Spoons links to the smoking gun that proves that all persons of goodwill should de-link the Daily Kotze immediately. I agree, but seeing as I had never linked to that virtual rag to begin with, there was nothing for me to de-link. No problem. Just to be a real bastard, I added these turkeys to my blogroll, then promptly removed them. That’ll learn ‘em. Take that, Daily Kotze.

UPDATE: Fried Man is going beyond the delinkage ceremony and hitting Kotze where it hurts. Assuming, that is, that Mr. Kotze isn’t too much of a commie to even care about lost advertising revenues.

UPDATE x2: After re-reading the entry, I note that it was dated yesterday, i.e. April Fool’s Day. Even if this was an April Fooler, it was a pretty tasteless one.

UPDATE x3: Wrong again. Today’s entry makes it clear that yesterday’s was not a sick attempt at a joke after all.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Kotze has pulled a Kerry and removed yesterday’s entry, replacing it with a redirect to today’s non-apology apology. According to Charles Johnson (LGF), he’s even gone as far as to delete the entry from the Google cache, which I didn’t know was even possible (for anyone not employed by Google, that is). Unfortuately for Mr. Kotze, he can’t delete his post from LGF’s site, nor for that matter, from mine. Here it is, for posterity:

Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly.

That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

Fortunately, courtesy of Michael Friedman (a.k.a. Fried Man), that post isn’t the only thing that’s disappeared from Kotze’s disgusting site. Well done, soldier.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Actually, that’s not quite right. Apparently, all Kotze managed to delete was the permalink, not the entry itself. You can still find the original on his site by following a link to an earlier entry and then scrolling down about 19 screens (or just search for the word “screw”). Or, perhaps this was deliberate; make the offending entry as hard to find as possible, but don’t actually delete it so your minions can get all uppity when others accuse you of deleting it. Who knows? Who cares? Either way, it was a sleazy thing to do.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Matthew Hoy argues that Kotze’s non-apology apology is just as bad as the original piece Kotze is trying unsuccessfully to cover up.

FINAL UPDATE: Michael’s write up made Best of the Web.