\u2026why he won\u2019t publish your uncharitable comment.<\/a><\/p>\n One of the telltale marks of a jerk is how quick he is to moan about censorship when he deliberately writes something to offend somebody else and finds his comments pulled by a blog moderator.\u00a0 Add extra jerk points if, a) it never occurs to the jerk to wonder if something he said was out of line, b) he insults you for not letting him insult others, or c) goes to other threads on your blog or to another blog entirely to complain about you for \u201ccensoring\u201d his \u201cfree speech\u201d.<\/p>\n Clues for the Rude: nobody has free speech on my blog.\u00a0 I run a loose ship and mostly let people say what they like.\u00a0 But nasty rude people need to remember that I expect you to behave on my blog as you would in my living room.\u00a0 If you are rude I will warn you (if it seems to me you might not be an unteachable git) and, if you don\u2019t learn manners quickly, I will ban you.\u00a0 Boo hoo to you if you feel oppressed and start shouting about the violence inherent in the system.\u00a0 I received my kingly authority when a moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me and there\u2019s nothing you can do about it.<\/p>\n On rare occasions, spectacular jerks, banned from my blog, will cruise around the Catholic blogosphere bemoaning their outcast state on other blogs.\u00a0 They are welcome to do so (and if you are a blogger who is tired of listening to them, I would recommend you adopt my basic \u201cact as you would in my living room\u201d policy\u2013unless, of course, you are mad at me too, in which case you\u2019ll enjoy their company and everybody wins!).<\/p>\n Finally, to those whom I have banished from my comboxes, seeking to make common cause with other rudesbys I have banned, you should be cautious about the company you keep.\u00a0 Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy is not really your friend and you might find yourself embarrassed to be found in virtual bed with them.\u00a0 Take, for instance Larry Coty,\u00a0who with asinine fatuity, has begun a FB \u201csupport group\u201d for people traumatized by being banned from my comboxes<\/a>.\u00a0 (I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 He really calls it a \u201csupport group\u201d.)\u00a0 He wanders about various Catholic blogs and, whenever the topic turns to how much some commenter loathes me, he offers an invitation to his support group.\u00a0 <\/p>\n What he neglects to mention to these poor souls looking for love in all the wrong places is that what got him banned from my comboxes was his unflagging defense of the valor of the SS and the moving courage of Josef \u201cAuschwitz Angel of Death\u201d Mengele.\u00a0 (You can see him making valuable contributions to the conversation here<\/a> as \u201cLarry C\u201d and \u201cKurt\u201d (and around the web under various other aliases like \u201cUlick Varange<\/a>\u201c.)\u00a0 Also, he seems not to have mentioned his noble support and encouragement of David \u201cMr. Holocaust Denial\u201d Irving<\/a>.<\/p>\n To be clear, I doubt very much any of the folks who signed up for \u201cBanished by Mark Shea\u201d have any idea they are hanging out with a guy who seems curiously comfortable rubbing shoulders with the denizens of\u00a0Nazi.org<\/a>, but it is amusing to contemplate how they would react if they found out.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Moral: Be careful of the company you keep.\u00a0 On the Internet, nobody knows you\u2019re a schweinhund.<\/p>\n This\u00a0one\u2019s for you, Larry!<\/p>\n