Or is my strawman beating my dead horse with a red herring?

Was there ever any doubt?

Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!
Philip Nolan, the man without a country

I have always been treated with respect and dignity on Olyblog.  No one ever disagrees with me.  My wife is Morgan Fairchild....yeah.....Morgan Fairchild....that's the ticket!

On my part I know full well I get fed up easily. I say something like this jokingly sometimes but in this case it's true: you should've seen me before I took a stress-management class last year. A near meltdown, and the realization of what consequences I could have faced if a situation had gone to the next level, was my wakeup call. It helps when I'm better acquainted with somebody, but in terms of good manners that's not really a valid excuse.

It might help if OlyBloggers actually wanted to get along with everyone else. For the most part that's the case, even though sometimes I wonder if people are reluctant to separate a person's character from a belief.

Now, after saying all this...don't believe anything else you might've read on other websites supposedly written by me, the internet is full of damned lies.

Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!
Philip Nolan, the man without a country

I don't feel I've ever been bullied, I do feel that I have been "politely" called many names for disagreeing with certain folks on the blog.

I have said a few things that I would in turn consider bullying. I said them to be mean, and that is how they came across.

I think we are doing ok so far.

I'm not sure what we can do about it. Respecting that someone may not agree with you, and that just because you point out your disagreements with someone, doesn't mean you are attacking them as a person. I think much of that becomes lost though.

I'm really not sure about your scarecrow, your pony, or you lil fish.

I think of only Hogan or data. And when it comes to metadata, I like to say, "I never meta data I didn't like."

OK, it is a joke only library catalogers understand.

Norm, I appreciate your comments and how much work you must have put into reaching those conclusions. 

I can't read DJW's posts just like I can't read the comments threads in The Olympian. 

 A big "BANNED" comes up on my screen with a picture of a guy sitting at a computer looking like a characature of Frankenstein (not the monster, the doctor) with a newspaper press rolling in the background.

Then again, this could be more suitable for the dream blog.