Blog comments seem to follow the same pattern as message boards.  Conservatives pretty much stick to the subject.  Liberals fling hate. 

One thing I've seen lately is this pissing contest between the conservative blogs and liberal blogs about how bad each others comments are.  Both sides use the argument that neither should be held responsible for "anonymous" comments left on their respective blogs.  Well, the conservatives say that more than the liberals so because liberals are more likely to point out the hateful comments on conservative blogs and ignore the hateful comments on their own.  So conservatives have been pointing them out for them.

Two things: 

Liberals don't consider even the most hateful comments on their blogs all that bad because they agree with the sentiments expressed.  If it's true, it can't be considered hateful.  Liberals really do think that way.  There is nothing bad that can be said about George W. Bush or any Republican that any liberal will read and think "ouch, that was low".  They just don't think that way.  BDS is perfectly normal to them and is a valid perspective.  So anything goes when it comes to wishing death on anybody associated with him, or the neocons.  It's a pretty good judge of the average liberal mindset that when the mans dog died some of the Bush haters still couldn't contain their glee.  Forget Dick Chaney's blood clot and Tony Snows cancer.  When you can't even summon up a little compassion for a man when his beloved dog dies, what can you be expected to show compassion for?  Oh, right.  Those poor Muslims who deliberately targeted and attacked a school and shot little kids in the back as they ran for their lives.  They were "oppressed".

Second, blog comments really are not anonymous.  Sure we don't use our real names.  But we become known by the names we do use and they are just as important in this almost make believe world.  My name, nt250, is one I've had for years.  If anyone who used to post at the IMDb message boards happens upon this blog, they will know exactly who I am.   They won't know my real name, but they'll know me.  No, our user names matter.  We are not anonymous. 

Trolls?  Depends on the blog.  I've seen slow ones and busy ones.  Not much any blog can do about trolls. But they all remind me of the message board I spent 6 years posting at..  Those user names are not just names on a screen.  You get to know who is who, and in my experience with blogs so far, the pattern is holding.

" Root Cause"

I chose that name for my blog because when I thought of what to call it those two words just kept popping into my head.  In the years since 9/11, those two words tick me off like no other.  So, since I like to vent and rant, I figured it would be a good name for a blog.

Root cause. 

There is no "root cause" that any moral, thinking, person could possibly come up with for 9/11.  Although many liberals try to.  What is wrong with people who would rather blame our president for 9/11 than blame the true culprits?  What is wrong with these people?  What is wrong with people who would rather blame Russian  "aggression" for Beslan than to blame the true culprits?  What is wrong with these people?

American Imperlialism?  What is wrong with these people?

There is something very wrong with them.  But they don't see it.  What is it with liberals that makes them so incapable of seeing their own hatred when they are so quick to see hate everywhere else they look?

I love my country.  I don't hate my president.  And that makes me a hate mongerer. 

The world has gone crazy.  Lies become truth.  Truths become lies.  It all depends on who is doing the telling.

There is only one truth I know:  People, on average, suck.