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I’ve given my friend Jason guest blogging privs.  He had an out of battery explosion of a 9mm round that landed him in the ER.  He’s fine, but I’ve given him posting privs so that he can tell us all about it.

Bruce is asking blogs not to show the deranged loser’s picture.  I’ll go one more and not even mention his name as anything other than deranged loser, deranged killer, psycho boy, mass killer, or other such unfriendly invective.

Sorry for the light blogging tonight.   I’ll be liveblogging the convention.   For your entertainment tonight, be sure to read Bill Whittle’s latest essay.

Just because it’s your sandbox, doesn’t mean you should be a brat to all the other kids in the neighborhood, because they don’t want to play the same way you do. It’s a good lesson, I think.

UPDATE: The continuing controversy is making me consider proposing a new verb:

Althoused
verb

1. The act of being shunned, dismissed, ridiculed, and insulted by lefty bloggers for disagreeing with them on the issues of the day.  Can also be caused by pointing out lefty hypocrisies.

Usage: #9 got seriously althoused over at KnoxViews.

Hopefully Prof. Althouse isn’t insulted by this proposed verb, but she’s the most prominent target of this type of behavior I’ve seen to date.  But it appears she’s not the only one who causes the lefty blogosphere to start stoking the fire underneath the stakes.

Got in late last night, so didn’t get anything going up for today.  At work today I have a vendor in to upgrade a software product, and will be busy babysitting that process in addition to other things.  Will be more busy with blogging once I get home.

I can remember a while ago reading Ann’s post on Jessica Valenti’s picture appearing with Bill Clinton before it became the controversy it is today.  For the record, I thought it was a legitimate challenge to that group of bloggers.  Ann’s latest post is a good reminder of what was being asked:

And I still maintain that it was absolutely justified to mock that photograph. Distort what I was really saying there all you want, but the fact remains: Cozying up to Bill Clinton is not something a feminist should be doing…

I don’t see why that’s not a legitimate assertion.  I can see why some people would be upset by this, but does it really warrant a witch hunt?  Can reasonable people no longer disagree?

Dave Hardy is looking for some ideas for promoting his documentary In Search of the Second Amendment. I’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should too.

Now, I’m not a marketing type. But I do know there’s no such thing as bad publicity. It’s well known that a sure way to sell copies of something is for someone to try to get it banned. This might be a bit tough, since I doubt the Brady Campaign would be willing participants in this endeavor. But there’s always pissing off the right! Maybe Christina the Stripper would be willing to pose topless with a copy of the documentary (you can use your imagination on the pose). That will surely get James Dobson’s attention. A condemnation of the documentary would surly follow, and I doubt Dave could stuff the envelopes fast enough after that.

The other option would be to slip it into the car of some celebrity or professional athlete. The headlines practically write themselves after that:

Famous actor arrested while soliciting a prostitute. Found in his vehicle were 30 grams of cocaine, a loaded pistol, and a copy of the documentary “In Search of the Second Amendment” by Dave Hardy.

As soon as that hits the papers and screens, the post office in Dave’s town will have to hire extra people just to keep up with the extra volume!

Ann Althouse’s latest statement about her calling out feminist bloggers for appearing enthusiastically with Bill Clinton I’m sure is going to make the lefty blogosphere seeth with even more anger:

So I called attention to the fact that Jessica Valenti, positioned right in front of Clinton, did look a bit like that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I thought the photograph was set up in a way that was detrimental to the Clintons’ interests, and I thought that was funny and that it presented an opportunity for some painful satire. I made it quite nasty, and I did it deliberately. I’m not sorry I did it. I mean to castigate feminists and so-called feminists who cozy up to Clinton. They were surely justified in fighting back at me, and I can understand why they want to ruin me.

Maybe so, but why isn’t it legitimate to question why Bill Clinton gets a free pass from feminists when he is, by all accounts, a sleaze ball when it comes to women. Let’s face it guys, Bill Clinton is the kind of guy if you found out your wife, girlfriend or sister were working for, you probably wouldn’t exactly feel good about it. We all know the type.

I think it’s a legitimate question, just as it is asking Newt Gingrich why he was crucifying Clinton when he himself was involved in his own affair. Politicians are, probably more often than not, distasteful human beings. You’d think the left, of all people, would know that, and would be willing to talk about it civilly once they got over the initial anger at being called out on the double standard.

One if my big beefs with the left is their general unwillingness to have a dialog; someone strays off the reservation, and it’s time to bring out the torches and pitchforks. It’s not a way to build a lasting political movement. In our community, we need to be careful of that as well.