Denise Howell, who coined the term “blawg,” has been canned by Reed Smith, her now-former firm. Apparently, she’s barred by contract from divulging the reason, so we’ll likely never know for sure whether this was a dooce or not. Whatever it was, it really sucks. She’s a bright lady and, from what I gather, an excellent attorney, so I have little doubt she’ll end up on her feet, but still, that really, really sucks.

If you’re in the market for a router, this is a very good deal. I’ve had that brand for almost a year now, and it’s worked flawlessly. That’s more than I can say for the Linksys router it replaced.

Denying the Holocaust is an imprisonable offense in Germany, but advocating a new one apparently is not.

In case you’re wondering, the answer is no, apart from a backhanded whine about “juvenile name-calling,” the Grand Master Douche has not personally responded to any of the plethora of deceits I exposed over the weekend. And why should he? He’s got plenty of mini-douches – “Greendouchies,” if you will – champing at the bit to do his bidding for him. Never fear, I’ve read the Greendouchies’ comments so you don’t have to. Here they are, in a nutshell (one nutshell per Greendouchie, that is; there’s no telling what kind of hanky panky might could goin’ on if two or more Greendouchies were trapped alone in a nutshell together without adult supervision). I promise to be at least as fair to the Greendouchies (aren’t they cute?) as Sadly, No! has been to the “Anti-Greenwald Irregulars” they’ve quoted to date. Is that the same thing as being fair generally? Sadly, … well, you get the drift.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s what the Greendouchies have to say in defense of their dear leader:

• Sadly, No!: OK, so maybe we can’t refute anything you said on the merits, but we can bugger up a summary of what you said and call you a poopyhead. So take that, you poopyhead!
• Ryan “I Don’t Even Have a Blog But I Could Totally Get More Traffic Than You If I Did” Douchewald: OK, so maybe Glenn is a lying liar, but so what? He gets way more traffic than you and Dan Riehl do, so how can he possibly be a douche, you douche? [See update.]
• Jeff F*cke: Yeah, and he’s sold a lot of books, too. Anybody who sells a lot of books can’t possibly be a douche, you douche.
• Mark: I’m rubber, you’re glue.
• TGirsch: It wasn’t a pack of lies, it was all … hyperbole. Yeah, that’s what it was. Hyperbole, of course. Just ‘cuz the guy wouldn’t know someone else’s hyperbole if it bit him on the ass, that doesn’t mean he can’t use it himself every now and then.
• Doug: Yeah, that’s it, hyperbole. I’ll bet that’s what Deb Frisch was using, too. Why didn’t I think of that?
• Word Warrior: Heh, heh. He said cockula, heh, heh.
• Tim Lambert: Greenwald, Schmeenwald. We all know this is really about John Lott. Isn’t everything?
• D. Sidhe: No, no, Sillybuns, it’s about big gay marriage! Isn’t everything?

UPDATE: More doucherie:

1. Mona: This fisking doesn’t count ‘cuz you called him a douche, you douche.
2. Poor Man: Douche, douche, douche, douche douch douche douche! Douchety-douche, da-douche.
3. Ilyka: Greenwald’s not a douche, you just hate him because he’s so … civil. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
4. More Ilyka: I didn’t bother reading any of the stuff you documented, so don’t pretend it’s there.

UPDATE: Did I say “Ryan” doesn’t have a blog? Of course he does. What was I thinking?

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Others wiser than I have often said, Never wrestle with a douche, it wastes your time, annoys the douche, and leaves you feeling disturbingly “fresh.” Being less wise than them, by definition, I’m going to go against my better judgment and take on the Biggest Douche in the Blogosphere one last time before I MoveOn. Why, you might ask? One reason, and one reason only: far too many on the left side of the blogosphere actually seem to admire the guy, and quote him as though he were a credible source. His widely quoted attack on right wing bloggers for attacking that psycho Deb Frisch is as good a post as any to establish that he is not.

I should warn you upfront that this post is going to be an extremely tedious read. If, after reading Patterico’s rebuttal you are already convinced that Glenn is a douche, then it may not be worth your while reading this post to examine just how many different angles of douchitude he has exhibited in the post. If, on the other hand, you’re like Greenwald’s fawn, Q&O commenter Mona, who insists that apart from one itsy bitsy boo-boo about Patterico, Greenwald’s crap is ice cream, then it behooves you to read it. Mona writes:

My view is that Greenwald’s post is correct, but contains one example that is not. And that is my view whether folks here announce him decimated, or folks there crown him Pope.

