I’ve been running this blog for over five years now, and I’m getting tired. Moreover, I realize that Brian Swiderski and others are right–I’ve been letting the Bushies pull the wool over my eyes for too long. There is no difference between the fascist theocrats in the White House, and those overseas, and the ones in the White House are in fact much scarier, because they have so much more military power, and the actual will to use it, unlike the bluster of the Iranians, who are merely, after all, feeling justifiably threatened by the presence of the torturing American troops on both their eastern and western borders.

For five long years I’ve turned a blind eye to the incompetence of this administration, the worst one in the history of the Republic, unlikely to be equaled in the future, as I’m confident that historians will judge. Whether out of a naive hope for world domination by the forces of Christian righteousness, or just a latent lust to kill brown people by the millions, like all the other neocons, I’ve stood by this administration, and misled my readers for too long. I can’t undo all the damage that my fascist propaganda has done for the past half decade, but I can at least stop perpetuating it.

This is my last blog post.

I’m under a couple of deadlines, and I managed to come down with a cold (probably from my trip to Phoenix last weekend), so blogging will be light for a while.

They’re really cheap, and hosting is very cheap as well these days. I’ve had Blogspot banned for many months now, because the splogging had gotten totally out of control, and now I’m getting tons of spam from Live Journal. I’ll probably have to ban that as well.

I’m going to leave the computer in the room for the evening session, so I’m not so tied down with it. See you tomorrow.

Ultimately, my plane ended up being over five hours late. When I got in, I didn’t want to mess with the computer, but I attended most of the afternoon and evening sessions. However, Clark Lindsey has several posts up on what’s going on at the conference (just keep scrolling). I had a long day, and I probably won’t check in again until manana.

My original flight was scheduled for 7 AM. We got up at 5:30, got dressed to go, and checked the schedule. It’s been delayed until 10:30 (probably the plane didn’t get in from wherever it was supposed to last night). But I’m up now, and don’t know if I’d get back to sleep at this point.

I’ll be flying out first thing in the morning to the Space Access Conference in Phoenix, through Sunday. No blogging until tomorrow afternoon (when I may be live blogging the activities). If you’re there, say “Hi.”

OK, I’ve never knowingly banned anyone (despite Brian Swiderski’s fantasies), but I’ve decided that I’m going to delete posts of anyone who is so uncivil as to call me a liar. In the case of Anonymous Moron, he’s such a repeat (almost machine-gun like) offender in that regard (not to mention all the other offensive comments with which he’s desecrated my web site for months), that I’m going to start deleting each and every one of his posts, which is an effective banning.

I have a tremendous amount of patience, but it’s not infinite. I’ve had enough.

Oh, and I should add. Brian is hereby on notice.

Had to do an Apache upgrade on the server, and there were some glitches. Things should be OK now.

Mr. McGehee asks:

Why is Anonymoron still allowed to crap all over this blog?

At least two reasons. First, the trivial one. Because in his cowardice (and viciousness), he not only uses no name, but also changes his IP more often than he changes his underwear, there’s no obvious easy way to block him. I could delete his posts after the fact (and I suppose if I did that for long enough, he might eventually get discouraged and go away, but I’m afraid that the creature would just retaliate by spamming me or something when I was away from the computer). But there’s no way to preempt them that I’ve figured out, short of shutting down comments completely, a cure that I think (at least for now) worse than the disease.

Additionally, it would set a precedent. Though I’ve threatened to do it in the past in a couple cases, I’ve never banned anyone here. In general, there’s been no need, because usually the trolls get bored and go on to harass someone else. Anonymous Moron, unfortunately, seems to be quite persistent. I continue to hope that he is just a little more persistent than most, and will not become a permanent featurebug of this community. Unfortunately, he’s too stupid to realize that he convinces no one of anything except that he’s an idiot (I suspect that many people who might agree with him on the issues are tired of him as well, because he’s a caricature of their side, and makes it difficult for them to argue their own points, even when legitimate–I’d in fact be interested in feedback from that community on the subject).

However, I am getting more than a little tired of it myself (particularly since I’m generally on the receiving end of his vile attacks). If anyone has any ideas as to what to do about it, I’m receptive to hearing them.