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You know, I had a rough day at work. I typed that last post just before walking out the door today around noon.

I wondered all day just what kind of responses it would engender.

Well, I've got to tell you, it really does my heart good to see that I could be the catalyst in the budding phase of this beautiful relationship you guys have developed.

There's an image in my head that just about sums it all up for me. Something I saw in a movie ... what was it now?

Oh, Yes! It was the scrawl across Col. Kurtz's diary in the movie "Apocalypse Now!" If I have it correctly, it said something like:

"Exterminate Them!"

About every two years I get one of these, and they are quite fun. Most are people's inadequate attempts to avoid admitting that they have been assuming huge amounts of information based on nothing more than some prejudice they have about some particular word somebody used, and they quit reading after that and just posted what they thought was meant because of that one word they read. Very sad really. They start shouting and screaming invectives about people, and usually melt down entirely rather than ever just reading the post and seeing what was said. Like you they start foaming at the mouth and demanding that somebody is actually a secret Democrat. Paranoid, obviously, and probably from some distant memories of McCarthyism (they seem most often to be rather ancient), but for whatever reason they are angry, bitter and invariably confused. They accuse randomly, which is both sad and funny, and the accusations never bear on the posts. I will post "Alabama is nice in the fall" and they come back with the hilariously malapropos rejoinder "How disgusting you would promote homosexual marriage and pornography on a conservative forum, you dirty..." blah, blah, blah. It rarely varies, and unfortunately becomes tedious.

And therein lies the rub. I consider it rude to interrupt a conversation, and I always view these things as conversations. I would be wise to recognise that the person on the other end is probably not taking their medicine any longer, and just drop it. I can't convince anyone who doesn't read the post or understand the very obvious meanings in them that they are tilting at windmills of their own conception. But, for some reason I will keep responding even though the other person clearly has bats in their belfry, so to speak. Dotty, if you follow the idiom. A nutter. Well, anyway, I will keep posting when they appear in my pings, and it goes on and on, and nowhere because they just want to show off their new little epithet, most of which are hardly impressive or even new. Dhimmitude, Paulestinian, muzzie, demonrat, or whatever it is they think they can sneak in in some way. I don't guess they realise how lame this is, and childish, but probably at their advanced age they want to seem young and stylish. They come off like petulant schoolchildren posting on the DailyKos, where they all use these made-up insults. Probably things like Re-pubic-ans or the like. All exceedingly young, and oh so cool. Or, as the kids are saying, neato daddy-o.

So, anyway, good luck to you. You obviously have needs. I can't help you with that. I will just say you are still dead wrong, and homosexual marriage is evil. And pornography is not a conservative idea, and if you want to promote it do it to somebody else, and quit trying to convince me. You are just wrong.

Peace out, daddy-o.