Reader: Do they want some cheese with that whine?

Maybe the heat is getting to everyone. When last we looked, our post on Mitch Woolhiser's problems with deductions, "Medical marijuana dispensaries can't deduct business expenses on state tax returns," had close to 300 comments -- many of them from the same handful of people. And tempers were flaring hot...

By Patricia Calhoun

July 6, 2012

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Maybe the heat is getting to everyone. When last we looked, our post on Mitch Woolhiser's problems with deductions, "Medical marijuana dispensaries can't deduct business expenses on state tax returns," had close to 300 comments -- many of them from the same handful of people.

And tempers were flaring hot as the Waldo Canyon fire as it raced out of control last week.

Says Too Many Trolls:

OMG! What have Westword's comment sections become???

The above comments where nothing more than four or five people ranting on like little petulant children.

God save the Queen.

But Guest gets to the real question in his/her comment:

Yes KARMA is at work and listen to them, Do they want some cheese with that whine?

Are those his real eyebrows?

Read the entire exchange at the end of this post.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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