1 TMW is more important

2 Hey, you're one of the Original Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse, been sneered at by The Atlantic and hated by MeFi.

Not a bad day of work, that.

3 You're guilty of inventing one of the most irritating and illegitimate rhetorical ploys on the internet? A standing excuse to dismiss what somebody has said, by putting words they never uttered in their mouth?
In your place, I'd aspire to anonymity... That's like saying you invented the ad hominem.
Though I'm guessing your defense would be that your "shorter" was actually accurate. They usually aren't.

4 "used for", Brett.  Not "used by".

5 I didn't invent it. Someone else invented it to refer to me. I was the first target of it.

6 Ah, sorry, thanks for clarifying that. You didn't seem like the sort of person who'd invent a whole new way of avoiding a rational conversation.

7 ...most notably, his is now a cobweblog, and you're still around posting on what interests you, with an audience greater than 5 people.  Something about living well and the best revenge?

8

I stopped updating USS Clueless the next year, but yeah, I'm still at it 13 years later. (Which is kind of scary, when I think about it.)

9 I know the feeling.  I was responsible for starting an epic political flamewar/discussion on the Baen Bar about fifteen years ago, which resulted in John Ringo and Colonel Tom Kratman challenging Eric Flint to stop making ad hominem attacks (I got called a jackbooted thug) and state his actual political beliefs.
"No private property" was bad enough, but I stopped reading after "Government distribution of all foodstuffs; no private gardens."
Those damned Kulaks, always trying to feed themselves...  Flint got moved way down my list of favorite authors.  He's still above Karl Marx, but that's only because he tells a better story.