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• Wednesday, April 16, 2008 02:50 PM

  @Stellaa

  Your post starts out with an interesting division of people: editor/writers, general readers, casual commenters, and hardcore (regular and repeated) commenters.

  That's an interesting division. And you're right, the hardcore commenters (of which I am one) probably wish they could have more impact. Personally, I can imagine it would be fun to work at a place like Salon. I think it would be very challenging, and when I'm not typing furiously in response to one of Joan Walsh's or Rebecca Traister's columns, I have a lot of respect for the work that they do.

  But the rest of your post goes a little nutty-nuts on us. You okay there, Stellaa? Let me quote you:

  Stellaa: "You have demonized Hillary, the Clintons and women to name a few. Now you come here at Salon and you demonize the writers and Joan."

  You use the word "you" like everybody here is saying the same thing. A lot of people here are level-headed. There are also those who go too far. They're not just on the Obama side, though! I think it's really uncool to insist that the bad behavior is primarily committed by Obama folks. Just browse through these comments and you'll find the usual "kool aid," "messiah," "obamabots" and similar hateful comments coming from the Clintonist.....er, I mean Clinton supporters.

  Stellaa: "You sit in your privileged lives putting down others, yet you behave like the lowest common denominator. You are the mobs of Clockwork Orange, using your keyboards as the boots to kick people in the face."

  I have to laugh when you assume everybody here has "priveleged lives." I grew up dirt poor. I worked my way through college and probably never would have gone if I hadn't gotten a merit scholarship and a Pell grant. Priveleged lives? Maybe compared to people in other countries.

  As for being the mobs of "A Clockwork Orange," cool! I love lovely, lovely Ludwig Van. I've got a taste for a bit of the old Pretty Polly devotchkas and chilliwicks. Not to mention a bit of the old ultraviolence. I love lomticks of toast. But you'd better be nice or I'll tolchock your ass, real horror show. Welly welly well, me droog? See you at the Korova Milk Bar!

  Stellaa: "What did you sacrifice to stop the war? What did you risk to change this country? You put up a poster, you went to a rally, you wrote on a blog and wrote a nasty letter here. Cowards the lot of you."

  Okay, you've called us all cowards. But how are you different? What have you done? What should we have done? Joined the military to stop the war? Or what? You've blown a microchip!

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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