About that broad brush thing . . .
The comments posted to our newspaper can be, shall we say, entertaining. Some are actually informative, some are aggravating. When the paper reinstituted the comment function, after having removed it because too many comments were abusive, the new arrangement required a Facebook log-in. There aren’t nearly as many comments posted these days, but most of them are at least somewhat informed with some effort toward spelling and grammar. Most of them.
The exception to that rule (and you knew there had to be one) is the most reliable commenter. There are few matters on which he does not have a strong opinion. I won’t give his name, but refer to him as “Mr. Broadbrush.” Suffice it to say, he’s no fan of anyone who is not his type of conservative. His verbal ammunition belt is routinely loaded with every disparaging name for liberals, progressives, and Democrat(s), and the things we are accused of run the gamut from imaginative to slanderous. No one bothers to respond to him any more, and getting one of his scathing rebukes has become something of a badge of success.
Having no one respond to him probably rankles him more than anything else; even his fellow conservatives don’t bother to post responses in support or agreement. Mr. Broadbrush seems to have fallen into irrelevancy, an unfortunate but not uncommon hazard of broadbrushery. He hasn’t yet learned that wielding a broadbrush can be hazardous to one’s effectiveness.
Oh, well.
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