The Love Song of Gord Sellar: "Cheap, Cheap, Cheap!"

Yeah. I'm an asshole. But you are far something worse: a blackmailing, self-righteous, vindictive, little creep:

See that big building? I wonder whether that’s my troll’s workplace. I wonder if a slightly better check on the IP would reveal the name of the organization that pays for it? Not that I’d complain to his boss about his pissing on my website from a work computer, but… well… maybe I would.

And a bully. Your technorati ranking is about nine times higher then mine, and you can amplify your voice through other venues. Such a class act, taking on people smaller than you! Interested reader(s) (probably not many, as Grod tends to be a long winded bore) can scroll down the post for further threats of blackmail, and enjoy his rather inventive potty mouth.

Why did I take such offense at this post? I didn't, well not quite at first, as I thought I could chalk it up to the fact that for such a sensitive guy, you can be a little tone deaf. We had a discussion about it once - I thought you came across as arrogant and condescending at times, while you thought you were engaging in "harsh rhetoric".

And while I don't know you personally, that explanation just didn't seem to fit. At some point during our discussions on your blog (I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, it took awhile) it hit me: you aren't progressive or traditional. You are just cheap.

Really cheap:

As for Lime, she has in her posession some books and a tumbler from Starbucks that she’d been wanting for a while, but the real present I gave her, besides those things, was a list of stuff she either wants or needs but won’t buy for herself. Her digital camera is dying, and it’s been time for a new one for ages, but she won’t get one. Some clothes that aren’t for work. Stuff like that.

Hey, you want to rationalize being a cheapskate under the guise of a progressive cloak? Be my guest. Just leave me (and my wife) out of it. I can take my lumps. The post and the Cahoots article I could deal with, but did you have to tie them together like that? Give it a rest - I'd be perfectly happy to let things go. Just don't ever mention me in your blog, an article, a story, a novel, etc again.

Update: I'd humbly submit that you, Grod Sellar, win the prize for being passive aggressive:

Let this be a lesson, when you start wondering how people are doing while you’re logged onto Facebook: the guy who turned out to be a backstabber in middle school?

If you felt that way when you made contact with me, you had no business getting in touch with me from the start. You've been acting in bad faith from the get go.