{"id":974,"date":"2009-12-24T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=974"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:46:34","slug":"infinite-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Regression."},"content":{"rendered":"

…or maybe just Regression. Either way, this is getting weird. The Port Huron Times-Herald is not just running stories about my case; it has begun running stories on my blog postings about my case<\/em><\/a>. I can hardly wait to see whether they run a piece on this blog posting on their coverage of my last blog posting. The recursion alone would almost qualify as a Christmas present in its own right, even if the comments on the T-H stories didn’t.<\/p>\n

And what great comments they are!\u00a0 Alleydog<\/strong> evidently believes<\/a> that I’m into human sacrifice (click on “oldest comments first”). wolfsschanze1<\/strong> believes that I made human-sacrifice-related comments in court<\/em>.\u00a0 jarhead47<\/strong> claims<\/a> that I advocated the public stoning of one of my best friends, citing this<\/a> as evidence of deep-seated anger issues. zano1<\/strong> and our old friend JMGrinder<\/strong> (having found perhaps the one spot on the internet that hasn’t put him on their troll watch) discuss the odds that I was high on meth<\/a>, since that’s the only way I could have possibly been immune to pepper spray at point-blank range, much less been able to toss border guards hither and yon like ten-pins. (The alternative \u2014 that the police report making these claims might suffer from certain credibility issues \u2014 is evidently too far-fetched for serious consideration.) And of course, there are those vast hordes utterly convinced that when pulled over for inspection, I rose from my vehicle thundering “Do you know who I am<\/em>, you miserable peons? I’m an obscure midlist science fiction writer!!!<\/em>” Because of course, identifying oneself with nerds and trekkies has always <\/em>got the guys with guns and badges to roll out the red carpet in the past.<\/p>\n

I can’t really blame the Times-Herald for any of this. Whatever statements I’ve made, their stories have made the context pretty explicit. It’s not their fault that so many of their readers aren’t any better at logic than they are at spelling.<\/p>\n

Still. I wonder if the Port Huron water supply has ever been tested for lead.<\/p>\n

Today’s Minor Miscellanea:<\/p>\n