Under normal circumstances, I'd gently suggest you disengage for your own piece of mind, but you've made me think of something. I always start to feel a little A-Loggish reading the Dobson thread and it's worth considering why that is. There are cows who are objectively worse people - people who are doing real, measurable harm in the world. And yet this sad, round little man is the one who makes nihilistic, cackling, Internet wiseasses begin to bubble with moral superiority and line up to play kick the autistic. Tonight it hit me.
Dobson reminds me of Ric Flair.
No, not the beloved elder statesman of his profession, able to be entertaining even long after his prime. I mean his particular shtick.
For anyone too young to remember or just never gave a shit about pro wrestling, here's how it went down: Ric Flair would talk a big game before the match. Then, once the fight started and he started to get beat up, he would flop around in a manner most pathetic. The "Flair Flop" bears his name to this day. He would stagger around. Grovel on his knees. Beg for mercy while waving his hands in front of his face. "Oh Noooo! Oh please don't hurt me! I'm sooo weak!" The good-guy wrestler, his fist in the air ready to continue the pounding, would consider the nauseating spectacle before him... and turn away in absolute disgust, his face full of revulsion. AND THEN, Ric Flair would jump up and attack him from behind!
Ric Flair was one of the best to ever get in the ring and it wasn't because he was a hero. It was because he played a very specific kind of character and played it very well. The whole point of Ric Flair's character was to inspire so much boiling hatred from the crowd that they would lay down cold hard cash for the pay-per-view just so they could see this guy get the pummeling he so richly deserved.
So yeah. Dobson has exactly one natural talent: Inducing contempt. Give a swift kick as you pass him by.