Weasel Boy's Journal: Thank goodness for journals!

We all have our hot-button issues. Okay, most of us do. Most ignorami I can ignore, but occasionally one trots out some overused piece of misinformation that hits so close to home that I can't let it go undispelled (or, at the very least, unchallenged). I'm sure you know the feeling.

So there you are, hammering away at the keys all afternoon, 3 or 4 browser windows open at once pulling in references, composing a masterpiece of rhetoric to put this yokel in his place. If the parent article is close enough to the top of the first page, you might even get modded up to +5 -- bonus! Life is good.

Time passes. 3 or 4 months go by, and what do you know, your favorite issue is again the topic of the day. And, as surely as night follows day, some other often-in-error-never-in-doubt idiot is spreading the same propaganda that you poured your creative genius into rebutting. "Ha ha," you say, "I have you now! My counterargument is all ready to go, and all I have to do is point you to my previous article!"

Oops! Your article no longer appears in your info page! Of course, you did save the source in a text file on your home machine, but you're at work now, and it would be a waste to post the same article all over again.

Journal to the rescue! A place where the fruits of your intellect won't get lost among the weeds of idiocy; only the choicest plums dangling tantalizingly before your readers' very eyes. A place to which you can easily divert the discussion in the threaded news commentary. That, one hopes, will not be thrown out with the bathwater of lame -1 Anonymous Coward trolls after a few short weeks.

Thanks, guys! We owe you one. Stop by to collect it next time you're in town.