I may dislike it. You may dislike it. But it’s a legitimate part of the medium and, as I pointed out above, generally well written.

And, as JC pointed out, it’s quite possible we’ve all got Aspergers. That may not be a bad thing; aspies are pretty smart.

That is all.

Your insinuation was intentional — it wasn’t done accidentally because you wrote unclearly. skepticlawyer already observed (comment 18) that you write clearly. Your claim that you didn’t mean it is a lie, just like everything else in your comment.

Beck come on,

all of ozweb collectively suffers from this syndrome. I suffer/enjoy the positive aspects of course.

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Jase is one of the nicest guys on the web and does a good job of finding great subjects that even Homer can comment on and not feel intellectually inferior with his obssessive need to always insert Keating and Clinton in any comment on any subject. That’s the negative side of the syndrome of course.

As for me being the bad boy of Ozplogistan, what exactly have I done to merit that honour? Lets see, I gave an accurate accounting of BBP06 and was called a liar by SL (Jason went all pouty and started calling me names). I made light of Mark Bahnischs workload (Jason reacted with a tantrum and name calling). Ive pointed out that probably 90% of Antony Loewensteins writing is complete crap. Oh yeah, Ive also revealed probably hundreds of errors intentional and inadvertent in scientist Lamberts posts on a range of topics. (Okay, I do think he has an unnaturally large head and might have Aspergers but theres nothing wrong with that because some very intelligent people can probably attribute their intelligence to an Aspergers endowed single-mindedness.)

Some of you guys take yourselves way too seriously and deserve to be deflated. If that makes me the bad boy of Ozblogastan, cool. At least Im not the most boring boy in Ozplogastan I bestow that honour on Jason.

Link, if I had actually visted your establishment and afterwards referred to it as ‘some kind of cafe’, it would been patronising. But I used those words because it isn’t clear from that particular post exactly what kind of establishment it is; and, having overlooked them at the time, I wasn’t conscientious enough to hunt through your archive for earlier posts in which these basic facts were no doubt laid out. Can you suggest an alternative formulation? ‘A cafe or something similar’? ‘What I take to be a cafe’?

I’m a bit slow on the uptake, so have only just discovered the link. I take umbrage however at what I feel is a rather patronising description–’some sort of cafe’. I’m sure you don’t think you intended to be patronsing. But you are.

Patrick: I got beat up a couple of times at the same age and took to hiding in the school library. I managed to acquire an actual friend at age eight. So yes, it was a tough school, but kids are wolf packs.

Still, I don’t know how it works in NSW, but in Queensland the parent would have moved her son to a different school. In a lesser world, the mother would have been held as accountable as the school for not simply removing her son from the situation when the school failed to act the first time. I maintain my callous and shallow judgment of the two as people; dropout and loser.

I’ve included examples of interblog snark before, and have to admit that at times it’s a bit like listening to Scissor Sisters – a guilty pleasure, especially if well done. And Beck, despite his protestations to the contrary, actually writes economically and clearly.

I didn’t mean to offend you, I was just expressing my opinion. Nor am I handing out sweets and patting people on the head. I do think Beck’s post was juvenile, and I think you could certainly make an argument that it qualifies as harrassment – however I’m quick to acknowledge you could argue against that as well. I’ll leave that kind of debate to people like Legal Eagle.

I do believe, however, that the vast majority of stuff that ends up in Missing Link is both interesting and high quality, I really do.

I don’t feel like Beck’s post is either, moreover – and yes, this is a moral judgement, much against the grain of your libertarianism – I think it’s potentially hurtful. I wouldn’t be particularly happy if someone put together a post intimating that I was cheating on my girlfriend. I would get over it, but that’s by the by: it’s just not a very nice thing to do.

Gilmae: I know you think that sentence was a crock, but I will say in defence of the kid – he was strangled until unconscious, and had a tooth knocked out, in year one and kindy.

If you think that’s regular school-of-hard-knocks rough-housing, well, I wouldn’t want to have gone to your school! That is hard core trauma for a child of that age.

I recall a suggestion some time back (it may have been one of the comedy festival debates) that these kids become politicians…

Mind you, I share her concerns about the “Melbourne Model”.

Frankly I think its a form of bullying, and its not appropriate.

Perhaps I was in error then. Perhaps the next step will be a kid sues the school because the other kids chanted “Jeremy and Whatshername, sitting in a tree…”; and wins.