Notes From the Moulding Darkness

How sad that Fausto at Malta 69 Methadone has been so quick to scorn the insightful contributions of Anthony Licari on the evils of anonymous blogging. How easy it would be to demur that people are forced into anonymity by threats of being referred to "democratic legal and journalistic structures" for merely contesting the validity of someone's competence to write columns in a national newspaper. And not just any national newspaper; the newspaper of record itself, if you please. It's surely footling pedantry to raise Licari's sloppiness in managing to grievously misspell a word in the very first paragraph of his "column":

Zombies are very easily provoked. It suffices to utter the words "Fred" or "Tony" or to "dare" show displeasure at anything this administration is doing wrong to have them grunting under their protective tombtones.

To be exact, it is hardly relevant to speak of zombies being provoked. Surely a better insult, or constructive criticism, might have been to refer to the noxious bloggers in question as jellyfish; attacking unannounced and utterly spineless. Zombies are of quite another species. Indeed, as wikipedia explains, zombism can be induced by:

"... the victim's own belief-system, possibly leading to compliance with the attacker's will, and causing quasi-hysterical amnesia, catatonia, or other psychological disorders..."

Not that readers should even begin trying attempting to cast anybody in that role. For as it says in the book of St. Anthony of Licari, "if you aim at nameless people say what you like". Yes readers, you're right, there should be a comma between 'people' and 'say', but isn't it too much to expect universities, any of the three you've been to, to teach such fripperies as punktuation and speeling. Faithful readers, your sadistic minds and stomachs disappoint me.
I might go so far as to say that your inferences are clearly criminal and are definitely not covered by freedom of expression. Are you not aware that you are not at liberty to offend, criticise or mock? Get ye to a dank buried hole. Can you have a buried hole? Does that make sense? Weeell, you get the point.