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Yow.

Thanks to

msmemory, who pointed me at this transcript of Gore's speech yesterday. It's long, but a damned good read -- a truly incindiary call to action. It pulls absolutely no punches, calling everyone in government to task. Frankly, if the man had shown half this much passion in 2000, he might have won that election...

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From: (Anonymous)

Old "sawhorse" isn't showing any sort of passion - he's merely forgotten to take his Metamucil.

From: (Anonymous)

Otherwise, I'll assume you are a troll. Have a nice day! :)

From:

jducoeur

Yeah, I'm getting rather fed up with this. One or two comments is accidentally forgetting to log in. Three comments, spaced over time, is someone willfully hiding.

Mr. Anonymous, if you're going to spout off with vacuous negativity like this, at least have the decency to identify yourself. Otherwise I'm going to brand you a troll, and simply delete everything you post here. I have no problem with strong opinions, but I *do* have a problem with cowards who hide behind anonymity. People who don't have the courage of their convictions aren't worth giving journal space.

(And let's be clear: I'm replying to the original anonymous commenter, not the reply. I know who the reply is from, simply from writing style...)

From: (Anonymous)

I do not feel persoally obligated to create a LiveJournal or OpenID to leave a comment on a blog. Especially when the only other option to use is Anonymous. Perhaps we can agree that is a failure of this LiveJournal commenting system.

I suppose one's brand of vacuous negativity depends on the desired flavor of the spice, wot? Your vacuous negativity is your crowd's chocolate and my corriander, and vice-versa. Sometimes it is necessary to taste what you feel is bad cooking in order to help your own, I say.

- Eric

From:

jducoeur

So long as it's at least *signed* in some fashion, I don't mind it nearly as much -- that provides some continuity to the discussion, so that I can get some idea of who I'm talking to. But when it's wholly unattributed, it does comes across as *much* more trollish...