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I have a fan — fellow Okie blogger Jim Martin, publisher of Fried Green Onions and a number of other blogs. He apparently reads this blog often and he likes to leave me “nice” comments. He even likes to expound on his comments here with commentary on his own blog about things I have written here. Once you get past the poor grammar, his remarks both here and there are always entertaining, highlighted by fallacious and unreasoning commentary punctuated with acrid ad hominem personal attacks.

Yesterday, I published a post here entitled “Delusional Reality,” in which I was commenting on Sarah Palin’s intentional, delusional or intentionally delusional revisionism in her attempts to whitewash the historical record of the waning weeks of the presidential campaign. Mr. Martin apparently took offense to the post and responded on his own blog:

“Delusional reality: Brad Neese: Living Large and Woman-phobic”

Did you hate yo mama Brad baby or is it just that Sarah is common folk that irritates you blubber mouth? Nothing like an obese woman hater who was rejected by the chicks due to caloric intake to spread a little feminine frothing.

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In one short paragraph, this brilliant writer has packed in so much bitterness, vitriole, absurdity and ignorance that it’s hard to know where to begin, but I’ll take a stab at it. Continued

A reader named Oliver left a comment over the weekend about one of my older posts about McDonald’s iced coffee. Rather than just describing how his experience was different than the one described in the post — which, incidentally, was actually the testimony of fellow Okie blogger and friend BritGal Sarah — Oliver, in the midst of an otherwise reasonable comment, chooses to interject a disparaging remark:

Brad probably just has bad digestion and a bad metabolism from years of poor eating choices which has left him quite obviously obese.

Now, being a large man for nearly all of my life, I’m certainly not unaccustomed to insults and prejudice about being “fat” or “obese.” Certainly during my school years, other kids could be pretty cruel. But I’ve been amazed that some kids never outgrow their mean-spiritedness. Some go out of their way to insert an insult or disparaging remark into a conversation, especially when they are strangers hiding behind relative anonymity — i.e. most people don’t say it to my face; it’s been typically by email or online comments from a safe distance.

Oliver’s comment reminded me of an email I got a few years ago from a reader of a magazine that I formerly published. Continued