Anyone of any political stripe who sets out to cause bloggers problems in their real-world lives deserves legal action. I haven’t followed the story in question… too much crap to read, and I read plenty already… but I can’t help hoping the perp’s one day find themselves in the dock for crossing the wrong person, say, a law blogger.

I blog under (more-or-less) my own name. That’s an old habit that is probably not an especially good idea in this day and age, but it’s too late for me to change now.

I’m usually a hard-ass about my research, as my blog buddies will probably tell you. But when I threw this post up, I wanted a quick and dirty image that would make the point, so I could get on to other things I needed to be doing besides blogging. Not up to my usual standards at all - but then again, this is T&P we’re talking about, after all . . . .

And no worries: Your comments were not taken as criticism - or, rather, they were taken as constructive criticism and a valid point that I expected to arise. Unlike the subjects of said post, I don’t regard pointing out potential flaws in my argument (or its “accessories”) as outing-worthy blog-stalking.

Note, please, I am not criticizing you, just applying critical thinking to what I see in the .gif.

Besides, don’t go bringing up things like sticks when Pasty is the topic of discussion - enough phallic issues there already . . . .

I need to blog pseudonymously; I can’t do this under my own name. But even if I did blog under my own name, I can’t envision myself ever outing a right-wing blogger. If I were being stalked [true stalking, not online derision], I can see myself reporting that person’s identity to the police, but outing someone to the blogosphere because - what? He said mean things about my logical capacity? And when yous trip away the layers of bullshit, that’s what this episode amounts to, frankly.