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June 29, 2005 Have you ever had a hemorrhoid? I haven’t, but my ex-wife did – it’s a common side effect of giving birth she told me. They are said to be very painful and irritating. Apparently, anal tissue swollen with dilated veins causes the problem. Hemorrhoids came to mind when I thought of my relationship with Ken Hughes. Of course, we haven’t met, I’m talking of our UK relationship. I, regretfully, initiated the acquaintance by sending a private email complimenting one of his articles, but also pleading that he run his work through a Grammar/Spell Checker as an elder role model for the younger UK contributors. I repeated how much I liked his writing and, in a moment of weakness that has haunted me since, I signed my name. Over the course of a few emails that day, Mr. Hughes cursed me repeatedly and insulted me in anger. I was initially shocked, as any moral, thoughtful person would be because my emails were entirely polite and respectful. I became more and more resentful as he continued his attack despite my repeated polite, respectful replies. Unfortunately, none of my replies every admitted fault - since I had none. His writing was just as good, and as imperfect, as I described. So Mr. Hughes, being unaccustomed, it would seem, to any criticism or, if anyone tried, being able to bully them into silence, posted a scathing, but totally fabricated, article on UK accusing me of terrible injustices and arrogant nit-picking. Many of you suffered through the ensuing public battle with me exposing his lies with the proof of our exact emails, and him feigning indignation at Matt for allowing me to post that proof. For some odd reason he believed it OK that he posted outright lies ABOUT the emails but it was terribly wrong for me to post the actual emails. Go figure. He never said anything about how those emails proved him a liar, nor even tried to defend against their truth, he just stormed about me posting them and then made a big scene about resigning from UK in protest. Thus, you read the smart-@ss stuff in his Bio about grammar. I never wanted to see him go and said so at the time. I just wanted him to quit being an @sshole. Lo and behold, he comes parading back a few weeks later, trumpets blaring as if he’s saving the site from extinction. Predictably, his announcement took veiled potshots at me; I responded with a warm welcome also featuring veiled, but as always wittier, insults of him. OK, done with right? We could now move on. I was ready. But nooooo, being the insecure, belligerent old cuss that he is, and still angry at me for showing him up regardless that I acted in self defense, Ken hangs on to my @ass like a hemorrhoid, unpredictably irritating me with his swollen, dialated ego and accusing me of various misdeeds although I’ve left him alone. The first insulting post since his return was so illogical in its accusations that I was (am) seriously concerned for his mental health – so I posted the article about him having Alzheimer’s to express those thoughts and pointed out, with very specific examples, how his criticism was literally insane in its disconnect from reality. Again, nary a word in defense of my proof from him – because, as usual, I was right. Now, my crack itches again from another out-of-nowhere ‘roid from Mr. Hughes. I read his latest article, Michell Malsbury is My Friend, and its only intent seems to be my insult and the exaltation of Ms. Malsbury. While he is verbose in his justifications for last night’s wet dream of Ms. Malsbury, and I have no objection to his fascination with her, he cites no reason for his insult of me. In fact, he seems to agree with my article. Here’s what I mean: Mr. Hughes makes the follow accusations against me, and only these accusations – first, I “was out of line for calling Michelle Malsbury ignorant and childish”, and second, that “what people read or reject isn’t your call to make Ron.” The rest of the article is either about the wonders of Ms. Malsbury, or something about the site editor’s right/responsibility for articles allowed. (Honestly, and I sure don’t want to criticize Ken’s writing and risk being cursed, but these sentences literally make no sense, “Who has the authority to assumes the right to decide what reader should and shouldn’t to read. That smacks of censorship in my opinion.” I don’t think that paragraph is about me, but I’m not sure. And this is why I asked him to Grammar/Spell check – he claims it doesn’t matter, only the “message” does. I claim that if the “message” is indecipherable, it matters.) Anyway, for the record, I actually called Ms. Malsbury “manipulative” as well. But none of my criticism contemplated that she’s building a boat, or that she has a job, a couple of houses, and goes to school (admittedly, I did ridicule Florida universities, but……who doesn’t?), yet those are all the reasons Mr. Hughes cites as evidence I’m wrong. Nothing else, just that she’s great in his opinion, so my article was wrong. Gosh, I think, my article’s accusations were based only on her article, Cheney Says, nothing else – just as Ms. Malsbury’s criticism of Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rove do not contemplate all of the good things and hard work they’ve done (would you like to compare their credentials for ambitious hard work to Ms. Malsbury’s? as if they somehow makes them immune from criticism for idiocy). And Mr. Hughes agrees with me about her article!! His exact words: “I dismissed it (her article) for what it was, more unsubstantiated liberal propaganda.” That is exactly the entire point and subject of my article, and he totally agrees with me, yet feels the need to insult me for saying it. He’s like a bleeding, festering hemorrhoid that crawled out my backside and won’t go away. . I hope, my friends among UK readers, that you recognize Mr. Hughes’ stupidity for what it is – stubborn, insecure, irrational anger at me simply because I made, and continue to make, him look like the arrogant, clumsy, uneducated buffoon that he continues to demonstrate. His attacks against me are as amateurish and unsubstantiated as Ms. Malbury’s childish attempts to spew her propaganda on this site. Of course, since I do, and have have admitted as much here, like to expose those who post manipulative, untruthful articles, I have a number of enemies on this site as well who will undoubtedly side with Mr. Hughes. None, I guarantee, will offer any rebuttal to my charges – or, I should say, any rebuttals that make sense and address my charges. I’ve asked them to, and Mr. Hughes, to do so many times. They never do, they prefer to post ugly, slanderous articles full of lies and distortions about me, then disappear into the web to return another day when, hopefully, new readers will not remember how ignorant I exposed them to be. Surely Ron, you ask, you must get tired of dealing with idiots? Yes, I do, and so you’ll notice me disappear at times. But if it means that I have to wipe drool off the chin of the likes of Mr. Hughes from time to time in order to expose all the other liars and manipulators on this site, I can handle that. Now, if I’m forced to start buying Preparation H by the case, I may reconsider. But since Mr. Hughes is not long for this world anyway, I’ll try to cut him some slack in his dotage – and his articles are great for scratching that itch, I print them on two ply. ------------ About the author: Ron Lewis is a software salesman extraordinaire, albeit habitually unemployed, with no significant accomplishments at age 47 other than two wonderfully talented children who take after their mother. All his friends note his keen insight, bad eyesight, doggedly jaded disposition, and rugged bad looks. A third person seems to recall that he talks too much. Email: grnacres@direcway.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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