Not really, no. Your reaction seemed over the top in terms of what you seem to perceive as a personal vendetta. If you’re having a bad day, just say so. Hostility only feeds itself.

And just so we’re clear, I’m not “on your side”, but I’m not against you either.
You have the right to say what you want here, as does everyone else. You also have the right to turn it off.
I worked in restaurant kitchens for 17 years. No matter where it was, there was always a at least one customer who was never happy. They complained about everything. And yet there they were every Saturday night.
If you are so unhappy with the way you get treated, Frank, why , oh why do you keep coming here?
You probably are done with this thread and therefore won’t see this, but there it is. My two cents:
Either calm down or leave.

Seriously, I don’t understand you think you convey a civil attitude.

You complain about multiple posters ‘ganging up on you’ and it simply does not occur to you that the common denominator IS you? You accuse various posters of being “a nasty, condescending, patronizing, arrogant, wiseass prick” and don’t think for a moment that you prompted the response?

I have been enjoying Oliver’s blog for a long time and, like others, find there are times when YOUR

(1) aggression
(2) ‘I’ve got all the answers’ attitude and
(3) unilateral rules for engaging in conversation

are f**king annoying and cause for response because you’re a bull in a china shop.

In a previous post, you asked frameone why he kept dishing it out. His response? You’re an idiot … because you published your street address to challenge someone in an online argument.

You recommend that: “If you don t like me, or my opinions, there are a couple of things you can do about it: 1) Disagree with me  and that s all …” 2) Get your own blog, and if / when I show up to comment there, you can ban me; or 3) You can leave me alone.

The problem, Frank, is that
(1) you’re in a public forum where we don’t give a shit about your groundrules; and
(2) with you, it isn’t a matter of “and that’s all”. You tear the shit out of issues like a pit bull and expect the rest of us to agree with you. When we don’t, YOUR nasty, condescending, patronizing, arrogant, wiseass prick attitude shines through.

It took you about 4 posts to get around to “being on my side.”
Better late than never, though.

Yes. and Yes, you must have. Maybe someday, you ll have a child  until then, you can wander around in the dark with roni the wanker. Don t drop the soap.

I do have a child, Frank. There you go again, assuming things about other people for which you have no knowledge. I was trying to be a “compassionate liberal” and try to figure out why you went so ballistic earlier up the page. I have tried to be on your side several times on this post, but you just can’t see that. can you? You have indeed insulted me in the past without provocation.
Never fucking mind.
You rent space in your head far too cheaply, Frank.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/05/05/hookers-sounds-like-hookers-i-think-its-hookers/#comments

Is there something we don t know?
I must have missed that part.

Yes.
and
Yes, you must have. Maybe someday, you’ll have a child — until then, you can wander around in the dark with roni the wanker. Don’t drop the soap.

No, No, NO. Oliver did. Look at the category Oliver filed this under:  Humor .
Ok, I have posted this 3 times. I’ll try again.
Frank, Farris, my mistake. Oliver, not funny.

I must have missed that part.

http://www.aa-dc.org/meetings.asp?st=DC&d=&format=&special=&type=&subtype=&time=&City=

WASHINGTON – Rep. Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to prescription pain medication Friday evening after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol.

Kennedy, D-R.I., plans to seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

The congressman was announcing his decision during a new conference Friday afternoon, then planned to travel to Minnesota later in the day.