Miss me?

I know I did.

Woulda left you alone, but one of my favorite blogs is under a DDOS attack right now, and it's pissing me off so much that I just had to get toasty. And you know what happens when daddy gets toasty. That's write. He starts righting.

In other news, Khalid is angry, and according to CNN, that aught to scare me. I'm curious as to why, precisely, I'm supposed to be scared, and CNN is now just catching on. Given my current inclinations, perhaps it's CNN which should be scared.

Wait a moment! I've just engaged in a double standard! Kindly drag me out in front of the obvious bus and have me shot for consumption of common sense.

Yes, I bring you drunken variants on freedom today. Why? My suspicion is that I'm not actually drunk enough. I hope you all will forgive me. Two more shots of vodka and another two minutes of rambling should rectify the situation in to an appropriate level of incoherence though. Fear not dear reader!

Know what I've discovered? The world is not very good at spelling. So let me go ahead and spell a few things out for you. When's the last time you've heard of a socialist/communist/lefty/liberal website getting knocked down from a distributed denial of service attack? Really. Seriously. When's the last time Kos, or, um, Kos, or, yeah, you know, all those liberal sites out there I don't read. Really. When's the last time one of them got taken down from a malicious attack?

'Cuz I can name a dozen high profile right wing/ libertarian / conservative sites which have been knocked down in such fashion. You've got your LGF, you've got your Instapundit, you've got your Jawa Report, you've got your PW, you've got your Ace, you've got your Malkin, you've got your... if you're unfamiliar with these acronyms, well, it doesn't really matter. You get the point, and you can all find the links ultimately buried under the improbably dense blogroll to your right. Or Google. Always a good place to start, that whacky, happy-go-lucky Google. I mean, so long as you're not Chinese and all.

Thought: while on a large scale basis the pen might well be mightier than the sword (digression: no really, just look at the NYT and the damage it's able to do to the Bush administration. Suspend for a moment your opinions on said administration one way or the other. Just look at the damage. Carnage I tell ya. Blood dripping gore covered heaps of corpses violated, mutilated, and desecrated. And that's just the NYT. Lump in the BBC, WaPo, LAT, [insert more acronyms until people get the point], and you're left with nothing but a steaming pile of entrails.

ENTRAILS I TELL YOU!

But what I'm here to tell you right now is that the sword is incredibly mightier than the pen on a case-by-case basis.

Trust me on this one. Lest I be forced to ventilate ya.

And in conclusion... said conclusion going exceptionally well with my lack of a point... I present to you a couple random quotes coughed up for me by the generosity of... Google!

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- TS Eliot

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin

That last one's my favorite. Bitches.