I'd be remiss if I failed to write this little thank you note. Stepford wife Angie Villa, aka Mrs. Dottie, today published a thoughtful post about the BNN ratings on my other blog, Lehigh Valley Ramblings. As her husband Bill will proudly tell you, they are "remarkable people."True, Angie has called me an "evil monster" who spends most of my time "slamming women like Sam Bennett" A sexist, too. So why thank her?
I'm remarkable, too!
Is Angie really a Stepford wife? Her post today is pretty much identical to the comment that Villa himself posted here at 8:07 AM on Sunday. It's virtually the same as a comment posted by Villa at LVPoliblog. So I think he inserted a chip somewhere under that hat she likes to wear.
Don't think so?
How about this? Angie, in an email dated May 23, told me she finds the term "pussy" repulsive. But when her husband repeatedly called David Najarian a "pussy", it suddenly became permissible to use that degrading word.
Alrighty then. Remarkable, isn't she?
In Angie's (that's Mrs Dottie's real name) very first post, written before that implant was inserted, she makes this bold statement: "I'd like to set the stage for a blog where good manners are encouraged and opposing points of view are welcome. You don't have to be on "my team" to be part of the discussion."
Actually, you do.
In an email to bloggers Michael Donovan, Michael Molovinsky and AJ Cordi dated August 10, Villa ominously warns, "You're either with me or against me. Pick a side and be done with it."
Sounds like George Bush, the mother of all neocons.
Sadly for "Mrs. Dottie," a happy blog that once really did encourage diversity and good manners has devolved into a moderated blog that instead promotes a boycott of Ramblings.
So much for all that "healthy dissent" Angie and her husband falsely encourage. The only dissent they permit is when it comes from them. She's clearly enabling her husband's obvious mental illness.
First thing Sunday morning, they could not wait to get out of bed to check the weekly ratings. Seeing that I had dropped for #2 to #4, they were delighted. They must have been really pissed when I jumped from #4 to #2 a few weeks before that.
I hope they keep it up. People are never more interested in something than when someone tells them they can't have it. I'm sure it will encourage artsy-fartsy types to read my blog. Maybe I'll write about a museum or something.
I'll thank Angie more properly on my other blog, too.
Remarkable people.
