Originally written Friday, 9/25/2009
I’m sitting in the airport in
I can’t live-blog this, the airport wi-fi setup process keeps crashing. Its rather frustrating, but I suppose there are worse things in life than not being able to get on the internet for a couple of hours. Yes, actually lots and lots of worse things. Like having somebody submit a picture of you to People of Walmart. That would be MUCH worse.
I’ve been fascinated in an “Omigod I just can’t look away” fashion by the trainwreck going on between Chicken Liver (aka Michelle McBee) and a couple of the mommybloggers, most notably Dooce, Pioneer Woman and Lucky Thirteen. Its grown to such epic proportions that there are now a couple of blogs actually devoted to reporting latest updates in the battle.
I’m honestly mystified by the lengths some people will go to when they dislike someone. So you don’t like Heather’s blog or you disagree with something she did. What does a healthy person do? Not a damn thing. Or you shake your head and think Sandi must be crazy to have that many kids, or think Ree thinks she’s better than everyone else (which, for the record, are NOT my opinions). If you’re normal? You just don’t read that blog anymore. It doesn’t trouble you, because in healthy, sane-world, you aren’t caught up in obsessing over what someone else should do with their spare time. You don’t care whether they make money from their blog or not, you don’t care if they’re a perfect parent or not, whatever perception you have of hypocrisy doesn’t bother you because you understand implicitly that what they do or say online isn’t about you. It isn’t. Really. Until it you make them make it about you, and then I guess you got what you wanted? Or not? Its really hard to say, and I’m left scratching my head in sincere puzzlement. Anyway, if you like internet trainwrecks, this one is, if not entertaining, at least a halfway decent time-waster if you’ve got time on your hands sitting in a strange airport and YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION actually works. Unlike me.
