The trouble with trolls

You blog long enough and eventually you get trolls. My strategy has generally been to ignore them but over at the Swashzone, they treat dealing with the vile little creatures as a sport. Well except for (O)ct(O)pus, who usually employs my methodology, but decided to engage one that is well known here.

What tempted me to weaken my resolve and engage this troll? Seven years of botched wars with thousands dead and tens of thousands injured or maimed, our foreign policy in shambles, millions of jobs outsourced, ruinous trade deficits, defective imports flooding our markets, another energy shock due to years of neglect, a mismanaged economy, and a sovereign debt of staggering proportions ... everything the Bush/Cheney administration touched that has turned to failure. It was a moment of misplaced anger.

And what task has our ubiquitous troll, DD, assigned for himself? He is a self-appointed foot soldier for talking points in the ragtag infantry of a failed campaign speaking for a political party bereft of ideas and morality.

This particular troll stalked me for few months and vowed to discredit me across the entirety of the intertubes. He didn't get far with that, being that oddly, I seem to be well loved in Blogtopia and nobody was interested in his smears. I never tried to get revenge myself. Not that it wouldn't have been an easy task; it just never seemed to be worth the effort. Still I can't deny in taking a certain delight in seeing him suffer a taste of his own medicine.

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