Spat

In terms of getting play over trivial issues in the local media, it's been a red-letter week for the Northern Alliance.

First, Powerline gets a free plug in the Strib. Then, the Plain Layne flap gets me writeups in the PiPress and the City Pages.

Now, the Fraters make an anonymous appearance in a Laura Billings column:

...especially those lonely guys who write withering and anonymous social commentary in their underpants.

How did she know? Those PiPress people are everywhere!

Saint Paul responds:

According to reports, [Fraters' correspondent Man from Silver Mountain] does write exclusively in his skivvies, but so what? I think anyone who has the option to do that and chooses not to is the real weirdo.

Fair enough.

The real question, of course - how did dead-tree columnists originally hatch the idea that bloggers are "lonely guys in their underwear?"

Envy, perhaps?

At any rate - read the whole thing.

Posted by Mitch at July 1, 2004 01:55 PM