No Bullies. No Drama. Only Comedies on TV

Posted on by Mark Aldrich

The comments territory under any YouTube video is an unlighted playground with shards of glass for sliding boards and a ball-pit full of barbed wire. There is no “thumbs-down” or dislike button available on Facebook, for obvious reasons. Comments are certainly allowed, and often the prevailing rhetorical mode is insult and injury.

Twitter may as well be one big dislike button sometimes. Not in my experience so far, except for two or three times. Each one of these is etched in my co-dependent memory, however.

When I started publishing on WordPress a year an a half ago, I wondered: What will it be like to have my work exposed to a comments section?
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Hating Hate

Posted on by Mark Aldrich

I detest Pamela Geller and I expect that she spent her Monday morning traveling from news appearance to news appearance chortling over her seemingly successful baiting last night of a couple of insane gun-toters who apparently were going to use a particular religion as justification to shoot up an event she had created for just the purpose of baiting any and all insane gun-toters who might want to use that particular religion as justification for violence. I detest her and all she claims to stand for.
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School’s Out

Posted on by Mark Aldrich

A caption for the photo at top: “You’re wrong. So are you. You’re wrong. Turn around. Listen to me and turn around. I was just over there and let me tell you that the water over there is even wetter than it is right here. Where’s the pleasure in that? Just stay right here. You! You’re wrong. Stay right here. What? Say that again? There’s something behind me?”
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