97: End of Hate
Topic: Pictures a Go-Go
I don't know who has been reading this long enough to remember my old segment, "Stupid Conservative of the Day", but alas it was a really stupid idea of mine.
Anyway, at one point I named Nik Nelson (a kid at my school) this, simply because I didn't like an article he wrote in the school newspaper.
On this site I slammed him for his political beliefs and on my RT Journal I called him, at one point, "Nik fuckin Nelson".
These were immature and needless comments. I would like to retract both of them and any other baseless insult I have directed at him.
Why the change of heart? Well, a few days a ago, he say behind me at an all school Mass and my friend pointed at him and said "Joe, look, it's your mortal nemisis!"
Realizing that he had a point, I felt kind of bad. I don't want a mortal nemesis. So, I talked to Nelson briefly and he stated that he wasn't trying to be a journalist with his Right-Wing editorials. He then assured me that he wasn't "that much of a dick". I responded, "I like to think I'm not that much one one either".
Via email, anyone can sound evil -- however, its different in person. He didn't seem to be that bad of a guy, so I offered him my handshake and said, "Our emails have gotten kind of harsh, but I just want to say -- 'No hard feelings?'..."
He shook my hand and that was it. At that point, I stopped hating him. I immidiately decided to make this post on my blog.
So, on my behalf and behalf of this weblog, I would like to retract all my mean-spirited comments and offer my apologizes to Nik Nelson.
-Joe
