Pff. Don't you have some NSBB thread to summarize and pawn off as and original thought of yours on your web journal? Anyway, it doesn't matter if it's an inside joke or not. My friends and I have tons of inside jokes that would probably be pretty offensive if I said them to anyone else. But I don't. That's why it's an inside joke. However, it stops being an inside joke when you say it to the media. And when your inside joke smacks of racism, well, there you go. Hooray for personal attacks! this is a side-track from the theriot the racist conversation we've got going, but aren't you pretty close to being a grown-up? do you really need to cry "personal attack!" every time someone calls you out on something? you think you're going to be a sportswriter or something, yet every time someone knocks your blog you go tattle tale to the mods. you do realize that when you're working the beat for the cubs in a few years, people are going to criticize you, right? stand up for yourself once in a while. Stand up for myself? How would one go about doing that on a message board? Should I respond in kind with a personal attack on him? And what part of that was "tattling to the mods." It's pretty ironic that he made the childish personal attack and because I refused to respond in kind you are calling me immature. Don't patronize me, of course I know people will criticize my work.