Charming. August 3, 2006 zuzu Yet another outing by one of those integrity types. ETA: Oh, Jesus. He’s doing it again. And he’s even comparing a fixation on cock-slapping to Swift. And you know how I feel about that.
I wonder if alcohol was fueling Mr. Patterico’s actions… after all who goes trolling about a Michelle Malkin post at 3AM? Isn’t it funny though how he was trying to bully TBogg by threatening him with the outing? Anyway, some sure do show their true colors (or is it colours now?) on these internet tubes.
What’s with all this outing b.s. anyway? Blogging under a pseudonym doesn’t make one’s arguments any less valid. And saying vile, dishonest, incoherent crap doesn’t make you courageous just because you use your real name. The reason those jerks don’t like people blogging under pseudonyms is because it makes it harder to personally attack them.
It would be interesting to see how the idjits reacted if Goldstein was pwned by someone blogging under his or her real name, who made no secret of where s/he lives and works. Oh, wait.
Right, raging red. The only difference between a pseudonymous blogger and a real-name one is that it’s a lot easier to extract revenge offline on the real-name one. That’s what this is about: Making words written online actionable. Holding people accountable, I guess for not sitting the Pattericos of the world down and patiently explaining to them that computers come with an off switch. Someone said something to you online you don’t like? Turn the machine off. Go have a drink. Go get laid. Go watch a movie. Go get a life! Fucking lawyers. Oh! Sorry, zuzu. Fucking lawyers except zuzu, I meant. By the way, when is Feministe gonna hold a fundraiser over this? I hear that’s all the rage anymore, holding fundraisers because someone threatened you online. Feministe should have a fundraiser. You can call it “Tittes-a-thon 2006.”
Patterico and Goldstein use personal information as weapons. Though I thought it was defense attorneys who went sniffing through victims’ lives to prove they deserved what they got. Anyhoo, picking up on zuzu’s point, I think the ideal Swiftian response would come under the pseudonym of ‘Isaac Bickerstaffe’.
blinded. I’m blinded. How much I’ve missed heretofore by not following the right-wing bloggers and their spoor.