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I would like to direct every one to Chris35tn’s blog, titled Are You Kidding Pot! As you will see, several bloggers respond to Crony, but as you will also see there are no comments by Crony. Wuzzup? Crony is not a figment, and the other bloggers are not hallucinating. Chris35tn erased them.

Erasing is lame and intellectually dishonest?

The blogger wants to speak in public, but evidently he don’t like to be contradicted. When you get around him make sure you agree, and don’t show dissent. Or you will be left wondering where your brilliance went.

The headline in his original post is emphatic, punctuated with exclamation marks and declarative statements. That led me to believe that he was passionate about the subject, and was up for real exchange and spirited debate. But as you breeze through his blog and notice that my comments are not there, I want y’all to come to the same conclusion that I have, that some people are fake. They don’t wanna talk, they want one way conversations.

Erase my comments. He may as well erase them all, as now, the thread that is left is incoherent and dishonest. I responded to prompts that deserved a response, I commented all throughout. With an alternative viewpoint, I held his topic up. He removed my essence from his conversation, now all he has is a husk. Nobody’s comments are in context, and the integrity of his blog is compromised. In it’s original exchange, the topic had educative value and honesty. Now it’s just his drivel. Go visit the ruins.

Go on over there and read what not to do with your blog. I was shocked not to see my comments on his blog as I was not rude to him or any other blogger. I wasn’t off topic. Nor was I patronizing. The blogger was expressing his opinion, and I was expressing mine. Without venom, bitterness, or anger. I wasn’t trying to persuade him to my position or debate him. I thought we were having a public conversation. I was even citing sources and providing links for those of you who were interested in the topic, he raised, so that you could see the other side for yourself.

The point of the back & forth is to enlarge the debate, A & B keep the floor open until someone else -C- jumps in with their observations.

Go check his blog.. He was spitting some tired tripe I had heard before. But since he was saying it publicly, I took it as the opportunity to address the arguments. Respectfully. Politely. Point by point. That coward erased the rebuttal. He didn’t want y’all to see how intellectually sloppy his arguments were. I picked him apart. So he erased my jewels, which were for your benefit.

I don’t know why he erased my posts. For the most part I was in agreement with him. But some of "facts" he was spitting were nonsense. Being a professional researcher, I wanted him to at least qualify some of it, because he was offering his opinion on a serious subject, as stated fact. We are all free to believe what we must. But some of the stuff he was kickin’ was outright irresponsible speech. Have a laugh. Go read it.

But I must warn you that because my comments are not there to freshen up his space, your reading experience will be choppy and somewhat diminished.

All I can say to people who want to write online essays is disable the comments. Learn blogger etiquette. And read Who Let The Blogs Out by Biz Stone.

Keep it real. And when you don’t want others to have an opinion about your thoughts. Keep quiet.