It is pretty much known that if a school fight breaks out in the comments field, my preference is to let the antagonists get on with it. Sometimes it gets too hot even for my liking and I intervene. Sometimes, someone makes such a contentious point - and I am not especially referring to all those made by Judge Jeffreys wannabes on a certain Franco-Canadian case - that I am tempted to respond. But if it is just, say, the routine fisticuffs of Bill Taylor vs Colin Berry, they are big enough to get on with it. I am not sure if it draws people in or drives them away, but it seems harmless enough from here. Whether or not the recent Anonymous of Links fame is Richard of Orléans, I should point out that I have not specifically banned anyone from my blogroll. Not getting round to adding someone is a different thing altogether. When I do link, it is because I think the blog/site is relevant or interesting, not because I necessarily like or agree with what I find there. In Richard's case, there is obviously severe wind-up at play in much of what he has to say. He clearly prefers France to Britain. The wind-up comes in the attempt to convince us that he looks more fondly on Nazi Germany than on Britain and would cheerfully have faced, at the end of the Second World War, either a Resistance bullet or British gallows. But I am happy to add his blog to my links, just as I have chosen today to add a completely new site, Salut! Sunderland.
Where Salut! Sunderland may
be bound is at this stage anyone's guess.
I just thought it would be helpful to my many football-phobic readers
to be assured that Salut! itself will henceforth adopt a (generally)
football-free disposition.
Conveniently, I will also tend to agree with the views expressed there
by the blogger.
As for alphabetical order, I think that may have to wait. But I am
grateful to whoever started clicking away at the ads after my aside the
other day.
Just as I was allowing myself to think that this must be good for
another dollar-and-a-half on its way, I checked. And the actual figure
was 96 cents. At last they're American ones and not Canadian.
Labels: blogs, Britain, Canada, cents, dollars, football, France, Resistance, Salut, Salut Sunderland, squabbling America
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