Tim Blair

I like this tabloid format. I think it could have blog-legs...

Even when Tim writes Margo's Blogjam for her he STILL misses out on getting a link.

Blogmire.

Oh god, Miranda is back. And dumber than ever.
Yay.

tim, i know you have certain kneejerk reactions to the concept of drug users, but in fact my junkie wasn't 'lowly' at all. he was actually a very, very special person, rest his soul. maybe i'll tell his story one day, but that would mean going even more tabloid, and She Sells Sanctuary always fancied itself as more of a broadsheet blog.

What was so special about him, Giana? That romantic drip of snot on the tip of his runny nose? That he put the cap back on the cough medicine he drank when he couldn't score? Those attractive sores on his arms? What the jaundice from Hep C did for his complexion? His skill at breaking into neighbours' homes and ripping off their stuff?

You should give Harley some of his old syringes to play with, encourage him to be a "special person" too.

I hope Harley's dad is a genius. He'd need to be to make up for his mother's IQ shortfall. The only smart person in the family is your father, who avoids coming inside your home. If he did, he'd slap you in frustration for being so fucking stupid.

"Superboot" - if you're going to do a vitriolic beat up on Gianna, the 'righteousness' of your case would be assisted by dropping your anonymity. It looks kind of gutless.

Gutlessness isn't a shortcoming. It makes me a special person too.

Yeah. "Special," springs to mind, along with some other descriptions.......

What "Special" like Quentin?

Gianna, he was 'very, very special' but not special enough for you to tell his story because you fancy yourself as broadsheet.

Am I confused?

No. You are.

INTERNET TROLL FOUND DEAD AT HER DESK
Life Copies a Really F-ed Up Version of Citizen Kane

A lonely woman who hadn't been out of her house for three months was found dead in her own home after neighbors complained about the smell.

A ghastly sight awaited the authorities upon entering the cramped little hovel, but the questions raised by the contents of the woman's computer were even more disturbing. A webcam had caught her final moments on tape.

"Apparently she spent a lot of time posting angry anonymous messages on a weblog. The expressions on her face as she did so still haunt my dreams," explained one shaken investigator, "She would bang the keyboard viciously with her stubby, claw-like fingers and foam would squeeze out of her lips. Sometimes she made long posts, but as her derangement progressed she ran out of things to say. By her last post, she had boiled everything down into one word."

The meaning of this last word typed by this woman remains a mystery. Some suspect she just made it up. "All we do know is that the veins in her head started swelling dangerously as she hammered out the final letters, trying to cram all of her hate into one eight letter word. Just as she clicked the 'post' button, she suffered massive hemmoraging in the brain and died instantly," said the investigator.

"I've seen people killed by cars, guns, explosives, fire, but this was the first person I saw killed by their own hate. It was terrifying."

The last word of the angry troll still reverberates on the internet like a ghost.

Blogmire.

I ♥ Sortelli. (But I'm not having your kid and naming him after a motorcycle brand, or any other vehicle for that matter, so don't get any ideas!)

Sortelli: Brilliant!

Shucks. Making trolls look dumber is my civic duty!

Stunning, Sortelli. Simply fantastic. You should write for Hollywood....ummmmm, no, they wouldn't be able to deal with your abilities. OK, the New York Times.......possibly not, a slight philosophical difference, I think.

Perhaps some media company would use you, but I expect you would be left in a corner, and all of your copy s**t canned. What a waste.

Well, we certainly appreciate you! Hang around for a while, would you?

Hang around for a while, would you?

Or at least until Miranda reads that and her head really explodes.

(waiting with fingers crossed...)

yawn...pretty predictable responses, and once again proving your readers have no sense of humour nor an ounce of compassion between them.

geez, don't you ever get embarrassed by the kind of readers you attract, tim? is it worth it?

Yeah, just fucking brill. You've got 'superboot' and 'jeffs' on board... with a bit more imagination, we may all hop on for the most magical ride of our lives.

But face it, you'll always be on the sidelines hoping someone will see you waving. No will bother writing long-winded posts about you, except maybe this one. Oh look, you've faded into nothing already!

Blogmire.

Gianna, I went to your blog, and read a number of your posts. I have a sense of humor and compassion, but my compassion goes.....where I want it to go. And it won't go for the situation I saw described there. My humor is what it is, and I don't apologize for it. If you want to convert anyone to your cause and/or way of life, don't try and make them feel guilty. It's counterproductive.

Miranda, your sense of logic and grasp of rhetoric astonishes me. One would think you are perhaps an aspiring Nobel prize winner for literature. It's easy to see why you have so many friends here at Tim's blog. Your contributions to intelligent discourse are simply brilliant. But, if I may be so bold to point out, you are not the center of the universe, and probably never be. This is true for many people, including celebrities. We are born, we live, we die. During that process, we make a contribution to the improvement of humanity. If you would accept our part in life, perhaps your posts would be taken more seriously.

Sincerely,

Why do I get the feeling that Miranda was looking into a mirror when she typed that?

You mean Miranda can see herself in a mirror?

Count Blogula.

Jeffs (are you multiple?) why the hell should i care less if the blogmire "takes me sweriously"?!

You call this a community? I call it a cabbal. For example, this is place where people who hate Muslims can feel welcome. I know this everytime the bloghead sets you up for another blast at Islam. And of course you respond, happily.

Plse point me to the bloghead's "contribution to the improvement of humanity". Blair is smug young fogey, an agitator, trying to sell some adds and further a flagging career by pushing hot-button issues. Could he care less for instance about the innocent refugee children still in detention in Australia? Half if them are Iraqis by the way. NO, instead he will proudly tell you they deserve to have their childhoods destroyed by incarceration.

You guys kill me. What possible contribution are you making here except to your own bloated sense of self-aggrandisement. Me? I'm just a dumb troll. Why should you NEED me to take you seriously?