When you write a blog for a mass media outlet there is no shortage of reactionary crazies. Katie of KnoxvilleTalks.com wrote this:

Bob Corker releases statement on Bhutto: Sen. Corker met with Benazir Bhutto less than a month ago at her home in Pakistan and today he released a statement.

Harmless and free of provocation, right? Well, here’s the comment left on that post:

This site is a joke…You can’t even bring yourself to accurately report what others are saying without injecting your own commie views onto everything. All of journalism is a joke and its biggest mistress, the perpetually confused and misinformed Katie, is nothing but a media whore. Nice work.

Katie Allison Granju is journalism’s biggest mistress? Someone better tell Ann Coulter. I love the use of “media whore” in this instance. How very clever and original!

Let me just say this: Chin up, Katie. No matter how innocuous your work, some mouth-breather with an out-of-control “liberal media” complex will jump in to insult. There will be no facts or reasoning - for instance, why is Katie always confused and misinformed as this commenter accuses? - just half formed arguments about what a mind-washed, morally bankrupt linkslut you are. Don’t let the retards get you down, hon.

UPDATE: This makes a hell of a lot of sense, and it is something I should think long and hard about. I know this is true; why do I forget it so easily?

Provocateur Penelope Trunk fired from her career advice column at Yahoo.

Hundreds line up for absinthe in Alameda; no limit to how much they could buy.

New magazine blog from Derek Powazek: The Magazineer

“Dear Jesus, white girls is bitches who will not let me love them. O Jesus, King of Kings, please make the bitches appreciate my style. Amen.”

Go, Fred, go!: “[I]t’s a remarkable indicator of just how topsy-turvy the GOP race has been that the man once viewed as the party’s savior cannot even afford to buy TV time in the final days before Iowa.”

The Beast’s 50 Most Loathsome People is always a good read:

If Fox News isn’t quite asinine enough for you, just click on over to Headline News, where the CNN brand is eagerly defiling its vestigial credibility by giving an hour a day to the dumbest dumbfuck in dumbfuckistan, Glenn Beck. A white-knuckle, dry drunk, closet case man-child with apparent xenophobia issues and a penchant for end-times theology, Mormon convert Beck is palpably horny for the apocalypse, passive-aggressively accusing even the world’s most benign Muslims of plotting America’s destruction and likening withdrawal from Iraq to slavery.