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How Oprah ruined the marathon

America's competitive spirit has been wrecked by feel-good amateurs like Oprah whose only goal is to stagger across the finish line.

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  • Sunday, November 4, 2007 05:24 PM

    FYI...

    Sugarman likes to brag that he's been banned from Glenn Greenwald's blog. However, that has not stopped him from posting there... (since it's not a Salon-wide ban, he can only be deleted after the fact). He continues to trash the place, which has resulted in open comment threads being closed pre-emptively, leaving only one or two of them open, and that never used to happen.

    Tonight, though, we have a first. The most recent comment thread, after having some more of sugarman's comments deleted, has also been closed, leaving GG's readers with no where to gather at all.

    Just a suggestion: you might all do well not to engage sugarman here, or elsewhere, since it's all part of a pattern with him. The occasional reasonable-sounding post, then an increasing frequency as he tries to take over the thread, and eventually some kind of meltdown, complete with scatalogical language.

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