“I assume you use a pseudonym like everyone else and your real name is something like Wesley Butkis. How many Bob Murphys are in the phone book?”

Those, sir, are fighting words. I dare you to call someone a liar to their face.

“Roy sounds like he’s old, cranky and in pain. I wonder if he’s also self-medicating”

What can I say, Dear Nahncee? Personal ad hominen attacks without provocation do not a rational, mature person make.

Regards,
Roy

Old Fogey – change your name. I was thinking this morning that hurling the epithet “old!” is now the same sort of insult as “stupid!” or “fat!” used to be. And I wonder why and how being perceived as being “old!” has attained the same level of denunciation as “pedophile!”, for example. In any case, naming yourself “old” just detracts immediately from your arguments and does give unnecessary ammunition to the frothing moonbats you’re lamenting about on other sites.

That was not a hissy-fit. What I would like to do is drag him out of his hole and thrash him. I’m 65 and not in the best of shape but I’ll give him the first punch free. Somehow I suspect he’d use that opportunity to go elsewhere.

He is a pretentious bigot who hurls vile insults at people from behind the curtain of anonymity. I’ve mixed it up with the best of them – men. I know all the common ones in six languages. Men – not juvenile coffee house philosophers who wax poetic about Socrates and compose haiku whilst rolling a joint.

What I have learned, from painful experience, is that you can call someone every name in the book except one – liar. That one’s going to get you some loose teeth every time.

He is not a troll. He is something much worse – a deranged college dropout.

Regards,
Roy

“Combine a child’s response to serial abandonment with the perspective of an outsider, and Obama became an alien species against which American politics had no natural defenses.

He is a Third World anthropologist profiling Americans, in but not of the American system. No country’s politics depends more openly on friendships than America’s, yet Obama has not a single real friend, for he rose so fast that all his acquaintances become rungs on the ladder of his ascent.
One human relationship crowds the others out of his life, his marriage to Michelle, a strong, assertive and very angry woman.

If Novak’s report is accurate, then Michelle’s anger will have lost the election for Obama, as Achilles’ anger nearly killed the Greek cause in the Trojan War. But the responsibility rests not with Michelle, but with Obama.

“Obama’s failure of nerve at the cusp of his success is consistent with my profile of the candidate, in which I predicted that he would self-destruct. It’s happening faster than I expected. As I wrote last February: ‘It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama … Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama’s father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals.’ By all rights, the Democrats should win this election. They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate
—
Obama succumbed to the character weakness I described in a February 26 profile of (Obama’s women reveal his secret).
His peculiar dependency on an assertive and often rancorous spouse, I argued, made him vulnerable, and predicted that Obama
“will destroy himself before he destroys the country”

Even Wretch’s trolls are brighter and better behaved than most.

Take a serious columnist like Michael Barone and each column is followed by cursing drivel from commenters.

Is there some sort of screening that isn’t obvious when you make a comment?

The little hissy-fit between Roy and Life stands out because they occur so seldom.

I have been amazed about this for a long time but it only seemed pertinent today.

Flares into Darkness Heeeeeeeeeere’s Charlie!