I was a bit surprised yesterday to get notifications about comments left on my posts here. First, I didn’t think anybody read this. I never really intended this for a broader audience. Maybe I secretly liked the idea of somebody stumbling upon it and thinking it was worth something, but I’ve only told a couple of people about it, and I don’t talk about it on social media or make any efforts to advertise it. I’ve been toning down my social media presence a bit lately for professional reasons, and haven’t done much here either. Yet, there were these two comments. It was clearly the same person making both comments, because they both came from the same IP address and were left within minutes of each other, although the person tried to make it seem like they were from two people by using different email addresses, one of which was “die@hittingbregma.com.” The comments made me pretty sad. Lots of “your side” does this and “your side” does that, which is so different from how I try to see the world, and what I try to write about here. Nothing acknowledging nuance in the world or showing any attempt to find common ground. Either way, in keeping with my use of this thing as an outlet, I figured it was a good time to write a quick post to get it out there. I’ll turn off comments moving forward because I have Facebook for that stuff. That’s just not what this is for. Sorry to those who really want to engage, but there’s little chance that I’ll approve a comment to be posted, especially on something very old.