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		<title>By: Chase "Still Loving This"  Swindler</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2630</link>
		<dc:creator>Chase "Still Loving This"  Swindler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First, I must say, I love people who use the internet and what they think is their intellect to hide behind a shield of flowery writing and grammar to attack people.

Secondly, I know Logan, and I also know that Logan is hilarious. That&#039;s why his post about him being extraordinary was taken for exactly what it was. A joke. I even hassled him for it. 

Third, This is Logan&#039;s Blog. I&#039;ll repeat in case it&#039;s unclear. THIS IS HIS BLOG. He can post whatever he wants on it, and allow whatever he wants on it, and also censor whatever the hell he chooses. If you don&#039;t like it, stay away. 

All that being said. Logan...You are extraordinary and don&#039;t you forget it. Seems like you have some pretty base friends who can&#039;t tell a joke when it&#039;s sitting on their face.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, I must say, I love people who use the internet and what they think is their intellect to hide behind a shield of flowery writing and grammar to attack people.</p>
<p>Secondly, I know Logan, and I also know that Logan is hilarious. That&#8217;s why his post about him being extraordinary was taken for exactly what it was. A joke. I even hassled him for it. </p>
<p>Third, This is Logan&#8217;s Blog. I&#8217;ll repeat in case it&#8217;s unclear. THIS IS HIS BLOG. He can post whatever he wants on it, and allow whatever he wants on it, and also censor whatever the hell he chooses. If you don&#8217;t like it, stay away. </p>
<p>All that being said. Logan&#8230;You are extraordinary and don&#8217;t you forget it. Seems like you have some pretty base friends who can&#8217;t tell a joke when it&#8217;s sitting on their face.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason Evers</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2629</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Evers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So the conversation being you proclaiming your &#039;extraordinarity&#039;, counter arguments add nothing while joking remarks are kept. Noted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the conversation being you proclaiming your &#8216;extraordinarity&#8217;, counter arguments add nothing while joking remarks are kept. Noted.</p>
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		<title>By: Logan Leger</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2130</link>
		<dc:creator>Logan Leger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 18:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I never expected that to be you, Jared. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never expected that to be you, Jared. </p>
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		<title>By: My name is Jared Lloyd Blanton.</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2126</link>
		<dc:creator>My name is Jared Lloyd Blanton.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And thanks for your comment, Matt. If you hadn&#039;t said something, my second comment may have never been allowed. After all, I submitted the post yesterday. I guess it took around twelve hours to grow said pair. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And thanks for your comment, Matt. If you hadn&#8217;t said something, my second comment may have never been allowed. After all, I submitted the post yesterday. I guess it took around twelve hours to grow said pair.</p>
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		<title>By: My name is Jared Lloyd Blanton.</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2125</link>
		<dc:creator>My name is Jared Lloyd Blanton.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Learn from the precepts you established? Face my problems? 

Who do you think you are, Logan? It seems with each passing day you become more full of yourself. You can be a really nice guy, but you build up this wall of egotistical bullshit to keep people from hurting your feelings. It&#039;s stupid and tiresome. 

I wrote under a pseudonym because it didn&#039;t matter who I was. The fact is that several people feel the same way (do you remember high school?). I&#039;m not one guy with personal problems. I&#039;m just one guy willing to call your bluff. 

&quot;This was never about you, so please stop making it that way.&quot;
Really? Stop obfuscating the readers. You quoted me in your post. 

Please grow up soon. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learn from the precepts you established? Face my problems? </p>
<p>Who do you think you are, Logan? It seems with each passing day you become more full of yourself. You can be a really nice guy, but you build up this wall of egotistical bullshit to keep people from hurting your feelings. It&#8217;s stupid and tiresome. </p>
<p>I wrote under a pseudonym because it didn&#8217;t matter who I was. The fact is that several people feel the same way (do you remember high school?). I&#8217;m not one guy with personal problems. I&#8217;m just one guy willing to call your bluff. </p>
<p>&#8220;This was never about you, so please stop making it that way.&#8221;<br />
Really? Stop obfuscating the readers. You quoted me in your post. </p>
<p>Please grow up soon.</p>
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		<title>By: Logan Leger</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2109</link>
		<dc:creator>Logan Leger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 07:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I certainly feel that this is a better response, but it still violates one very important axiom: Use your own name.  It&#039;s such a cheap shot to use  pseudonym such as &quot;Still Tired.&quot;

And I don&#039;t think my post was masturbatory.  Maybe my ego is inflated, but I think over-inflated is an exaggeration.  More importantly, you are taking this completely out of context.  The point wasn&#039;t to stroke my ego, but to prove that claiming to be extraordinary isn&#039;t that ridiculous—and it&#039;s not.

The main problem with you is that you clearly have personal issues with me.  I don&#039;t know who you are—aside that you&#039;re posting somewhere in Tennessee, but I surmise that I know you from high school and that I offended you in some way.  And if I did: get over it.  Stop living in the past and hiding under pseudonyms and face your problems.

