicans for once again out-thinking the Democrats.

Tim responded:

How did they out-think them, and on what issue? They made it harder for folks to vote in runoff elections.

That was just about the whole post, minus a “follow this link” sentence. Since comments are closed on his site, I’ll respond here, only in a less tactful and respectful way than I would have otherwise: try reading the next sentence in that post. It went like this:

While Dems were all hopping up and down, mad as hell about the bill’s potential to affect a small percentage of voter rights (as it may or may not have), the real point of the bill passes through virtually unabated.

I was complimenting their strategy, not their policy. Do I need to start breaking posts down into two-syllable words? Fourteen word per sentence limits? Three sentences or less per paragraph? Flowcharts? Bar graphs? Is this better?

Graph

Maybe I’ll start a new blog where I don’t even use words, just pictures. Then the chance of me being quoted out of context and not being allowed to respond would be eliminated entirely. That graph would have been more accurate if I’d put question marks by the two donkeys, since the Dems have added a whole lot of jackshit to the debate besides “this bill sucks!” Christ, I suppose the graph needs a footnote somewhere to tell people elephant means Republican and donkey means Democrat.