THE PETULANT, THE GADFLY, THE ANONYMOUS
We love anonymous comments, especially when they are actual people rather than blog bots. We have one anonymous reader who is a real pistol. From the sound of it, the reader:1. Hates Walberg.
2. Is critical of the small things (i.e., tags on blog entries).
3. Has a journalistic eye for distinctions the "man on the street" would gloss over without a second glance (i.e., State Reps are not Congressman).
4. Isn't one for making good first impressions... unless, of course, petulance is a virtue.
We don't think that it would require Sherlock Holmes to unravel this mystery, but our hope is that Anonymous will do us a favor by gracing us with a name...
PS- Thank you for the criticism. As you will see, we made the appropriate changes wherever we were able. Once again, thanks.
Labels: Anonymous, Bannister and Sutherby, Battle Creek, blog, Jeremiah Bannister, TV
posted by Paleocrat at Sunday, July 15, 2007
2 Comments:
Point by point, here we go:
1. Hate is a powerful emotion which I do not feel for Congressman Walberg. I dislike some of his actions, which betray his conservative campaign, specifically on the points of earkmarks and him bailing out on the conservative immigration team, as I explained in one post.
2. and 3. You are making two points with the same example. Small things are important. And, if your tags are to be useful, they should be correct. If I search for "Congress," I'm not looking for Mike Nofs or the Michigan Legislature. You should strive for accuracy even with small things.
4. Insulting someone as petulant is an odd way to coax me out of my anonymous shell. I was neither contemptuous nor irritable. If I am to take you seriously, I'd hope for a better response than an insult in a reply. And, the odds of me opening myself to more of the same in public are nil unless you show a little more respect to those who hold differing opinions.
PS--You are welcome.
2:54 PM
Oh, yeah, the gadfly comment. I guess I assumed I had a cursory understanding of the term. I googled it.
Here is what I found on Wikipedia:
"Gadfly" is a term for people who upset the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempt to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
The term "gadfly" was used by Plato to describe Socrates' relationship of uncomfortable goad to the Athenian politician scene, which he compared to a slow and dimwitted horse. It was used earlier by the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 46 of his book. The term has been used to describe many politicians and social commentators.
During his defense when on trial for his life, Socrates, according to Plato's writings, pointed out that dissent, like the tiny (relative to the size of a horse) gadfly, was easy to swat, but the cost to society of silencing individuals who were irritating could be very high. "If you kill a man like me, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me," because his role was that of a gadfly, "to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth."
So I am two out of three, who knew?
7:40 PM
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