{ 2007 12 22 }

Open Season on Saskboy - open thread

Some bloggers haven’t had enough fun yet picking apart and over-analyzing my efforts to co-run an Canadian blogosphere awards site (for the entire Canadian blogosphere) with several other bloggers of different backgrounds. So here’s a post to go wild, and vent a little at me who is at least partially responsible for ruining Christmas, or whatever next I’ll be accused of doing.

Caution, if you try to be nice to me here, I’ll assume you’re being sarcastic. :-)

Since I closed the comments on the latest announcement, some bloggers have been buzzing about how the CBA Operator’s solution to the threats of boycotts and bad feelings, has been less than completely satisfying, or a complete screw up like the last attempt to resolve matters through compromise.

Some have gone to such a level of not caring what happens, that they write numerous lengthy blog posts on the subject. I’ve asked Canadian Cynic, impolitely, to mind his own bee’s wax. Dave at TGB had a more thoughtful post on the subject of standing aside. But he too argues for an exclusion of some bloggers because ‘they just don’t mix’ well enough. Co-blogger Dana, unfortunately, would be happier boycotting any part of the Internet I’ve touched, lest he (Corrected, sorry Dana, I didn’t know it was a gender neutral name, I’ve only met female Danas before.) get Saskatchewan boy cooties.

There is, perhaps, some belief that once we all get down in the dirt, we’ll drop our coloured ties and just get along in a good old Canadian polite competition. That won’t happen.

The ideological differences are too great and because of that, awards of this type might work best if both sides stayed in their own camp.

I think there’s something to be said for sitting down together, even if you don’t like the people on the other side of the table very much. Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, but so too does ignorance. We like to think of ourselves as experts on other people and their intentions, but after being an expert for so long, does one become more ignorant of other fields?

Anyway, now I’m a lightening rod for discontent on the Canadian political interwebs. Good thing my online-skin is thicker than it is in the real world because online I’m apparently an… “outright liar”, “hapless cluster monkey”, “assmonkey”, “monkey” (have these people seen me without my shirt on by chance?), “Biggest Asshat in Canada”, “Disingenuous ass hat”, “useful idiot”, “fucking predictable”, “irredeemable”, “obtuse” (not the first time someone’s claimed that; they may have a point ;-), “insecure”, “impervious”, “boy from Saskatchewan”, and “sexy”.

Not Real Pee

OK, I made that last one up to make me feel a bit better ;-)

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UPDATE: I see CC offered a sort-of apology here after I’d written this, but I’d already posted it before I went to bed last night, so didn’t see it before the world read this.

Posted by Saskboy on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007, at 8:04 am, and filed under Saskatchewan, computer, humour, media, news, politics.

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