I'm SO disappointed. I expected a torrent of invective over my last entry, but none has been forthcoming. There's the usual litany of his accusations toward me -- that I'm revising history, that my memory is faulty, that I'm twisting facts to suit my needs, that I'm rationalizing or being irrational, that I'm lying. Then there's the fact that I wasn't actually present in the IRC channel for the pot argument.

I was even prepared for at least one or two people to write in defending him. Even one or two people agreeing would've been OK -- I know there are such people out there, since I've talked to you privately, but perhaps you don't want to go on public record.

*silence* *crickets*

But then again, there is a friends-only post from Joey this morning, so maybe I haven't gone totally unnoticed.

Please note, one and all, that this round of Joseph-bashing is really a catharsis for me, after spending a very long time artificially inflating my opinion of him, defending him against detractors when I really agreed with them and magnifying his strengths. I will balance it out when the urge takes me with a discussion of the things I liked, and still like, about him.

Coming sometime soon: An examination of Joseph's self-professed and widely believed assertion that the always acts and reacts with careful deliberation in a balanced or appropriate way, with simultaneous commentary on his invoking the 'the best way the know a person is to fight him' line from Babylon 5.

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