It Ain't Just About Etiquette, Darlin':Blog Critics, the Digital Divide and the Legion of Doom?

I got a link e-mailed to me a while ago. A friend of mine, who'd forgotten my blog URL, hit up some search engine and found a rather bizarre critique of one of my posts at some site called Democratic Underground.

Apparently, some woman I've never met, nicknamed the Scrivener, decided to offer a critique of a post of mine regarding the double-murder of a husband and wife a few weeks ago.

Apparently, this person thought it might be amusing to make fun at the number of people who linked to the accused killer and his girlfriend's blogs, including a college student from Northampton, Mass., a Christian System Administrator's blog, and the 6,000 others who posted about this tragedy.

And then the Scrivener went back to joining the more than 300 thousand bloggers posting about politics.

This friend of mine was wondering what I thought about this and what I was going to post in response. Apparently, she was more appalled than I was.

My reaction?

I literally was rolling on the ground, laughing so hard I could barely breathe. I laughed so hard I got hiccups and I think I bruised my ass when I fell off the couch.

I got this image in my head, of the old Superfriends cartoons (one of my favorites).

I got this vision of my friend visualizing me under attack from some blogger version of the Legion of Doom, the Zenformation Professional doing battle with the mysterious Scrivener.

Jeez, if that were the case, I'd rather be Green Lantern...a cool emerald ring controlled by my will is so much more badass than the ability to bang away on a laptop and hit "Publish Post."

For those out there who take blogging too seriously or think that somehow that the World Wide Web makes them some sort of World Wide Superstar, how about some of the latest statistics - little more than 15 percent of the world's nearly 6.5 billion people have access to the Internet.

Don't take blogging too seriously, because most of the world could really give a rat's ass.

Yeah, that's why they call it a Digital Divide.


Now, off to a Justice League meeting ... heard something at work about the Batmobile losing a wheel and the Joker getting away.

Damn, I hate Spandex.

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Special Shout-Out to Zydeco Fish, who's had some jackass post-bombing his site with worthless drivel, and Stephi over at BlOgbuefi, who's been busting her tail and fighting apathy for the Miami University Students for Staff Living Wage Campaign.