Joe Blow’s Comment Guidlines

Be succinct, constructive and relevant to the story. We encourage engaging, diverse and meaningful commentary. Do not include personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. Comments falling outside our guidelines – those including personal attacks and profanity – are not permitted.

The comment section of this website is made available so that readers may add information (on topic) for the benefit of others.

Name-calling, personal attacks, threats, racist comments or use of profanity by any commenter, whether they are by persons who agree or disagree with the views expressed by Joe Blow will not be tolerated and will result in the deletion of the comment and the banning of the commenter, without notice.

Diatribe personally attacking the messenger,  is not welcome. It is for this reason we do not encourage anonymous comments. Comments are sometimes left visible that violate the above referenced conditions to expose and define the person commenting.

Please remember, this Report is about observations and not about opinions. In other words, this Report is about what is said, not who said it.  Observations are about the object and opinions are about the subject. Opinions are about the Opinionator, consequently opinions are mostly worthless conjecture. With that in mind, if you want to comment on something posted, please click on the “Comments” link at the beginning or end of each post.

Read and Post at your own risk, we do.

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Opinionator:
O*pin”ion*a`tor\, n. An opinionated person; one given to conjecture.

conjecture:
1. the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
2. an opinion or theory so formed or expressed; guess; speculation.

Observation:
1. an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.

2. an act or instance of regarding attentively or watching.

3. the faculty or habit of observing or noticing.

4. notice: to escape a person’s observation.

5. an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose.

6. the information or record secured by such an act.

7. something that is learned in the course of observing things: My observation is that such clouds mean a storm.

8. a remark, comment, or statement based on what one has noticed or observed.

9. the condition of being observed.

…and The World Dictionary

3. detailed examination of phenomena prior to analysis, diagnosis, or interpretation: the patient was under observation

4. the facts learned from observing

Observer:

1. someone or something that observes.

2. a delegate to an assembly or gathering, who is sent to observe and report but not to take part officially in its activities.

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–Joe