But this is his swang song? Save me.

I stopped reading Den Beste on a regular basis at least a year ago, simply because his posts were too damned long for me to get into, and often on subjects I was substantially less interested than he.

But, what a terrible reason to stop writing. Writers — most of whom are not engineers — learn to accept unuseful criticism (i.e. by ignoring it).

Den Beste doesn’t like the bath water, which makes sense. But I take it that he doesn’t like the baby either, so he he’s hiding the baby in the bathwater. Watch out, the baby will drown!

What a strange metaphor. Not mixed, just remixed. But hey, it’s 5 a.m., I’m hung over, and I’m at work. If I was Steven Den Beste, I’d probably be announcing the demise of my blog.