In an e-mail to someone the other day, I mocked Instapundit's habit of linking pieces by female bloggers with a "sex hook" attached, i.e.:

BOTTOMS UP: [Name of female blogger] sees a connection between Iraqi liberation and sodomy.

But you know something? In retrospect, I needn't have bothered.

Lest someone get the wrong idea: The issue isn't so much that it's sexist. The issue is that it's stupid and annoying.

And speaking of stupid and annoying, the next person who sends me over to BuzzMachine gets a kick in the head. Apparently now old man Jarvis is on some tear about a "citizen's media" association, or something. You know, so we can filter out all those unethical, irresponsible little people whose willingness to throw the contents of their heads onscreen at any time made blog-reading such a joy in the first place.

Someone over at The Truth Laid Bear, in the comments to this post, described the formation of such an association as "NECESSARY." Yes, in all caps and everything.

I remember when companies thought Aeron chairs were NECESSARY, too.

Ugh. No more blog entries about blogging. It leaves me with such a creepy aftertaste. Worse, I'm afraid I'll start thinking any of it matters, and then where would we be?

Posted by Ilyka at April 21, 2004 06:13 PM in hell is other people