Soccer Dad

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A few weeks ago I went to a link that I saw in Haveil Havalim and read an item that upset me. While not directed to me specificially it was a general attack on an aspect of my lifestyle. I took it personally and registered my objection in comment to the post.

In return I received a condescending e-mail about how happy the blogger was to engage in a dialogue on the topic. Our exchanges grew increasingly acrimonious from there.

Realizing that this blogger's views were offensive to me I informed him that I would no longer link to him in the context of Haveil Havalim. I don't dictate to other hosts. I leave editing up to the host.

Or that's what I did until last week. I have access to links for preview through BlogCarnival. One of the links was to a post that was vicious slander. Not only that it was laced with obscenity.

As host of Haveil Havalim, I had previously linked to this blogger against my better judgment. His posts are filled with obscenities but he had been recommended by a respectable blogger so I chose to overlook it as host and issued a "profanity alert."

So I took matters into my own hands and I e-mailed this blogger last week and asked him to submit something else as I didn't think his post was appropriate. He answered that it was his best post of the week and he'd be offended if it wasn't included.

Apparently he's written some unkind stuff about me on his blog as if it mattered. (I won't read his blog.) He's even offered to host Haveil Havalim. I have no interest in his doing me any favors. And he too is now on my personal "banned" list. I hope other hosts will ignore his submissions but I won't ask them to. I do think that they need to flag his stuff because it really is vile.

I didn't want to write this post but I felt that an explanation was in order.