I don't think Rick Moran likes me very much

So, after months of attending to the process of living life instead of cowering under my desk afraid that there might be brown people lurking behind every fucking corner waiting to be mean to me, a la the average right wing blogger, i come out of my cave like some perverse and perverted fusion of Punxsatawney Phil and Grendel and see that the post-election weather means that the long winter of Republican control of the House and the Senate is nearly at its end and it is once again safe for at least quasi-rational creatures to once again roam freely about the land.

My first action was to pay a visit to my favorite gang of snarky bastiches over at Sadly, No! and see that some guy at the (approriately named) Right-wing Nuthouse was taking them and some other fine bloggers to task for not being sufficiently meek and subdued to keep him from catching a frightful case of the vapors

As i would have fully exptected of them the Sadly, No! crew responded appropriately to Little Ricky's display of dismay, and upon reading some of the comments in the exchange, i couldn't help but volunteer a few remarks of my own

says me:

27. The Crapture Said:
7:35 pm

You’ll have to forgive me if i’m not sympathetic to how chagrined you seem to be over the election outcome and the displays of unrestrained schadenfreude from some bloggers and commenters that have come as a result, but after listening to the unfiltered bleatings of people who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values, i’m just not prepared to regard most of the authority cultists passing themselves off as conservatives with a straight face

and Herr Moron replies:

29. Rick Moran Said:
7:56 pm

Mr. Shit er…Crap:

“after listening to the unfiltered bleatings of people who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values,

Hysterical. Wildly exaggerated. So over the top as to be on another planet.

If that’s really what you think you’re sick. If you’re just trying to sound clever, you’re not. If you’re trying to make a point, just what the hell is it?

Well, if you weren't so busy pissing in your pants in fear of brown people, gay people, Muslims and anything else that makes your palms turn slimy orange with that peculiar mix of Cheeto-dust and fear-sweat, you would see that Wild, hysterical, over the top exaggeration is EXACTLY my point.

I'm dying to see what Little Ricky has to say about my assessment of the latest Republican calls for "Bipartisanship"

now that ought to be comedy gold.

If this turns out to be any sort of full fledged pissing match, i'll feel like i've arrived as a blogger. But if not, c'est la vie