Thanks for saying so, but right now I'm feeling like a bit of an idiot, because I failed to pick up on it being a "joke". By the time it was revealed as a joke in the Muse.mu thread, I was writing my response. Not that it would've mattered; I only read the first page before racing off to check it out and counter his ridiculous posturing.

That kind of humor really bothers me, though, especially given his injunction to use force to put an end to Muse's propaganda. That blog could remain accessible on the 'net for decades, for all we know, and absent a context of Musers explaining the joke (apparently Keir himself is being less than forthcoming on his blog), what are others to make of it out of context of the debunkers? (Who hasn't played the hypothetical fantasy of assassinating Hitler, or ask 'what would I do if I was like Christopher Walken's psychic character in The Dead Zone,' etc.? I have a new nightmare now: that someone will read that blog and get The Wrong Idea, big-time!) So for that reason alone, I'm now glad that I went ahead and made an uncool fool of myself.

That Keir a-hole may have intended it as a joke, but he's in such poor control of his craft and message that there could've been unintended consequences.

Regards,

Stephanie