Chilly posted a link to a blog that is “dedicated the puss that is Bill Rini.” I’m unsure of how to take that. Not because the site is derogatory but because I don’t quite understand which defintion of “puss” the writer is shooting for. Could the author mean a face or a mouth (I hit him in the puss)? Is the author implying that I’m some sort of feline? Perhaps in future posts the author will expand on his thoughts so as to clairfy.
Really though, I was literally laughing out loud when I saw that site. I can’t get this picture out of my mind of some guy reading my blog and becoming visibly angry. I see this scene with the guy steaming saying “Yeah? Ok, well I know how I’m going to get back at this Bill Rini guy. I’m going to go over to Blogger and create a blog and call him names! Yes! See how he likes that!” Then he spends a half hour setting up an account and putting together his first post. Afterward he sits back glowing with a combination of pride and anger, “Screw you, Bill Rini! How do you like that?” That’s just such an amusing image. To know that I angered someone so much that they went to all the trouble to set up a Blogger site so they could make themselves feel better is, well, flattering in a way.
I really don’t get why what I’ve been saying has caused such violent reactions in some people. First there was Dr. Phil who seemed to overuse the word “pussy” and then suddenly disappeared when I noted that I knew from his IP address he was posting from Dublin. Then someone posting as “Bill Rini’s Conscience” starts off his comment with “You disgusting fat fuck.” I noticed that “Bill Rini’s Conscience” was using an ISP in Amsterdam and then over the next few days someone started using my Contact link to send me a bunch of emails that had nothing but gibberish in them. I checked my logs and every one of those came from someone using the same Amsterdam ISP. Additionally, I started keep an eye on my logs and noticed that I was getting a fair bit of traffic to that particular post all from that very same Amsterdam ISP. In addition to that there have been been several anonymous emails with some pretty ugly messages.
I mean, I haven’t seen this much anger in my comment section since I wrote a series of pieces on bonus whoring. Where does anger like that come from? Hey, if I’m wrong about everything I said, well, time will prove me an idiot. To become so upset at an analysis of a bill that you feel compelled to set up websites and/or start sending me spam is really, really an unhealthy place to be at psychologically.
Anyway, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing and if you’re one of those people who find reading things you disagree with makes you unstable, perhaps it’s time you move on.