I used to surf around looking for websites I liked, and link whore like a banshee, until they finally gave me a sidebar link. I even asked a few times. ANd I very nearly pouted when Vman accidentally deleted my link, once (I think it was accidental. he said it was.) <\/p>\n
These days, I’m almost as excited to be uncerimoniously removed from someone’s blogroll. I take it as a badge of honor. it means I’m doing something very right. I have had some pissing contests over the years- Mark Alger and I once went at it tooth and nail for the better part of a week- and we still disagree rabidly on the subject on which we had the discussion- but I’ve since eaten at his house and used his table saw. You gotta be close to a guy to use his table saw. I also had a pissing contest once with Acidman- a badge of honor in itself- but at the end, he laughed, and left my link intact. Where it still is. I once shat- almost literlly- on Elisson’s blog<\/a> and he actually thanked me. I’m not afraid to state my opinion, in person as well as on the blog; I am anonymous here, in the main, though anyone with a 5th grade education can find me easily (lord knows many trolls have) and a powerful lot of the time people dislike my opinion. That’s fine! it’s a free country, for a little while longer, anyway. But the bottomline is, I am always ready to back up my opinion with the reason I got there, and I don’t come to my opinions without lifetimes of research; I just don’t form opinions based on my feelings, I research everything obsessively. I’m also always willing to be taken to school; if you have your ducks in a row, and you can state your case effectively without basing anything on “Feelings”, I not only may not laugh at you, I might agree with you. I still change my stance on things from time to time, and it’s often at the explanation of those things by very intelligent people. And I am as often thankful for the education. I am always amused when people disagree with me, and rather than acknowledge that I might just be right, they de-link me so as to attempt to somehow make me go away. <\/p>\n Maybe I should put a tagline under the header. “Pissing off the entire internet- one person at a time”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to surf around looking for websites I liked, and link whore like a banshee, until they finally gave me a sidebar link. I even asked a few times. ANd I very nearly pouted when Vman accidentally deleted my link, once (I think it was accidental. he said it was.) These days, I’m almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}