it comes in pints?

Holy crap. To quote Bart Simpson: that both sucks AND blows. (And the person who is being monumentally, unbelievably rude to the good man who lost his wife also both sucks and blows).

Seriously, it is hearing behavior like this that will someday send me to live in a hermitage on a mountain and never come out.

Words fail to describe that scumbag.

Creep deserves a flaying on the FFOT.

you got that right, kate.

he deserves it all to himself.

I hate it when people think that talking shit proves their chops as a person and as a writer/blogger/what-have-you. I especially hate it when the shit-talker turns out to have such thin skin that he can't take a critique of his opinions.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people's hearts that they can't put themselves in the position of their target, and hold fire? Or at least focus on the topic, instead of scattering buckshot and hitting everyone BUT the one they aimed at?

Well, he's not getting a FFOT, at least not one run by me. He is either 1) severely mentally ill or 2) such a black-hearted bastard that he's beneath comment or 3) just looking for attention. In any case, he doesn't deserve it. My heart is literally aching for Mike right now, having to deal with someone like that, but I ain't giving that pathetic, sad, contemptable LOSER any more of my energy. I'm saving it all for my sympathy for Mike.

Besides, it looks like the stupid pussy went and deleted his entire blog anyway. Hopefully it was a part of him having to put his estate in order before Satan came for what's left of his soul.

Amen, Emily. Although I hadn't realized he deleted his blog content, having declined to increase his stats.

Actually, it's not all gone. It's just designed so shitty that the content is hard to find. He did, however, delete the post that referenced Christiana. He does have a post up celebrating the spike in traffic to his site, which pretty much indicates that he's not mentally ill, just a sad, attention-starved, retard of an asspie who doesn't care if a million people are calling him an asshole, as long as they're paying attention to him.

Seriously. What a miserable, piteous creature. I'm not angry at him. I feel sorry for him.

I'm still angry at him. I'll feel sorry for him if someone beats him more than is deserved.

I don't blame you, Ken. But after reading a few details about the guy - that he's a grown man living with his parents who's been unemployed since 2003...it's hard for me not to find him to be so sad, it pretty much cures my rage. My only concern is that Mike got his feelings hurt. That guy can just live out his pitiful, forgettable life in obscurity for all I care.

Yours is the more rational perspective, Emily, but like Ken I'm still angry at what this putz did. And it's not the first time he's polluted the Internet in a big way with his presence. Obscurity is what he deserves, no doubt about it. Unfortunately he keeps finding his way into the pool only to piss in it again. No, I won't give him the satisfaction of any traffic, however people should go to that Cold Fury link so they know who and what they're dealing with if he shows up at their site.

I do hope he gets some help and manages to keep his yap under control. I wouldn't bet on it though.

Nightfly nails it, for me: Why do people think being crude, mean, insulting, and cruel make you a good writer or somehow that you're "keepin' it real"?

I really do not understand people. And I'm not sure I want to, at least not ones like this.

Ricki,
No kidding, especially the thin-skinned part of it. The post that Mr. Chuckles was responding to wasn't even that critical. No way near the need to sink as low as he did.

I know nobody really likes being criticized, even when it's constructive, but I think there are some people that are just psychotic about it. They can't handle it in any way. I have an ex-boyfriend who was like that. I work with a guy like that right now. No matter how gentle you are about it, no matter how deserved it may be, they just go absolutely apeshit at the merest suggestion that they're not perfect. Methinks Mr. Chuckles may be suffering from the same ailment.