We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
We wrote about how the acting city manager of League City — a middle-aged white guy — was suspended for using the N-word in a discussion of the BCS title game.
Some folks went to the tired old “black people use that word all the time” card, which led another reader to react.
Grant wrote:
Wait, are people in the comments below actually arguing for the open use of the ‘n-word’? What’s next a poll tax?
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.