Like many bloggers, I read Althouse and her commenters now and then, almost as consistently, in fact, as I read Instapundit, which is daily. So naturally I ran across the troll The Crack Emcee, a purported black American (and supposed half-sibling to the late jazz bassist Charlie Mingus, according to TCE’s Blogger profile) who examines everything (and I mean everything) through the filter of race.

Even her/his handle, supposedly, since it’s well known that mostly blacks use crack, the cheap version of cocaine. His/her avatar also is of a black man wearing shades. S/he (you can’t be sure of gender with anonymice) is pretty boring most of the time, as trolls generally are, with all the usual racist twaddle as if s/he is still stuck in 1963 wondering if Medgar will ever get justice.

It’s the other commenters who’ve finally begun firing back at him/her that’re amusing. Violating the first rule to never feed the troll, i.e. by acknowledging their existence. Amusing enough, however, for me to make a post about it. Such as Michael K.: “Do you ever have another thought cross your alleged mind? Al Sharpton is bright compared to you. Unless, of course, you are a racist white guy making blacks look stupid.”

Could be. As they used to say (and still should) on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog. Unless you comment like the troll The Crack Emcee and prove it time after time. Or maybe I’m just jealous, not having had a troll of my own in a long time. I must have scared them all off. Even trolls can only take so much mockery.