Bix:
while perusing this article and its links, I came across the one about Brock and his experience with the Canadian health care system. I would love to publicly debate you on the subject, as you sound about as uninformed as you accuse Brock of being, but alas, you have closed the comments on that thread…

I mistakenly thought you closed the comments. my mistake. I would’ve been 100% fine with writing “…but the comments are closed” instead. I wasn’t specifically crafting my words to score a point, I just didn’t know the comments automatically closed after 30 days. sue me. in fact, going back and looking at the page again, I still don’t see where it says the comments automatically close after 30 days. all I see is “Comments For This Post Are Closed.” but who cares, non issue.

if you don’t want to have the debate, that’s fine, but shouldn’t you at least make mention in your response to me that you’ve banned me from posting on this site? we wouldn’t want your readers to think I wasn’t up for the challenge afterall, would we?

as to a debate being “annoying”…I guess we all have different thresholds for the term, but I would certainly do my best to keep it intellectual. I get the feeling, however, that that will prove to be impossible, since I’m betting that you’re gonna ban me from posting on this account, too…and probably delete this post while you’re at it.

in the off chance you’re willing to listen, we’ll leave aside (for now) all the health care blather. let me put the first shot across the bow: it is VERY dishonest and disingenuous “journalism” to reference someone being arrested for a crime for which YOU KNOW they were either exhonerated, or for which YOU KNOW the charges were dropped. it’s relevant IF and ONLY IF the investigation is still going on, but if the person in question has been cleared of wrong-doing, then what’s the point in mentioning it? seems like cheap character assassination to me. and YOU are lecturing ME about choosing to ignore things to make points??? don’t be such a chump. you write for SBNation. you should be better than that.

am I annoying (or perhaps inconveniencing) you? when you get into the business of opinion journalism/blogging, this comes with the territory. again, if you don’t want to have it out, that’s fine. all you gotta do is say so and I won’t say anything else about it. you don’t have to ban me (again).