Mike Matthews on the DE Blogosphere:
Anyone who is a blogger, fan, or follower of the DE Blogosphere who HASN’T realized that this all really is just one big pissing contest needs to step back, take a deep breath, and down a few valium.
Oh, I don’t know about that. For that assumes this is just all one big game. It may be to some. But not to me and I am sure not to others. Sure, we like to mock our adversaries, by that I mean conservatives and Republicans, and by extension, their local representatives (i.e. DP and other right leaning blogs). Sure we like to joke and employ sarcasm and hyperbole on occasion. But behind all that is a passion for and an advocacy of certain political beliefs and a vision for Delaware and America. I am sure our competition on the right will say the same thing. So yes, we like to have fun, and yes tempers can flare, and accusations can fly, and sometimes our antics resemble an entertaining Three Stooges episode like Kilroy says, but that doesn’t mean it is a meaningless pissing contest.
Now Mike is a cynical dude. He will tell you that himself. And he is annoyingly independent, with no real ideology liberal or conservative that I can tell. Sure, he has opinions and beliefs, but in the end, I think anyway, his cynicism governs all. So maybe that is why he thinks this is all just a big pissing contest lacking any real purpose.