This was never about you, so please stop making it that way.  Also—please reread this post and learn from the precepts that I established.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I certainly feel that this is a better response, but it still violates one very important axiom: Use your own name.  It&#8217;s such a cheap shot to use  pseudonym such as &#8220;Still Tired.&#8221;</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t think my post was masturbatory.  Maybe my ego is inflated, but I think over-inflated is an exaggeration.  More importantly, you are taking this completely out of context.  The point wasn&#8217;t to stroke my ego, but to prove that claiming to be extraordinary isn&#8217;t that ridiculous—and it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>The main problem with you is that you clearly have personal issues with me.  I don&#8217;t know who you are—aside that you&#8217;re posting somewhere in Tennessee, but I surmise that I know you from high school and that I offended you in some way.  And if I did: get over it.  Stop living in the past and hiding under pseudonyms and face your problems.</p>
<p>This was never about you, so please stop making it that way.  Also—please reread this post and learn from the precepts that I established.</p>
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		<title>By: Logan Leger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Logan Leger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 07:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not that those didn&#039;t suit my interests, Matt.  It&#039;s that they added nothing to the conversation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not that those didn&#8217;t suit my interests, Matt.  It&#8217;s that they added nothing to the conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: Still Tired</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2103</link>
		<dc:creator>Still Tired</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 05:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Both of these people might have had legitimate claims, but they obfuscated them by proffering those inane comments. Instead, they should’ve posted a well-formulated response so that I could’ve engaged in a conversation with them.&quot; (Edited for grammatical errors)

I would like to make it clear that I do, in fact, have legitimate claims. I felt I stated them in no uncertain terms, but if you feel that an explanation or a rephrasing is necessary, I will gladly oblige. I claimed that your post was masturbatory in that its sole purpose, in my opinion, was to stroke an over-inflated ego. I also stated that the sheer magnitude of your ego was extraordinary. By this, I meant that you are extraordinarily conceited, arrogant, megalomaniacal, etc. (If this is unclear, I can offer more synonyms at some later time.) These claims are legitimized by your posting on your own blog a list of ways in which you are superior to most. 

Do you know what the verb to obfuscate and the word “inane” mean, respectively? I’ll help you out. 

obfuscate
1 a: darken   b: to make obscure 
2: confuse 

My comment obfuscated nothing. I did not confuse the reader. My opinion of you was apparent. If not, I offer my sincerest apologies to you, your readers, and the internet, generally. 

inane
1  : empty, insubstantial 
2  : lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly 

Was my comment really inane? Did I lack a point? Were my claims unsubstantiated? 

You claimed that you “didn’t publish [my comment] because it violated [your] terms for commenting (which just really boils down to don’t be an idiot).” You’re insinuating here that I’m an idiot. I may not be smarter than most, but I’m certainly no idiot. 

I only hope that this comment meets the bar for excellence, that you consider it the “well-formulated” writings of an individual who is not an idiot. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Both of these people might have had legitimate claims, but they obfuscated them by proffering those inane comments. Instead, they should’ve posted a well-formulated response so that I could’ve engaged in a conversation with them.&#8221; (Edited for grammatical errors)</p>
<p>I would like to make it clear that I do, in fact, have legitimate claims. I felt I stated them in no uncertain terms, but if you feel that an explanation or a rephrasing is necessary, I will gladly oblige. I claimed that your post was masturbatory in that its sole purpose, in my opinion, was to stroke an over-inflated ego. I also stated that the sheer magnitude of your ego was extraordinary. By this, I meant that you are extraordinarily conceited, arrogant, megalomaniacal, etc. (If this is unclear, I can offer more synonyms at some later time.) These claims are legitimized by your posting on your own blog a list of ways in which you are superior to most. </p>
<p>Do you know what the verb to obfuscate and the word “inane” mean, respectively? I’ll help you out. </p>
<p>obfuscate<br />
1 a: darken   b: to make obscure<br />
2: confuse </p>
<p>My comment obfuscated nothing. I did not confuse the reader. My opinion of you was apparent. If not, I offer my sincerest apologies to you, your readers, and the internet, generally. </p>
<p>inane<br />
1  : empty, insubstantial<br />
2  : lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly </p>
<p>Was my comment really inane? Did I lack a point? Were my claims unsubstantiated? </p>
<p>You claimed that you “didn’t publish [my comment] because it violated [your] terms for commenting (which just really boils down to don’t be an idiot).” You’re insinuating here that I’m an idiot. I may not be smarter than most, but I’m certainly no idiot. </p>
<p>I only hope that this comment meets the bar for excellence, that you consider it the “well-formulated” writings of an individual who is not an idiot.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Turner</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2099</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Turner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 04:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You need to grow a pair and stop only allowing comments that suit your interests.</description>
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		<title>By: Logan Leger</title>
		<link>http://loganleger.com/respond-controversial-blog-posts/comment-page-1#comment-2093</link>
		<dc:creator>Logan Leger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 01:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll definitely go with that latter.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll definitely go with that latter.  </p>
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