On comments.

I'm kind of torn on whether to allow comments on this blog. On the one hand, I like attention, and the best way to know whether this blog is calling attention to myself is to allow them. There are two arguments against it, however:

1. On my last blog, I got a death threat from a Quebecois Orthodox Jew (in response to a post about Super Drink, the ultra-kosher ultra-delicious Israeli soda and mixer,) and

2. People are fucking stupid. For example:

I love the popular webcomic "Achewood." So do a lot of idiots. Look at the comments on this comic from 2001. If you don't feel like clicking over, I'll summarize. Two characters are watching infomercials, and one of them says, "These knives!"

Ten (10) consecutive commenters comment with some form of "THESE KNIVES," "these knives!!!" "These Knievs," etc. One person bolded the phrase "These Knives!" and was given seven marks of approval and none of disapproval by his fellow commenters. And these are just the idiots. As terrifying as it is to note how many people have the compulsion to brayingly repeats punchlines like a mynah bird that watched "Borat: I'd Fuck Sacha Baron Cohen If He Weren't Such A Tiresome Ass," it pales in comparison to the knock-down, drag-out, pointless meanness that is a Youtube comment thread. I'm terribly judgmental, and those people disturb me. These people have awkwardly delayed arguments, using ferocious and misspelled invective about the merits of a fucking YouTube video, or almost more disturbingly, issues raised by a YouTube video. Sometimes an ugly girl dressed as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and lip-synching "Horst Wessel" is merely that.

So. Permitting comments for now, but the minute ArmchairJihadist and 2sweet4urkityys start having opinions near me, they're gone.