Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing makes some cogent observations about the tendency of certain members of the blogging public to take themselves too seriously:
Then we have the good ole’ arguments. Person A says something on his blog, Person B rebuts and then it’s just rhetorical tricks and nonsense after that. In the middle of these arguments you will always find terms like “Straw Man”, “ad homonem”, “fallacy” and a host of other words no normal person ever uses. It’s like a debating match, and IIRC the debate club was populated by a bunch of geeks who argued over shit no one ever really cared about. It’s like the old maxim: There are two types of people. Those who go out and do shit, and those who sit around arguing about the people who are out doing shit. Bloggers are people who, when they aren’t arguing with each other, are just spouting off about people who are out doing shit. That’s rather pathetic on the face of it, but it only becomes sad when the parties involved become so damned humorless about it. We’re not exactly deciding the fates of nations here, people. I doubt Rumsfeld is loading up Daily Pundit for policy advice.
Daily responded to Sarge, and we’re off.
I never saw a pissing contest I didn’t like, well, with the possible exception of the one Tony Pierce started over the failure of War Bloggers to take Sean Penn seriously. Tony must have swallowed the worm if he thinks Madonna’s ex- has anything to offer the President. The moron is Barbara Lee’s biggest booster, after all.