Defense of comments, part 2

Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly, March 21, 2005:

Yep, it's true. This is the first time — the very first time — that Bush has ever cut short one of his Crawford brush clearing holidays. When the Christian right speaks, your commander-in-chief jumps.

"bryan", commenter:

that's not very fair, I'm sure he'd cut a vacation short to hurry up an execution as well.

You see? "bryan" actually added something to Kevin Drum's entry there, by using humor to emphasize Bush's "presumption in favor of life" hypocrisy.

(I would love to have comments, but I don't want to deal with the deluge of comment spam, or the moderation required to keep the comments civil. In a sense, trackbacks are poor man's moderation, for if you want to comment on one of my posts, you have to write an entire blog post yourself. This increases the probability of intelligent, interesting commentary.)