More Words, Deeper Hole

A certain something about your comment makes me think that this is as good a time as any to say that, as a longtime reader of Mamatas' and a general admirer of his perception and rhetorical skill, it makes me sad when he gets like that. Watching him grind grimly on towards the last word, in a direction orthagonal to the larger conversation, is neither fun nor edifying, and in my observation it's worse when he knows he's on shaky ground. It was sloppy of him not to read the whole conversation before commenting, and his original comment on ello may have been satirical, but it wasn't particularly Swiftian.

He was wrong in more than one sense to call you stupid, which you certainly aren't. To be fair, you made a mistake about what he was referring to with the "Swiftian" thing, but the way he seized on it was closely argued, powerfully expressed, and ugly and stupid. I almost said as much at the time, but by the time I got back to the conversation you seemed to have taken it in stride and the thread had wound down. Perhaps I should have, sorry.

Maybe Nick will show up to explain that i'm wrong, and I can tell him this to his face.