It was just supposed to be a “throw away” post. Honest.

On Thursday August 4th, I was cruising through Duncan Black’s cesspool of a blog, on the lookout for something I could use to illustrate the usual liberal looniness, when I came across a two day old, one line blurb headed simply “Conservative Blog Taxonomy.” Clicking the link, I was directed to Fables of Reconstruction and a post written 3 days prior on August 1st by some moonbat named Mithras.

It looked like a fun idea for the blog so I banged out a post using 10 liberal sites I read on an occasional or regular basis and added a “reality quotient” for a touch of originality. I didn’t finish it until early Friday morning so I simply hit “publish” and forgot about it.

Imagine my surprise 24 hours later when I woke up on Saturday morning to find the post linked to by Michelle Malkin. Now, who wouldn’t be pleased to get a link from the 4th largest blogger on the planet? That said, I was actually kind of embarrassed because it was one of those times that, instead of being recognized for working your ass off on a crisp, insightful piece that you spent a couple of days sweating over, Michelle was kind enough to link what I pretty much considered a throw away post, something I did for fun more than anything.

Having been through something like this before, I knew pretty much what to expect. In the first 24 hours, conservatives follow the link from a big blog and shower you with praise and link like bats out of hell.

It’s the second 24 hours that make you wish you hadna done it.

Since my post got kind of personal with those lefty bloggers, I really don’t have the right to complain about the personal attacks on me made by the moonbats. The only good thing was their lack of imagination. I grew up with friends whose epithets would make Howard Stern blush so the bric-a-brats hurled my way by the trolls never quite reached a level that affected my appetite.

That said, the debate has now made an interesting turn as some pretty heavy hitters discovered Mr. Mithras’ post and have taken off after him for this piggish comment about Michelle Malkin:

Far-right affirmative action hire who is so bigoted she’d arrest herself for trying to cross a border. Famously published a book praising internment of Japanese-Americans that was (a) incoherent and (b) probably not written by her. If she didn’t have tits, she’d be stuck writing at Townhall.com.

I’m glad I don’t have David Bernstein, Bill Ardolino, Jeff Goldstein,, or Jeralyn Merritt fisking my tail for being a sexist pig. (Note: I received a very civil email from Ms. Merritt pointing out that she was in fact a woman even though I had described her using the term “Mr.” I did that with Pat Curley when he was blogging at Kerryhaters last fall, calling him a woman in a post. Pat sent me an email that was also civil, although a little more abrupt than Ms. Merritt’s bemused note.)

Dean Esmay was also featured in Mr. Mithras screed and was described as a “dry drunk” – a blow low enough that he would have been disqualified in a bar fight for delivering it. Mr. Esmay’s response was more dignified than the moonbat deserved:

I didn’t grow up in a union household. Also I am not a “proud dry drunk,” I am a much-more-often sober, less-self-indulgent drunk, not proud of it at all, and I only talk about it because I want to help other people.

As a “Friend of Bill” myself, I know exactly what he’s talking about.

Suffice it to say, none of this would have come to light if I had left well enough alone – probably. Who’s to say some other conservative blogger wouldn’t have found Mr. Mithras pithy rant? At any rate, even though I’m not sorry for most of what I wrote in that piece (a little too hard on Wonkette’s physical appearance?) I wonder how sorry Mr. Mithras is right now?