Anna Raccoon has stopped blogging for a while but her site continues under guest supervision and is keeping up Anna’s brisk pace.

But if you are interested in the dark underbelly of blogging – and who is not? – check out this posting over at Constantly Furious and the ensuing brawling comments, including one (eventually) from Anna herself.

Nothing like a squabble between self-styled libertarians to bring out some base instincts?

As for the charges of censorship which are hurled back and forth in that bun-fight, I will make my own policy clear once again.

I want my own website to a place for fair-minded and interesting but not necessarily ‘reasonable’ views to be aired by anyone minded to air them. But this is not a place for people to play out their tedious private feuds. Plus rudeness and unpleasant bloody-mindedness will be suppressed here, as there are so many other fine places to express them.

My site. My rules:

Interesting, pertinent, thought-provoking, witty and perceptive comments are especially welcome. Comments which seem to Charles Crawford to be libellous, obscene, pornographic, unnecessarily offensive, menacing, false, unnaturally long/boring, misleading or otherwise objectionable are liable not to be posted or to be deleted without warning. Alternatively he may highlight them to draw wider attention to the commenter’s seeming discourtesy.