if someone thinks i have "zero credibility",
why would they continue reading my posts?

i dunno.  beats me.  it's a mystery.

once i concluded that people like marcello
and david starner, lee passey, josh the hutch,
and -- the one we love to hate -- jon noring
had "zero credibility", because they had _bet_
it all against me in our little poker game, and
they _lost_, i put them in my spam folder and
let them rot there.  i read 'em if they're quoted
in an e-mail that comes from people i still read,
but it's _amazing_ just how seldom that happens.
or maybe it's not, since they had so rarely (if ever)
uttered anything that actually needed to be heard.
even the many rocks that they tried to throw at me
fell harmlessly at my feet, and merely amused me,
especially when i picked up each one of their rocks
and threw it back, plunking them on their heads...

so really, folks, don't bother trying to squabble.
if you don't like what i say, just kill-file me and
we will both be much happier people in the end.

have i made myself clear?

-bowerbird

p.s.  meanwhile, one more guy in my spam folder...