A storm in someone else's teacup :: 10:57 AM :: easyjetsetter

When an American blogger living in Britain and an American editor/journalist working on a British paper disagree.

Boys, I know you're enjoying yourselves immensely, but I was rather proud that the British blogging world wasn't as focused on "scalping" and "fisking" and such. Please go lower your own country's discourse.


Yes, Dilpazier Aslam is a tit and he said some idiot things. But there are lots of tits saying idiot things in Britain's newspapers. I'm bloody proud that we have a partisan press. It's a lot more interesting that dry, supposedly objective dusty tomes. There's a reason they call it dead-tree media over there.

I can't stand people like Polly Toynbee or Mark Steyn, I think they let ideology block their brains. But these partisan columnists in mainstream media are something to be proud of, even while I shout my disagrement at them.

Some of them are even members of extremist groups. I have it on good authority, for example, that that seemingly nice Boris Johnson chap who writes for the Telegraph may be a member of a shadowy organization that advocates a return to an oppressive, totalitarian regime called "Thatcherism."

Go piss in your own pool. I'm trying to swim.