She’s not really a hate mongering, bigot… she just plays one on the Internet.

With those sorts of skillz OMMAG probably shouldn’t be looking for a colour commentator job with the CFL, and I certainly wouldn’t want him mucking about with national economics, but CPoC Election Finance HQ might want him.

One of our favourite bloggers, the indomitable Shmohawk, has finally emerged from hibernation. Unfortunately he failed to secure his foot to an appropriate rock when entering dormancy, discovers upon awakening that the world has revolved around him, and finds himself in South Africa.

I’ve always been a bit puzzled by the assertion that Kathy Shaidle is a “good writer”. You can’t tell from her blog, in which self-promotion, auto-martyrdom, logrolling, and lengthy excerpts from other sites jostle for space among her paypal links. And I’ll be damned if I’m actually going to PAY to read her. But as it turns out, I don’t have to: here’s a link to a site where you can savour some of her finest prose, AND learn about Ivana Trump. Bonus!

At what point does leeching an unsecured wireless connection and posting something on a discussion forum become the “hacking of Internet sites“?

– and I hope the judge doesn’t either.

Another libel suit has been launched by Richard Warman & Warren Kinsella against the Free Dominion for accusing “people like Richard Warman & Warren Kinsella” of “Nazi-like behaviour” and thereby seriously prejudicing their reputations and impugning their integrity.

Kathy Shaidle is interviewed on the Al & Mike show this evening regarding the libel/defamation court action which names her, and others brought by Richard Warman. Hear the interview here.

In a previous post on the Warman affair, I took a simplistic, perhaps vindictive, approach to the libel suit that now faces Kate, Kathy and Ezra Levant.

I support free speech. With that speech comes the responsibility not to slander or libel someone unless I can prove the accusation. If that fails then I better be able to back up what I said or wrote with my wallet. That is why this whole episode really makes me yawn. […]

Blame the victim…… and he wonders why people laugh at him.

A convenient way of meeting obligations with the Progressive Bloggers by getting recently updated blog posts into the links section.

Poor Kathy… are not enough people paying attention to you? Do try and remember that haters shouldn’t hate haters - you’ll end up kicked out of the club.

In which balbulican generously assists an unimaginative denizen of the moronoshere with a classic lesson in the formulation of insults.

Courtesy of Canadian Cynic, lefty/progressive/whatever-we-are bloggers are today celebrating two brand new holidays: “Be Polite to People With Whom You Disagree Ideologically” Day, and “Refrain From Scraping Your Genitals Across A Cheese Grater Day”.

A couple of weeks ago the readers of Stageleft - the most knowledgeable consumers of fine bloggery conceivable - established the criteria that define a “Good Political Blog”. Here’s the final summary of what they said.