Making Stuff Up

Some people get mad if I write about stuff I see on the Times-Standard Topix site in this space, rather than on the T/S site.

Who cares if I write anything at all? Who cares if I write over there or over here?

The people, like the guy last summer who claimed I hadn't played any baseball in college 30 years ago, just want to argue where they figure they'll have the biggest audience. It's understandable, though, and part of what's wrong with our being able to write anything we want about anything or anyone without having to identify ourselves.

I doubt many people pay much attention to this site. People visit or stumble on the T/S comments section all the time, by the hundreds. So, I decided, the people who want to make a public case of their issues with me before hundreds or thousands, rather than here where maybe dozen people visit.

I just read on the T/S site a comment where a guy states without fear of equivocation that my "relatives" and I make anonymous comments on the T/S site. The nitwit wrote that I'm "shadowy."

I don't have any "relatives" I'm in contact with beyond my 4 kids and a couple cousins -- one in Fort Bragg and one in Minnesota. This knucklehead said my "relatives" and I posted anonymously and then that I posted using my real name and then asked mysteriously, "How do I know?" I guess that guy figures I'm scared about being outed or something on the T/S site.

"How do I know?" is intended to infer the poster is in possession of secret information that I'm trying to hide.

I don't know if I have relatives routinely posting anonymously on the T/S site. I God knows in the universal scheme of things, I've got bigger things to handle than orchestrating some covert plan to ... post comments on my hometown newspaper's Web site.

Some people seem jealous that folks sometimes ask me, specifically, a question about North Coast sports or the North Coast media. They think I think I'm important if somebody wonders what I think about, say, the Eureka High basketball team.

Um, I don't really feel important if somebody asks me a question about high school sports.

I like writing about this stuff, but ... that's it. I like doing it. It's that simple.

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