Poor 'Hesiod' whines (10/29, 11:15:59 AM) that I "didn't bother" linking to him in yesterday's post. It would have been less bother to link than to put in the dates and times, but I have a policy of not linking to lying weasels. Of course, he doesn't bother to answer any of my objections to his argument.

Now he writes:

The act of Fellatio, between two consenting adults, can be quite fun.

That's certainly good to know. After a brief (and welcome) excursus explaining that his marital relations are none of our business, he continues:

If anything, it symbolizes a total and complete submission to another individual [or, more abstractly, an idea or cause].

Apparently poor Hesiod thinks of fellatio only as a way for the suckee to dominate the sucker (to put it crudely). That he still thinks it "quite fun" is disturbing, to say the least. The idea that some might like to give or receive fellatio (or cunnilingus) in a spirit of sharing or tenderness or love, or because they find that particular form of stimulation particularly stimulating, doesn't seem to have occurred to him. With 'Hesiod', it's all about domination and submission. If he ever hears about the "69" position, he will probably blow (if you'll excuse the pun) a mental gasket: how can A be dominating a submissive B while simultaneously submitting to a dominant A? It's like an M.C. Escher staircase, which goes down (sorry) in both directions!

Among many other hilariously stoopid things, he also writes:

Weevil, strangely, prefers that I compare him to Ari Fleischer or Karl Rove.

That's not at all what I said, or what I meant, of course. (It never is with 'Hesiod'.) And how strange is it to prefer being a Rove or a Fleischer to being a Riefenstahl? Surely only 'Hesiod' would choose the latter. He continues:

If you prefer, Weevy. Does that mean you admit to being a two-bit lying political hack, devoid of scruples, and with an abiding contempt for the American people?

Well, no. If that's what I thought of myself, I would have asked to be compared to 'Hesiod', who fits the bill in every detail. (Does this guy have any sense of irony whatsoever? He recently threatened to send his wife out to beat up anyone who called him "lame": isn't that threat kind of, well, lame?)

By the way, 'Hesiod' has finally learned to edit his spelling. His archives seem to be hosed, but one of his posts last week was only up for three days before he fixed the first word of the title: for 'THW' it now reads 'THE'. Rather like what Mary McCarthy said of Lillian Hellmann, every word 'Hesiod' writes is botched, even 'amd' and 'thw'.

Some of my commenters ask why I do not treat 'Hesiod' as a common troll and ignore him. As long as he has a place in the permalinks of respectable webloggers such as Ted Barlow and (perhaps not quite so respectable) Eric Alterman and Max Sawicky, I will keep pointing out his innumerable faults of logic, language, and common decency. They can keep linking to him, but others can also draw their own conclusions from the company they choose to keep.