Did I say “apart from one itsy bitsy boo-boo?” Actually, later in that same thread she attempted to wish even that error away, arguing that a 2 1/2 year old link by a then-obscure blogger makes Greenwald’s identified boner fake but accurate:

But a commenter at Greenwald’s just posted some items from your blog that cause me to question whether I was a tad quick in assuming you’d been wronged. You are familiar with Misha; you welcomed him to your own place, and described his blog as great.

Yeah, and the same frickin’ post also describes yours truly as “a luminary,” so take that for whatever it’s worth. Mona continues:

You did that while referencing — with no criticism and a hearty welcome — Misha’s eliminationist rhetoric about judges stated in your own comments section.

Apparently, subtlety is lost on Mona, who took Patterico’s reference to “the always controversial Emperor Misha I” as … what, exactly? A backhanded compliment? Memo to Mona: when people respond to your brilliant insights by rolling their eyes and saying “O……kay,” that doesn’t really mean they are “okay” with what you just said. It means they are being polite. Patterico the power-blogger probably wouldn’t be that polite nowadays, but as a then-obscure blogger who was barely cutting his teeth, he was a bit of a wimp toward other, already established bloggers like Misha. So what? Even if he hadn’t distanced himself from Misha’s goofy rhetoric at all, WTF has any of that to do with his more recent criticism of Frisch’s psychotic ramblings?

Adding a final dose of irony, Mona topped off her rant with this:

In light of the foregoing, I’m not so sure you are in a good position to be leveling charges of “dishonesty” at Greenwald.

O-kay. Er… I mean … that’s the word, coming from the always controversial Mona.

Of course, if Mona were just one random commenter, pointing out that Greenwald’ post is garbage from top to bottom might not be a worthwhile endeavor. Unfortunately, she’s far from his only sycophant. TGirsch, a normally sensible if left-wing blogger quoted him on this very blog, as a supposed rebuttal to a post of mine that said nothing about Frisch’s politics at all, apart from my use of the category “Liberal Morons” to file it. Even Jon Henke, no moonbat he, offers this pig a healthy dose of lipstick. So all in all, Greenwald gets a hell of a lot more traction than your average douche does, even after his most obvious error – attacking Patterico for not criticizing the likes of Ann Coulter – had been exposed. Thus, it’s worth wading through his entire post just to see how much of his ramblings hold up. Short answer: not much. Longer answer: some right-wingers support the death penalty, at least one right-winger has Misha on his blogroll but failed to condemn his hyperbolic rhetoric within the permissible 10 hour timeframe, and most (but not all) of Greenwald’s links actually point to other web sites.

Proceed at your own risk.
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Patterico calls Glenn Greenwald a douchebag for writing yet another dishonest blog entry about conservatives. I disagree. While the health benefits of douching are in dispute, the same cannot be said of reading Glenn Greenwald’s prattle. That stuff can’t be good for you in any way, shape or form.

UPDATE: Need proof? I gotcher proof here.

I recently joined the Old Dominion Blog Alliance, so I guess that finalizes my move from sea to shining sea. Query whether it is proper for me to remain a member of the Bear Flag League. Do these alliances allow dual citizenship? One side of me says “no,” the other says if I can be an active member of three state bars, and Arnold Schwarzenegger can be a governor of a U.S. state without renouncing his Austrian citizenship, then dammit, I should be able to remain a member of two blogging alliances associated with two different states. But I’ll defer to my fellow Dominionites and Bearflaggers on this issue in case either group has a problem with it.

Speaking of moving, if you move, be sure to readjust the compass on your car if it has one. North is still north, and magnetic north is still magnetic north, but the correction factor between them can vary significantly. I didn’t even think about that issue until about a week ago, while looking for my new vehicle (which I bought yesterday – more on that later). It occurred to me that since my Chevy Tahoe was originally purchased in Southern California, its concept of north, south, east and west may be a bit off. Turns out, it was a little off, but not as off as it had been while in California! Southern California is in Zone 4, while eastern Virginia is in Zone 10, but the damned thing was set for Zone 8, i.e., Detroit. The losers at my auto dealership never bothered to calibrate it for CA in the first place! Lazy *%^#ers. Oh well, I got my “new” car, a 2004 Chevy Blazer that looks exactly like my Tahoe only much smaller and has a lot less miles on it,from a local CarMax (Zone 10), which had been transferred from the CarMax in South Carolina (Zone 9) after being owed for 2 years by a company in Pennyslvania (Zone 9 or 10). Guess which zone this compass was calibrated for.

Via Say Uncle, Syd Barrett has died.