We all blog our own ways. Xanga is a venue for expressions of each of our visions our way. I actually agree with many of your characterizations of In_Reason_I_Trust, I disagree with your larger thesis: Fuck you for telling us how to blog. Fuck you for trying to set the standard.

Insidiously, your argument assumes credulity of Xanga as a whole. Nearly all of us are old enough and well read enough to understand that each person and each blogger is different. One bad apple doesn't taint the barrel. It is condensending to assume this stupidity of your readers.

It is well within Reason's rights to form the expectations and the context for his blog. Just as some of us put our accounts on Friend's lock or blog to a specific audience, Reason communicates to the hard-atheist crowd.

In a different blog, I just admitted that Reason, to me, is "everything a debating Xangan shouldn't be," but this doesn't mean he has no place. I appreciate his vim, and his fighting spirit. I appreciate the humor of his blog's entries (as exclusive as they may be). To me, and many others, Reason occupies a niche. While he doesn't matter to you, he does to his readership.

You are entirely correct in your criticism of the winnowing effect of his blog's expectations. I agree that his style kills discussions, but where you're wrong is the extra step you take in larger condemnation.

If Reason isn't for you, ignore him. If you don't like the blogging trends he helps propagate, try to dwell on it. But at the point where he isn't making a proactive attempt to hijack or troll your site, you sir, have no right to ask him to stop.

In your larger criticism, you are commiting a crime greater than bad taste, and a crime greater than unreasonability: That of censorship.

And good sir, kindly fuck off.