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I don't think this page has many readers left from 1999. Jen, maybe. Maybe. Perhaps it's the nature of the site for people to eventually become offended and leave. Often times, they leave with a flourish. They tell me how I was a soldier in their fight, and they tell me how I betrayed them.

Republicans dropped like flies when I made the argument in 2004 that John Kerry was the more conservative option. Any time I take on fundamentalist Christians, I get some heat, but for some reason this modest post about Pat Robertson elicited the greatest number of subscription cancellations in site history, not to mention the biggest number of referrals from Google Images. A post in which I noted that a man traded a mental disorder for Christianity drew the largest number of threats on my person, all from one IP address in Tulsa. Meanwhile, a tweaking of Islamic fundamentalists drew no outrage, no comment at all. Each time I rag on the ditzy left, I lose a few whimpering puppy dogs. Any time I tackle inadvertant racist language, surely a paradox if ever there were one, the black readership rises up to smite me. Likewise when I suggest that accusations of racism have become a cheap means to power, much like accusations of communism in the 1950s. And in the most curious case of all, I lost a few feminist readers when I mocked Newsweek's "Women in Leadership" issue. Read the post, and you tell me who's demeaning women.