Chris Cross, a frequent commenter and the proprietor of Legal XXX, has joined the Bear Flag League. It’s about friggin’ time. Um … I mean … welcome!

If a tree falls in the wilderness and no one hears it, did it really make a sound? If you have a blog and no one reads it, do you really have a blog?

After posting a series of consistently trollish and increasingly nasty comments in the only forum where he could get an audience, troll extraordinaire médiocre Mark A. York has managed to get himself banned by Patterico, the highly acclaimed blogger known to John Leo readers as “one occasionally amused blogger.” To give you an idea what a feat that is to get banned from that site, consider that Ted Rall is not banned there, nor is M. “Clod” Croche – although it’s possible that Croche’s frequent, unintentional humor in consistently missing the point of everything may be part of the reason the Patster keeps him around. Regardless. My point is, you really have to go out of your way to piss off Patterico enough to get him to consider banning you, let alone to actually go through with it.

Even after banning the jerk, Patterico was waaaayyyyy too fair and requesting that his regular readers refrain from posting comments mocking Mr. Dork, um, I mean, York, in a forum where he can no longer respond. Rather than graciously accept that, Marky-Mark responded with even more whining about how everyone is wrong except him:

That’s big of you counselor. No doubt prompted by my comment on Mr. Patterico skewing Sen. Byron Dorgan D-North Dakota as ventiloquist’s dummy. Is this justified behavior by a native Texan prosecutor for Los Angeles County? Maybe Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn-D should know about this?

Don’t worry, Detective, I’m already on it. I just got off the phone with Mr. Hahn-D, who was only slightly surprised to learn he had a D in his name, but who was “shocked, shocked!” to learn that not all D.A.s in Los Angeles County are Democrats, and worse still, some were born in states other than California! He was just about ready to issue the orders to fire all non-native and/or Republican D.A.s in Los Angeles County, when I gently reminded him that he’s only mayor of the city of Los Angeles, not the entire county. “Dammit,” he replied. “You mean the city and county of L.A. are, like, different? Why can’t things be nice and simple, like they are in Frisco?”

Ironically, Marky-Mark’s bitch about being banned by Patterico comes on the heels of another post in which he complains about being banned from another site, Jay Rosen’s:

“YOU ARE NOT WELCOME AT PRESSTHINK. I WANT YOU TO LEAVE NOW. Don’t come back.”

What a strange view from a journalism professor to a current journalism student.

Well, that explains a lot. If there’s one thing lower than a journalist, it’s someone who aspires to become one. And if there’s anything lower than that, it’s a journalism student who can’t get into a better school than Cal State, which will admit almost anyone with a pulse. What’s wrong, Markmeister, competition too tough over at the University of Spoiled Children? Not that you can’t get a decent education at CSUN; you can, but not with grades like these.

Patterico may be a fair-minded person, but I’m not. York got multiple second chances on Patterico’s site, but one shot was enough to get himself banned on mine. By contrast, anyone wishing to poke fun at Mr. York is more than welcome here. I’ll begin by reposting the comment in which Patterico politely told this jerk to go bye-bye, followed by the two comments that followed it and were subsequently edited out of (misplaced?) respect for the jerk.

Please find yourself another site to comment on.

Posted by: Patterico at July 14, 2004 05:59 AM (Permalink)
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Help, help, I’m being repressed!

Posted by: Mark, A Dork at July 14, 2004 06:56 AM (Permalink)
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Bloody peasant!
Bloody peasant!

(And your Blogger site sucks too, Mark. Reminds me of that pea soup I had…after I brought it back for a command performance.)

As for Moore, what more can one say? He’s a bald-faced liar. But watch the underpriveleged masses claim “IF DIS IS TRU, HE WULD B SUD. HES NOT, SO ITS TRU!!!!”

I hate that argument. Our courts are stuffed full enough without having to work El Lardo in.

Posted by: Chadster at July 14, 2004 07:02 AM (Permalink)

Carry on!

UPDATE: I’ve been called plenty of nasty names in my day, some deserved, some not, but “vile right-wing female going under the handle XLQ” is definitely a first. Check it out. In the same entry, he also butchers the spelling of Justene Adamec’s name, and even such a basic word as “something.” Meanwhile, in a comment, he proudly announces that at prestigious schools like CSUN, B, B, A, C+, D, D and B add up to “cum laude.” Sometimes I have to wonder which is more pathetic, Marky’s ideas or his spelling of his ideas.

The smart money says this guy (h/t: Drudge) wasn’t trying to smuggle any guns or box cutters onto the plane. I am a little puzzled by the following quote from airport police Lt. Matt Christenson, however:

“This person exposed themself in a public area, a clear violation of the law, and we needed to take some action on that, otherwise everybody would be dropping their pants. ”

Really? Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you would drop your pants at the airport if it were legal to do so? My guess is that the answer will fall somewhat short of “everybody.” I’m not even sure “everybody” is comfortable using a see-through loo.

It’s bad enough hearing moonbats whine about Bush “stealing” the last presidential election, but now they’re whining even more about him attempting to “steal” the next one by preparing a contingency plan in the event that a terrorist attack makes it impracticable to hold it on November 2. I realize that logic and liberalism don’t mix, but I have two things to say about it anyway. First: George Bush owns the terrorism issue. If this November’s election is about terrorism – and if al-Qaeda strikes on November 1, it will be – Bush will be re-elected by a landslide. Second, terrorists generally prefer to kill large numbers of people at once, which means large cities, which typically vote Democrat. If someone flew a jet into Sears Tower right before Election Day, hardly any living people would vote in Chicago. Is that the scenario the moonbats want?

Unfortunately, even the normally sensible Orange County Register is not immune to such moonbattery. Today’s cartoon by Mike Shelton, which I’ve reproduced below, steals a page from the anti-FMA playbook:

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