A Crash Course in Vitriol

Methinks the lady doth protest too much

Apparently, uniquely committed bloglodyte and troll of non-hysterically-left-wing blogs Red Tory has a complaint about a comment contributed here at the Nexus.

In a comment on a recent post, Nexus valued collaborator and soon-to-be contributor to our guest feature, 100 Things for a Better Canada, Spinks properly described Red Tory as "vitrioliuc". Red Tory himself has responded by whining that Spinks' 101 People Who are Screwing Up Canada is vitrioluic.

Then again, Spinks has been categorically praised for the non-partisan value of his work, as he takes aim at Liberals (Jean Chretien, #7), Conservatives (Ralph Klein, #91), the NDP (Svend Robinson, #14), the Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe, #4), judges Beverly MacLachlin, #5) and the media (the paliamentary press gallery, #10).

Red Tory, on the other hand, is noted for the petulant glee with which he attacks bloggers of differing political stripes, and is praised by people who share his penchant for purile attacks on political opponents.

Perhaps 101 People Who are Screwing Up Canada isn't very nice. Then again, it does lack the vicious rhetorical hysteria of "Blogging Tories and Eternal Fascism".

Then again, it is hard to find a blogger anywhere who has managed to make himself a hypocrite half as often as Red Tory.

But thanks for reading.