It's still astonishing to me that he lives such a "conflictual" life.
He comes here--and now we know he posts other places as well--and picks fights with people who for the most part don't respond. If they do respond, it's just to let other posters know that he's not worth responding to.
Yet he keeps coming back here--and, presumably, the other sites--never for the "validation" of connecting with someone who shares your thoughts of feelings, but always for the conflict, even when no one is actually engaging with him on the issues.
I long ago said about the original arch-conservative character "Rodney" that I knew conservatives and worked with them and could tell Rodney wasn't a true conservative, just someone posting conservative sound bites to rile liberals. I still think that's true about CountA/Mark Manly/Thespis/Chanticleer/HDThoreau, even though he posts conservative threads elsewhere: He's not a true believer; he's just spoiling for a fight.
We all log on to BWW and Facebook to connect with others and receive some of that validation, and we all fight senselessly with others on this site and other sites.
But for someone to spend 50%? 60% 90% of his time in Internet battles is mind-bogglingly sad.
Updated On: 9/6/10 at 11:55 AM