I Have a Lot of Problems With You People, and Now You're Gonna Hear All About It!

Festivus is today. But when it comes to some topics, the pole is up year round, here.

Truth be told, I don't have a lot of problems with folks on this blog. I did have to put on full-time comment moderatinn a few years ago to rein in the most active bomb-throwers and those who believe that personal invective is an adequate substitute for reason. They'd kick off a mini-flamewar before I came by with the extinguisher. Most of them have gotten the hint and gone off to haunt other lightly-used corners of the Internet, but a few persisten morons keep trying.

Which is funny, in a way. The ones who have made it to the Banhammer List, well, I don't read their stuff. I see their name in the list of comments and delete them. So I hope they're writing long screeds and wasting their time yelling into a vacuum. (But don't worry. Elsewhere, a copy is saved in case po-po involvement is called for.)

In the meantime, Operation Cleanup is underway for Monday's shindig and Festival of Keeping the Retail Industry Afloat.

Speaking of that, every year, I hear the conservatives whining about "keeping Christ in Christmas". I'd be more impressed if they didn't, as the Pope has mentioned, limit their Christianity to matters between the navel and the knees. It doesn't take much to see that it's a safe bet that Jesus would be horrified by most of his self-styled adherents, who use his name to justify greed, unkindness and killing.

So yes, I have a problem with them.