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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

I Am No Longer A 'Blogger'

Posted Friday, January 29, 2010, at 2:00 AM

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  • Nice ********!!

    I think that people posting anonymously is a way for them to relieve stress and get all of their thoughts out without any repurcussions or having to worry about who might see it. No doubt most people would tone down what they're saying if their name and face was attached to it.

    It's especially refreshing that you take a comical point of ******** rather than most of us who just whine(including myself a lot of the time). But like I said, I see it as a good stress reliever to say what is on your mind and getting some feedback.

    Anyway keep up the good work ********!

    -- Posted by almighty on Fri, Jan 29, 2010, at 8:17 AM
  • ****, the SEMissourian blocked out my b****es.

    -- Posted by almighty on Fri, Jan 29, 2010, at 8:18 AM
  • Acronyms. Yeah, how to obscure the indefinable and hide the unacceptable. Has much in common with screen names.

    What I have against "blogging" is the need for regularity. Hate schedules.

    -- Posted by voyager on Fri, Jan 29, 2010, at 9:29 AM
  • Another outstanding piece of writing. I like your reincarnation of the art of argument presented by the likes of Ben Franklin, in an earlier time.

    Thanks for the sometimes thought provoking and always entertaining work.

    -- Posted by IonU on Fri, Jan 29, 2010, at 9:58 AM
  • I think the right to free speech should end when individuals choose to veil their identity. . .

    -- Posted by Bushman_212 on Fri, Jan 29, 2010, at 1:29 PM
  • Amen to Bushman_212.

    I come from the generation of ink slingers that would verify every letter to the editor was actually written by - or, at least, claimed by - the person whose name was on it.

    When The Missourian first started Speak Out from phone messages, I wrote Gary Rust and said that people who were too dumb or too lazy to write their opinion probably didn't have anything worth killing trees to print.

    I see now that anonymous Internet posters have proven the old adage that you can put an infinite number of monkeys pounding away at an infinite number of keyboards and eventually one of them will type OMG LOL ROTFLMAO.

    If you can't sign your name to it, then it has no value to me.

    I'm proud to say that I never dodged a byline on a controversial story and that my home phone number was always listed, even though I got my share of crank calls and threats.

    -- Posted by ksteinhoff on Sun, Jan 31, 2010, at 4:00 AM
  • James Nall, good 'solution.' Sadly, I bet it happens more than it should.

    Rick, considering that I do my share of complaining I would proud to be the official B*TCHer of this website. But if it is too much of a politically incorrect term, I suppose I can suck it up and live with being a plain ol' blogger.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Sun, Jan 31, 2010, at 10:52 PM
  • Nil,

    "Our nations Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they know that the right to free speech could ever be extended to anonymous individuals cowering behind ridiculous names like "Silence Dogood" or "Publius".

    Actually, Publius has a long and proud history in America. The essays comprising the Federalist Papers were all originally published under the name "Publius". The identity of the authors (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay) wasn't generally known until after Hamilton's death in 1804.

    -- Posted by kwforeman on Mon, Feb 1, 2010, at 12:11 PM