So I’m checking the “Technorati Link Cosmos” for Stageleft and find an inbound link from a blog named “Brock: On the Attack” doing some “true attacking” as part of “Liberal Blog BashFest 2004″

- - it was a pretty short BashFest, only 5 liberal blogs were bashed so I guess maybe I should be honoured to be among the chosen few. I briefly considered playing the all powerful “ho-hum” defense card in response to Brocks initial attack of

Now I’m sure that somebody is going to say something stupid like: “You right-wingers can’t win an argument with us on the left, so all you do is insult us”. And just to let you know: I agree with you on this in advance. I can’t win arguments with you because you are too stupid to comprehend my advanced poltical concepts. It’s beyond your intellectual capacity and I understand that.

… but figured it would be trumped by some “advanced poltical concepts” and decided to save it for something like

Skimming across his blog, we find the traditional liberal issues ranging from aboriginals to gay marriage rights, undying love for the UN, etc. but for the most part, its boring nonsense.

… maybe I’ll just spend the rest of the evening contemplating hanging up the ‘ole keyboard, my itty-bitty feelings have been hurt here - I’m the sensitive type you know, how is one supposed to stand up to such scathing commentary anyway?

(The content of this post came from an older pMachine incarnation of stageleft with a different hosting company - comments, if any, didn’t make it into the rebuild)