I had to go and do it again.

The board I co-administer has one person on it who is very intelligent, articulate, funny, caring, active socially and politically, and who can push my buttons faster than Weird Al Yankowitz can push the buttons on an accordion. He believes the US should be negotiating with Afghan, and that the answer to America’s problems is to tell the nations of the world we’re sorry, and ask them how we can change so that they’ll like us. He sincerely believes this.

I’ve been avoiding his posts to the board, because I know that he’s only going to piss me off and because arguing with him is about as useless as teaching a pig to sing. (Anyone not familiar with the phrase should do a web search to see how it ends.) Anyhow, today this gentleman posts all about how he’s heard from reliable sources that the clips CNN played of Palestinians celebrating after the WTC was destroyed were misrepresented and were actually tapes of something else entirely. Yes, there was a rumor to that effect a few days after September 11th, but it was thoroughly debunked. I and two others on the board rushed to tell him he was full of the end products of mammalian digestion, and gave him links to the various debunking sites that showed this was false.

I took it one step further, and blasted him for his continued biased nonsense that he compulsively spit out on the forum without bothering to check his facts. I blasted him for his presumption that we weren’t getting fair media coverage nor doing our homework (pot calling the kettle black here, except here the only kitchen implement that was black is the pot). And I’m still fuming. I’d managed to avoid opening his posts for days, and only recently started reading his stuff again. And now I’m shaking again.

When the hell is this going to be over? I want to be able to debate again, and not argue.