Also, iirc, Bitter’s a NRA instructor? Do you do the basic pistol class anyway/interested in doing one? I want to get my first handgun (paperwork should be incoming), but I have NO idea what I want, and I need more than AC’s hour of “hey, this stuff is fun!” to know what I’m looking at. :)

Thanks for what you’ve done, and I hope you return.

Love the food blogging at your own place, BTW.

“Were that true, Caleb, I would have photo-shopped a picture of Sebastian hanging from a lamp post. Sebastian is not the problem. Sebastian represents a type of human response to impending events that is typical throughout history.” – Mike Vanderboegh

“Yes, I will stop posting here because when one person goes so far as to say that when Sebastian becomes a problem, he will start posting photoshops of him dangling from a lamppost, just because I pointed out the actual duties of RNC position, that’s beyond reasonable and sane. At that point, there is no conversation to be had.” – Bitter

1) MBV didn’t say he ‘will’, he used the conditional here. Are you suggesting that when a reader misses the author tag it’s deliberate, but it’s OK for you to miss the verb tense? This isn’t DooT, or Volokh Conspiracy, where it’s well known that there are multiple authors. The vast majority of postings here are written by Sebastian, and citing a small percentage of guests as a reason to look at a greyed-out bit of copy doesn’t really fly. It’s not coincedental that folks tend to use “Sebastian”, “SIH”, and “Snowflakes” interchangably. This doesn’t happen when a blog is known to be regularly multi-authored.
2) This all dates back to the day that Sebastian chose to make an issue of the now-famous Letter To The Editor that Mr. Vanderboegh wrote. “Ye reap as ye sow” and all that. This was a pretty laid-back place before that, as I’m sure you remember. When you call people names and generally impugn them, you cannot really be shocked, shocked I tell you, when they respond in kind. No, it’s not at all ‘adult’ or ‘mature’, but people will be people.

Since combining your initials results in “S&B”, I have to ask what kind of ammo you use :)

Yes, I will stop posting here because when one person goes so far as to say that when Sebastian becomes a problem, he will start posting photoshops of him dangling from a lamppost, just because I pointed out the actual duties of RNC position, that’s beyond reasonable and sane. At that point, there is no conversation to be had. That crosses any level of civil discourse, and it was clearly framed to insult Sebastian just to insult him as opposed to having a real discussion about the nature of the RNC post and whether or not individual positions matter.