It's a blog post, not a doctoral thesis

I recently had the joy of another blogger dissecting one of my blog posts. It really was sort of funny in a way. Something that I had written struck a nerve. Enough so that they actually dedicated digital real estate on their blog to tell people why they didn't like my post. (BTW, thank you Bear Blog analytics for including referring domains as part of the analytics package.) Before I go into this a bit deeper, I enjoy reading lots of independent bloggers posts. Sometimes I agree with the post. Sometimes I don't. I've never felt compelled to quote and then critique another person's writing because I didn't agree with what they said. I realize that bloggers are sometimes incredibly detailed in their arguments and others just write from a stream of consciousness. I have zero expectations that another blogger needs to support every viewpoint with facts, data, or lengthy explanations qualifying what they wrote and why they wrote it. It's a freaking blog post, not a doctoral thesis. With…