My Comment Policy
<p>I deleted a coment this morning.</p>
<p>This is not something I normally do, except for comments that are both anonymous and content-free &mdash; abuse and invective do not count as &#8216;content&#8217; for this purpose.  The comment I deleted this morning was not anonymous, and it could be argued that there was some content in it.</p>
<p>However, the content (if any) was drowned in a sewer-main&#8217;s worth of crude insults hurled by one respondent at another.  I will not tolerate this, even when the insult-hurler is nominally on &#8216;my&#8217; side of an issue. </p>
<p>Armed And Dangerous is not a public square and &#8220;free speech&#8221; standards do not apply here. If you have nothing to contribute to debate over the things I write about, I can and will cut you off at the knees.  This applies to those who broadly agree with me as well as those who disagree.  (If anything, I give my opponents a little more leeway than my allies.)</p>
<p>In my own small way, I&#8217;m trying to defend civilization here.  So keep it civil.  Or else.</p>
