Fact Avoidance

In this LewRockwell.com blog entry, Oh boy, Oh boy..., Ms. De Coster completely avoids the fact that she wrote something pretty much as stupid as the e-mail she received from Curtis. Ms. De Coster apparently thinks that logic and reason are for the other guy, not for her.

And now comes Jesse Ogden, who avoids the issue at hand pretty well. Mr. Ogden, you're perfectly free to criticize the military. Goodness knows I did when I was in and still do today. What Ms. De Coster did was state something that is perfectly silly and untrue. She has no factual basis for writing what she did. Now that she's being called on it she's getting all defensive.

Well, Ms. De Coster, cry me a river. You write on the Internet, guess what happens. People are going to read it. If you write something as stupid and insulting as you have, don't be surprised when people write back.

In an e-mail to me, Ms. De Coster said that what she wrote is commentary/criticism, and need not be fact-based. Well, ma'am, opinions are like hemorrhoids. And an opinion offered without any facts to back it up is bullsh*t.