December 07, 2005

You know who you are

It came to my attention last night that a certain commenter and fellow blogger took offense to my reply the other day. This blogger in turn went to her blog, linked to the post, and took on the victim role, as I seemingly attacked her and her "inocuous comment."

I'm not going to dignify this person by linking to her blog. Just acknowledging this whole thing gives her too much ammo. Any interested readers can link to her by going to this post from Sunday, December 4.

Yeah, I'll admit I served a low blow by referring to her recent personal issues, but at least I tried to respect her privacy by not actually going into detail. She can talk about it openly if she wants, but I wasn't going to get as nasty as I really wanted to.

Why get nasty? Well, when someone comes over here and throws out the word "idiot" my dander is raised. To throw that out there in such a fashion, what was I to think? Am I an idiot? Are the others who comment here idiots? That's how I took it, and I don't really want anyone to come along and disrespect my blog friends.

And let's not forget that said commenter got the nasty ball rolling when she came over here and basically called me fat and stupid. But I realize that does not excuse my behavior.

So I'll be the adult here and apologize for my nasty and uncalled for referral in my comment.

I would like to point out, however, that this commenter seems to lay in wait. I can post for weeks on end about my silly little life, but as soon as I get the least little bit provocative in my subject matter there she is. I feel that I was baited with her "idiot" comment, and she knows that she touches nerves with me. It's as if she takes some kind of perverse pleasure in riling me up and then turning my words against me.

"Look at the overreacting neo-con Rethuglican Chunky McHappyHalliburton lover! Ha ha ha!"

So be it. I'm not going to start deleting comments or banning, it's a free country, and despite the fact that I've told her over and over to just GO THE HELL AWAY she keeps coming back.

Okay, fine. Read my posts, comment all you want. Frankly I'm sick of it all. I went over to your blog and posted what I thought were some very nice and understanding comments regarding your personal issues, because, as I said, I unfortunately had some experience with that. And you for that matter read my very personal post regarding the death of my father and actually said nice things. But then you turn around...

I'm not as forgiving as you seem to be.

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