The Lessons To Take From the Blind-Lefties-With-Lots-Of-Free-Time Versus Brittney Gilbert Battle
1. It’s pretty easy to (figuratively) kick someone in the face sitting at a computer keyboard, especially when you hide behind a handle.
2. Mob rule is fun. For members of the mob anyway.
3. The unkindest cuts you can suffer are often at the hands of your own erstwhile friends and allies. They result in sickly feelings of betrayal and, later, utter disillusionment. You are usually not the same person afterwards, and you usually don’t look at these sorts of people the same way ever again. This is not necessarily a bad thing, in the long run.
4. Idiocy knows no ideology. There are moronic liberals and moronic conservatives. And moronic moderates. And moronic whatever-else-you-can-think-up.
5. Stupid people–or, even worse–willfully ignorant people sometimes win. That’s the hardest thing to accept, but, alas, it’s life. I hope to God that Mike Judge is wrong, but I truly fear otherwise.
And one more for good measure:
6. Just a little warning to national blogolanders: when it comes to the Nashville blogosphere, you mess with one of us, then you mess with all of us. Trust me, when one of our fellow local blogger’s getting shafted, we will stand up for him or her, and we don’t care one way or the other about his or her political persuasion or even if we happen to be on good terms. It doesn’t matter. If you’re trying to push one of us around without a good reason for doing it, we will crush you. So, next time, bring your A-game, starting with getting your facts straight before going off half-cocked about something you know nothing about.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
3. The unkindest cuts you can suffer are often at the hands of your own erstwhile friends and allies. They result in sickly feelings of betrayal and, later, utter disillusionment. You are usually not the same person afterwards, and you usually don’t look at these sorts of people the same way ever again. This is not necessarily a bad thing, in the long run.
Roger, fitly spoken. An apple of gold in a picture of silver. I can affirm and confirm every word of that. And the last sentence is especially true. The truth can set you free of illusion and delusion, and that is not a bad thing at all. The truth fully realized can save you a lot of time. Time you should be spending on the true loves of your life.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
This is not necessarily a bad thing, in the long run.
Absolutely. “Know thine enemy” sometimes leads to “we have met the enemy, and he is us”. But it’s always a positive thing when one becomes more aware and more open-eyed to, well, anything, I think.
On another note (yes, I’m fixing to gush again), you are just so awesome I can’t stand it and if you ever need your own set of Rogerettes (with costumes, even!), you know Ivy and Kat and I will be happy to oblige. ;)
June 8th, 2007 at 11:28 am
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June 8th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Yeah, we “outside agitators” ought to have our butts kicked. Why we’d want to comment on a pile of virtual spit hacked upon the body of a good friend of ours is anybody’s guess.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
If you cling to your original position after new facts come to light putting the lie to that position, however ostensibly well-intentioned it may have been, then, yes, you should. And you will.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
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June 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Nicely done, JC General.
And I suppose I should tell you, since you’re not terribly good at detecting such things, that the foregoing was sarcastic.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Tom W, attempting to speak from a position of moral superiority can be very difficult when you’re suffering from a severe case of cranio-anal inversion. It makes it *sooooo* hard to look down your nose at your inferiors.
Perhaps in the future you and your ‘outside agitator’ friends might refrain from piling a virtual load of spit on others? Not that I expect O-dub to refrain from anything.