Tom, I think you should follow your own policy: "However, we’ve decided that the comment area will be an Asshole-Free Zone. We’ve seen too many good discussion

Tom, I think you should follow your own policy: "However, we’ve decided that the comment area will be an Asshole-Free Zone. We’ve seen too many good discussions degenerate into forums for jerks. Because this is our blog, we see no reason to suffer fools and jerks; they can go post somewhere else, like on their own blogs (that we won’t read). So, we reserve the right to delete comments at our whim, if we determine that the comment has that indefinable but-we-know-it-when-we-see-it asshole quality. If someone is repeatedly annoying, we reserve the right to ban their IP address so that they can’t post again." Your post has, as you say, "that indefinable but-we-know-it-when-we-see-it asshole quality". Am I the only one that finds it ironic that this post is right above your post titled "Civility doesn’t come for free; or, hammer the trolls"?