Thank you for your comment, Sharon!
A classic. A commenter named Sharon Jones became outraged over an apparent counting error I made in one of the replies to a comment on the “Barefoot Contessa” post, but refused to be specific about what “seven words” I mistakenly called six. This sparked the abusive rant below, which contains so many of the standard sputterings of those who object to what I do for a living—the fans of ethical relativism, and the “let he that is without sin” crowd, who often have no use for the Bible except when it can provide rationalizations for ignoring bad conduct—that it begged to be honored as a Comment of the Day.
If you’re interested in my reply to this, it can be found in the comments to The Barefoot Contessa and the Compassion Bullies, which for the third time has generated a COTD, by Sharon Jones. Sadly, we won’t be seeing any more of Sharon around these parts…
“Apparently a Harvard degree gives you the right to be a self pretentious jerk with no accountability.
“Anybody who assumes the title of “ethics police” truly deserves to have his testicle hairs plucked one by one, followed by a hot sauce after-shave. Self righteous jerks, with an overinflated sense of self worth that gives them the feeling of entitlement to force feed the foul slop of “ethics” in a public forum. A self-worth, consequently, that is directly proportional to the balance of their checkbooks and IRAs.
“That being said, I fully grant the spineless bastard his first amendment right to say whatever feeble-minded drivel he can manage to scrape out of his Syphilitic skull and slap onto a blank canvas. More power to him. May he have a long and erectile dis-functioned life.”
Ethics Alarms 
When it comes to ethics and civility, I think the sky is falling.
To Sharon Jones:
Your comments are so thought-provoking, so intelligent, so rational, so fair, and, I might say, so absolutely elegant that I am truly abashed (you might want to look up this word).
Resent the Ivy League do you? You accuse a Harvard graduate of being pretentious? But you rave, write mindless and crude drivel, and have not one single, real idea to contribute to the discussion. Yet somehow you believe that the oh-so-scholarly Ms. Sharon Jones — true intellect that you clearly are — has the right to be pretentious, sickening and threatening? What experience or brain aneurysm brings this out? Brought up in a barn, were you? Victim of abusive parents? Spent your life in the Juvenile Justice System before “advancing” to the penitentiary? Overdosed on steroids or meth today? I guess somewhere in there is YOUR “accountability.”
Ethics is “foul slop?” Great approach to a civil life. People like YOU are our problem, NOT those who try to make us think about what behaviors are right and wrong. (As background, I refer you to the famous Saint Francis of Assisi prayer because for many they are words to live by. That is, if indeed you have even the slightest clue as to who he was or have a 2nd grader’s ability to find out. And since clearly it won’t have any effect on your mental state it’s probably not worth taxing your tiny brain to find out.)
Is this what you do with everyone with whom you disagree? How many “spineless bastards” with “syphilitic skulls” from whom have you plucked testicle hairs and then doused with hot sauce? You are a complete and utter disgrace.
P.S. I write this only in the positive, insightful and meaningful spirit of what you wrote yourself. Go pluck your own pubic hairs, kiddo. And enjoy the hot sauce, too.
P.P.S. The word is “dysfunctional,” not “dis-functioned.” Just FYI for when you write another tirade. Somewhere else, I assume.
Goddamn, that topic should have died long ago. Honestly, it’s crap like this, not anything that goes on politically, that almost makes me wish that I still lived in Taiwan (though I logically know that there are plenty of dumbasses back there too).
Mr. Hung:
Jack wrote a brilliant piece on ethics, the presidency, and current politics. It was well thought-out, worthy of thought and consideration, and about 3 people responded. Were you one?
Don’t complain about the scandalous posts until or unless you take the serious ones seriously.
Actually, I have commented seriously on some of the posts, such as the ones about the Muslim community hearings and the piece about David Brook’s statement on war.
Look, at least it’s not the $#%*& Tide commercial!
Jack: You’re a moralistic, bald-headed Neanderthal kill-joy; just like Sharon says. Me, too… minus the “bald” part! You know you’re making an impression when the only thing your opponents have to counter you with is personal attack and an occasional typo.