“Your one of those people who write well but never say anything important.”

*** Well, thanks Linda! I’m glad we have you to decide what is important and what is not. Nota bene: “your” is possessive, “you’re” is what you meant to write. But I’m sure you will now (”won’t̶ make that mistake again.

“Your well written words are boring and lack any type of feelings.”

*** But at least your (you got it right this time. Kudos!) criticism is constructive. But if I bore you, how’s this: Don’t read. Seriously. If I am not interesting to you, why the hell are you here? And why are you commenting? If my writing is boring, what does it say about someone who is reading it and then taking the time to write comments?

“If your going to write about South Africa.”

*** Oh dear. First off, this is not actually a sentence. Second: You’re. seriously. Once is a typo or an innocent mistake, both of which I make all the time. Twice leads me to believe that you do not know how to use apostrophes.

“You left some major issues out, when your describing your home land.”

*** Given that you are (you’re) posting this at the Africa blog, and given that you are posting this on a post where I explicitly talk about returning to the US, I’m curious what you think my home land is.

“Rape capital of the world.”

*** Ok. Not certain what your point is. On the South Africa blog I have talked about rape and crime.

“Babies being raped as small as 6 months old.”

*** Yes, I have not written about the rape of infants. Because I believe that most of these stories are sensationalist and do not actually help us learn anything. And in any case, I cannot possibly write about every issue. If you want greater coverage, by all means, subscribe to a damned newspaper.

\”!0 times more likely to commit a violent crime then the USA.”

*** Again: I’ve written about crime and I’ve written about it quite extensively.

“Hospital, schools, coruption.”

*** These are just words. You have the noun part of writing sentences down. Now how about verbs. Let me help you — what about hospitals? What about schools? What about corruption?

“White farm murders.”

*** In South Africa or in Zimbabwe? Given that your comments have nothing to do with the post to which the comments are attached, I hope you can get a sense of my confusion.

“HOT IRON if you know what I mean.”

*** No clue what you mean, actually, and the all-caps don’t actually help.

“Those in glass houses, shouldn not throw stones.”

*** What the hell are you talking about? Seriously. i have no idea what this means. What glass house do you think I live in, and what are you talking about.

“Don’t slam my country!!!!”

*** Again, what country have I slammed, and what are you talking about?

“Short but sweet.”

And, I fear, mildly retarded.

dc