Ding-dong, We Have So Many Maggots!

I'm finishing up some course material development on blogs and decided to take a blogging break.  Not surprisingly, I've had a difficult time this week writing about stuff that doesn't come from the heart, so it's been a bit of a slow slog.  But the text is finally coming together.

Anyway, since I've been embroiled in a variety of personal controversies involving friends and family recently, another "outing" (via Pandagon) has sparked my ire.  I was going to post about it over at Blogintegrity, but since Blogger is bloggered, I'll do it here instead.

The story involves some sad irony, as Armando, a frontpage Kossack and one of the lefty signatories to the silly Online Integrity pledge, is at the heart of the wingersphere's latest heinous act:

A major Right wing site has chosen to support a troll's campaign started at this site to out me.

The writing is on the wall. I will likely be giving up blogging as a result.

If people were wondering about why I was so adamant about this, I hope this explains it.

I have never written about my clients and whenever I had a conflict, I disclosed it. But people of ill will have no decency or  limits.

If I sound bitter, it is because I am quite bitter about this. 

So, this is probably so long kossacks and bloggers. I fade away.

I won't link to the offending site (though you'll be able to find it if you're not even moderately Clever and Integritous), but suffice to say this is truly another disgusting example of the Right trying to drive away Lefty bloggers.  All of Pasty's lovely commenters can spare me the usual litany of hey, it's no fair he criticizes people from the safety of anonymity and it's all public information and other bullshit justifications.  Once again this shows you folks have no sense of common decency beyond your myopic worldview of "winning" at all costs.  You are maggots.

Speaking of maggots, I liked to explain the post title.  Back in college, one of my friends had a sign on his dormroom door that said "Ding-dong, we have so many maggots!"  He would also say that in a rather funny way at odd times, and it became sort of a catchall phrase our frosh year.

He explained that it comes from an old radio routine by The Greaseman.  He would refer to (rather, uh...dumb) people who called into his program as 'maggots' and had a little song to go with the schtick.  Perfect description for the folks who outed Armando, 'cept that's probably unfair to maggots.

ntodd

PS--To OI's credit, they have requested that the maggot in question remove the private information.  Alas, the damage is already done.