Linda, I have loved your writing more than just about anything on the whole internet for the past couple of years.

That has to be my favorite comment thread in the entire history of comment threads. It just keeps getting better and better as the day progresses.

And "tickets to a twin's game" made me giggle uncontrollably. I am picturing t-ball with cute little five-year old cherubs with rhyming names and matching outfits.

(Suddenly quite self-conscious about hyphenation...)

Man, Average Joe the "Writer" is angry. Here's the thing about guys like that: by attacking and insulting you without foundation, and by showing a complete lack of understanding of the point you were making in your posts about Average Joe, he just opens himself up to even more ridicule. The odd thing is that not more than an hour ago I had to put a post on my legal type site making light of the guy who attacked me in two of my comments threads, and who completely missed the points of my posts as well. It's like you and me Linda are connected on some kinda Internet psychic level. Or not. Yeah, probably not. Anyway, welcome back. It's been a long week without you.

Oh man, I just clicked on his name and up popped his phony e-mail address. He's witty too.

Has anyone forwarded this to the sports editor at the paper in question yet? That could be fun!

It continues to amaze me that people who bitch about things they read about themselves on the internet think that their responses to said things are completely original and like we haven't already heard them eight hundred billion times before.

This was a classic, though: "Your mistaken opinion of me on your inferior medium is entirely beneath my notice, and I want to make sure you and the rest of the world know how very far beneath my notice it is. Do you hear me?!"

As a writer, sports or otherwise, he should have done his research to find out that YOU indeed have been published more than just on your Web site and that your Web site alone probably has more readers than he does.

And that you can spell and punctuate properly. And you're not afraid to tell us who you are.

Anonymity is good sometimes, but when you're going to criticize someone, admit who you are or you lose all credibility.

As a sports journalist, I've been following this whole thing closely, AND loving it! You seriously are great, Linda, for even mentioning stuff like this, let alone making it such a public debate -- and an interesting one.

Jeez. When you wrote "self-Googling gone horribly awry," I did not realize how accurate that was. Average Joe is flustered, isnt he?

But I'm with Amy - comment thread entertainment at its finest. Heh.

If that guy read more than one thing on this site he would know you could write him into a corner, where he would be left crying and whimpering for his mommy. In fact, I bet he did read everything, knew he was licked , and so just proceeded to asshat his way through the argument.

I echo Amy in that you are consistently one of the best writers I have the pleasure to read, and just because your work appears on the internet does not make it any less of a marvel.

You mean, like, spelling and grammar count?!?! When it's not for class? Dude. That is totally unfair, man.