Boo-hoo... If you're so goddam sensitive, you should get another job...

My career as a nitwitted, emasculated fascist began the afternoon of Jan. 19 when, as executive editor of the Post's Web site, washingtonpost.com, I closed down the comments area of one of our many blogs, one called post.blog. Created primarily to announce new features on the Web site, the blog had become ground zero for angry readers complaining about a column by Post ombudsman Deborah Howell on the newspaper's coverage of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. If I had let them, they would have obliterated any semblance of civil, genuine discussion.

i'm not one to indulge in nasty invective... i do sometimes use graphic language but i generally (NB: "generally") avoid personal attacks... i have been very fortunate with this blog in having to deal with only a miniscule number of such comments... i think i may have deleted two or three in the nearly a year i've been posting... but, ya know what...? those kind of people are out there... we all know that... it's no biggie to take the over-the-top comments and just delete them... it's also no biggie to annotate the comments saying that's what you've done and why... closing down the entire comments section is like swatting mosquitoes with a shovel... i've got only one comment for mr. brady...

CRY ME A RIVER, BUILD ME A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT...!

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