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A writer for "progressive" Mother Jones grew up in a rich bubble neighborhood, a stone's throw from Ross Perot? Not a struggling working class neighborhood or a hard-luck ghetto? Imagine my surprise.

Apparently the author is a private school brat who kept away from the very-diverse public schools which serve Preston Hollow (which he doesn't mention). Sort of destroys his credentials, doesn't it?

Phew, I'm glad that I didn't grow up in one of those capitalist dungeons on Strait Lane or have wealthy parents. That kind of gilded, oppressive childhood would cause deep psychic trauma that could only be healed by writing Bush-bashing articles for slick liberal magazines.

Wow, the (only?) comment after that article kicks much ass. "Collin C": love ya, whoever you are.

RoB, the original UnFair Park flame thrower. The facts escape him so he attacks.

I thought thats how you liked it? Oops, I forgot, its ok when YOU do it. Got cha.

I am optioning it as a treatment for Bottle Rocket II: What About Bob?

Toots, this is for you -- everyone else should probably skip it.

RoB, the original UnFair Park flame thrower. The facts escape him so he attacks.

Look, if I think someone is full of it, I say so, and if people think I'm full of it, they say so. I've never claimed to be a Boy Scout, but if I've ever attacked you with the equivalent of "BaconAss," let's see it. As to lack of facts or specific points in arguments, you might want to go back and read your own comments and see how much of that you can find, but that's not the main point.

Up until somewhere around the end of 2008 as far as I can tell, you were the worst offender that I'm aware of on Unfair Park for flat-out nasty, curse-filled, in-your-face name-calling and personal attacks. I didn't count how many times you called me "BaconAss" and other juvenile names, and I just "considered the source" and rolled my eyes at it. Remember, at one point, Wilonsky actually threatend to delete your postings unless you stopped the name-calling. I'm not aware of anyone else here who's gotten such a warning. But now, you've assumed this new persona where you immediately act sanctimonious if anyone criticizes anyone who you agree with, constantly complaining about "personal attacks" and accusing people of "hypocrisy."

So I just gotta ask: (1) what happened to cause this change, (2) are you now admitting that your former behavior was childish and rude, since you now seem to have such a strong reaction to far milder versions of such behavior in others and (3) are you therefore going to apologize for all the times you personally attacked me? Or are you totally in orbit and denying that you ever made any personal attacks on me? In other words, do you realize that your new position is utterly hypocritical given your past behavior?

Please understand that my reason for asking these questions is not that I actually want an apology from you -- I'm just curious as to how you're able to maintain this high a level of cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy. It's like watching someone who used to be a raging alcoholic suddenly drying up but going around yelling "drunk!" at anyone they see drinking a beer.

RoB, you will get an apology from me when YOU apologize to those you have degraded trying to say they had mental problems, were stupid, etc. Or better yet, have you apologized to Jim for your out of line comments you posted in his personal recolection of Mr. Crow? I seemed to remember you made an ass out of yourself. I didn't have to help you either. Jim gave you the dental floss and you hung yourself with it.

I have never seen a person on a comment board cry about being called a name and I have been on a few. You cried to Robert about it! What are you like in person? My God, RoB its the internet! If you don't like reading my comments then be a grown up and don't read them, don't respond. Its THAT easy.

I stopped using "BaconAss" because I moved on, not because Robert "threatened" me. What a joke. If that was the case he would have deleted the other posts where I used the term "BaconAss".

So, to summerize;
I will not apologize to you, you grow what you sow, buddy.
If I feel the urge to call you "BaconAss" again I will.
Grow up. Stop being a baby.

Sorry Scott, you are just too nice.......and smart.

Toots, you poor thing, are you having problems with reading comprehension?

So I take it the next time that I harshly criticize you or someone else (and I don't use foul language or make up names for people like you did for so long), you won't immediately start complaining about "personal attacks" -- because only a "baby" would do that, right? And you can't say you've "moved on" and then say that you might start with the name-calling again if you feel like it, right? You can't have it both ways. Nice try, but you're the one who's been hoisted by their own petard.

Go ahead and have the last word if you like, because I've had my say and I've already wasted far too much time on you anyway. Happy ankle-biting, Toots.

Toots, do you not realize... every time you write something, you take the collective wind out of this entire board? I said it once but I'll say it again... you are UnfairPark’s annoying little puppy dog that won't quit yapping. Worse yet, you're a hypocrite of the highest order, and you waffle more than a f'ing IHOP. But sadder still is this...you and your stuff is just boring, sad and unimaginative. Contrary to what you might believe, you’ve never won a single argument in here, and I mean never. You just look foolish, kinda like Billy Barnacle and a few others. Please do everyone (yourself included) a favor and go play in a different sandbox.

"waffle more than a f'ing IHOP."

Just an innocent observation here, but wouldnt that be pancaking more than f'ing IHOP?

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Everytime toots hijacks a thread, people quit posting on the subject, anyone else ever notice that?

Everytime toots hijacks a thread, people quit posting on the subject, anyone else ever notice that?

Yes.

Well, to get us back on track, we were talking about Mother Bush keeping up with the Jones' or something like that.