Angry in the Great White North
Goodbye to the Blogging Dippers [Update]
Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 11:47 PM

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Update: It's been a week, and the Blogging Dippers are back on the blogrolls.

I don't like being the subject of the story:

Oops! It looks like that guy who was last seen cavorting with crooks had best get those enemy blogrolls off his blog before the Konservative Kops see it. So much for that “strict policy”. Once again, a Blogging Whorie is caught lying.

I'm "that guy". The crooks? I guess he means Conrad Black -- but I don't know why "crooks" is plural. I won't bother getting into the childishness of calling Conrad Black a crook before he has been found guilty.

Whatever.

What are the "kops" looking for? Whether or not I have other blogrolls on my blog. Apparently this blogger received an email that said in part:

we have a strict policy on multiple Canadian partisan blogrolls. If you'd like to be included on the Blogging Tories blogroll, we don't accept blogs that also have the green bloggers / progressive bloggers / blogging dipper blogrolls on their blogs

That's the first time I've ever heard of this policy. No one from the Blogging Tories has ever made mention of my blogrolls, and I take pride in maintaining links to as many Canadian political blogs as possible. I've secure enough in my convictions that I don't mind the shopper comparing my ideas with the ideas of others. I know they'll see the strengths of my arguments, moreso after having checked out the opposition and their penchant for name-calling ("Blogging Whories"??).

I don't know that the email is real. But I do know that I'm not about to change my blogrolls without good reason. The Blogging Tories have never indicated to me any reason to change, good or bad.

But the Blogging Dippers have provided me with a reason in the person of Robert McLelland. Throwing around the label "crooks" indiscriminately, suggesting I cavort with crooks because I was at a party at the same time -- I've had enough that. The Blogging Dippers are off my site until Friday. I doubt I drive much traffic to them, but then having them on my blogrolls was a symbolic gesture anyway, and so is tossing them off.

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