Then wash off your dick. It helps if you shower right after sex but it should be okay if you do it now.

As a side note, I am going to pose a speculation. I am sensing Tall Midget is conducting a semi-scientific experiment (this poll) to assess how people react to presense of disturbing elements (Mao.)

Do not misconstrue this as an accusation that Midge has fathered Mao for this purpose. In fact, I don't believe he did. Mao is trying hard to plagiarize an act much loved and missed on this board. Midge has enough talent and creativity to had come up with a more unique character.

Midge, you better send regulars here an autographed and framed facsimile of the article, if and when it makes some journal.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

As a side note, I am going to pose a speculation. I am sensing Tall Midget is conducting a semi-scientific experiment (this poll) to assess how people react to presense of disturbing elements (Mao.)

Do not misconstrue this as an accusation that Midge has fathered Mao for this purpose. In fact, I don't believe he did. Mao is trying hard to plagiarize an act much loved and missed on this board. Midge has enough talent and creativity to had come up with a more unique character.

Midge, you better send regulars here an autographed and framed facsimile of the article, if and when it makes some journal.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Then wash off your dick. It helps if you shower right after sex but it should be okay if you do it now.

Reading Spaulding's latest gem Mr Reason just had a mild grabber somewhere in the Libertarian Republic of Urbana.

How do you like the new avatar Reason?

How do you like the new avatar Reason?

well - do you at least like the kinder, gentler, insane-r Keeping Score my good friend Mr. Reason?
You don't really want the old one back do you?

Is that still going on? I've been out of pocket for a while; thought I noticed that it died mid round 1.

At first I didn't see the merit, but I must say I enjoyed reading the vote rationale. Good stuff.

ok damn, Im Mao, sorry for any inconveniance it may have caused, I was just trying to spread a little culture, sorry if i offended anybody

I miss my pink taco too.

I don't believe you.

Personally, I don't see the idea of banning Douchebag as a free speech issue.

It's not Douchebag's opinions--political or otherwise--that are the problem. Rather, it's his conscious decision to make posts lacking any substantive opinion that has damaged the board. Douchebag's bombardment of the board with nonsense functions as a concerted strategy to undermine discussion by rendering his brand of incoherence as the pervasive, defining feature of the board. Flood the board with nonsense, the logic of this scheme goes, and the board itself becomes nonsensical. Because conversation depends on coherence, an incoherent message board is, ipso facto, an extinct message board.

With the above in mind, I do nevertheless concede that Douchebag hasn't been particularly tenacious in his tactics. He has, after all, only posted around 10325 times. Further, his strategy isn't always successful: Sometimes the board collectively ignores him.

Still, while Douchebag hasn't destroyed the board, the impact of his tactics has been corrosive and ennervating. His campaign of indecipherability has clearly frustrated a broad range of posters, thereby lowering board morale and motivating some to leave at least temporarily. For instance, Woodridge Ryan, one of the board's most prolific, reasonable and highly regarded posters has explicitly stated that he is taking an extended break from posting due to the frequent trolling of Douchebag and others. Other posters have expressed similar sentiments. To some degree, then, Douchebag has realized his objective.

Consequently, while some worry about the effect banning Douchebag will have on "free speech" in this forum, I worry about the effect failing to take action against Douchebag will have on free speech here. Indeed, Douchebag's pattern of willful nonsense clearly identifies itself as a form of anti-communicative discourse that has already constricted the diversity of opinion here and threatens to do so even more in the future.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.