I hide out in the open people. I was right there Saturday hamming it up in Greenville. There was about 75 other people from various political circles and social circles right along side of me. Slugging Twin Lakes beer after beer. Perhaps you didn’t know that I also go to the Drinking Liberally events. You might have seen me? I’m the guy that chicks walk by and say, “Are you Donviti?” Yes, yes I am. No, no you can’t touch it. It’s my wifes. (but you can look) It’s not just me either. We here at DL put ourselves out there in public on a regular basis. Who I am is hardly a secret to people that take the time to know me. People have had plenty of chances and will continue to have plenty of chances. I’m not hiding that well.
One of the reasons I started as the blogger “Donviti” was because it was my yahoo email address that I gave myself all the way back in 1994 right around the time when Yahoo started. Donvito was already taken. I grabbed it and have had it ever since. I never grabbed the name and posted with it for much other reason than to hide my name from the people that I work for or future employers. I liked the name. I’m half Italian and have a name that is pretty much a dead give away for being Donviti. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to learn my real name, then say I am with Delaware liberal.
I have been outspoken my entire life. I got my ass beat for it. I went to detention and JUG for it. I got into fights for it. Hell, I was almost courtmartialed for it. I almost lost my rank because of it and luckily because I was mostly right at the time I got away with it. I will continue to be outspoken regardless if my “real name” is out there. I have no doubt that what I do rubs people the wrong way but, I don’t make a living off of doing what I do. And I do it because I can. Because I’m good at what I do and I like to write. I love this soapbox. You see, so many politicians don’t get it. Business leaders don’t get it. And you know who gets it in the end? Me, my children and the rest of my extended family aka America.
So yes, I don’t like them. They are dishonest. They are crooked. They are hurtful, mean, sinful humans that don’t deserve to be stroked when they die. That don’t deserve to be given some modicum of respect when what they do, day in and day out is fuck over my fellow citizens. So, I say what I say with a piss and vinegar that would offend a nun and hopefully even my fellow sailors.
But, I’m hardly hiding. And “outing” me isn’t going to silence me. It is hardly eye for eye. It hardly does anything to solve the problem that I apparently am to you. You see, the governor knows who we are, Pretty much all the politicians in Delaware know who we are. People that want to know who we are, are more than welcome to march their sorry asses to anyone of the events we talk about hosting or being at.
Hell, I have even solicited for folks to COME TO MY OWN FUCKING HOME FOR WHISKEY TASTINGS. So, contrary to what a few pussies think I am right here in the open. I am typing this chuckling at the thought of some little twerp pounding away at a wordpress site all the while shouting at the monitor in that meddling, menacing, cartoon voice like that of an evil, mad, dopey scientist. “Hheeehehehehehehe, I will smite him” (in a high pitched weaselly, Lindsey Graham voice) “I’m gonna out dem mean people at Delawareliberal and show them!!!”
I’m not sure the purpose it even serves. It reeks of powerlessness for one. Desperation for another. It lacks in creativity. But seriously? What are you hoping for? Bodily harm? Someone get’s injured? Because one of the writers on this blog essentially got a death threat. If that is what you are going for then you are truly a powerless little fuck that needs to seriously take a step away from the computer and read a book. Not a comic book either. A real book on something like “How to not take shit personally and grow up” Something like that.
So for the record, I’m not hiding from people that want to find me. I’m barely hiding from people that might be trying to find a reason to fire me. The only people I’m hiding from are potential future employers and currently I like where I’m at a heck of a lot. I use donviti because I like it and I don’t use my real name because I don’t. Because I don’t have to. Because there is a blog code however tacitly implied that sort of allows me to write with the name Donviti. But boohooo on me. It really is a weird thing how it is only people on this blog that seem to need to be outed and not other blogs on the other side of the aisle. But whatever, those people have come to our defense once before and I’m sure he/she too will be outed eventually…
So man to man, because the pussy doing what they are doing is no doubt a guy, I could give to rats ass if you go to such lengths to out me. I can’t speak for my co writers. I think though that I must be doing something right if I can get under someones skin so much to the point they feel they are hurting me equally as much as I am hurting one of their friends, peers, idol’s or god’s. It has to be someone I have attacked personally right? Why else would some loser go to the lengths they are going to teach me such a mighty lesson? I’ve been taught lessons my entire life by people and usually in the end I am the one to get off the ground first. So be it. What kind of a sorry, pathetic, weak individual thinks that outing someone that said meany things about a friend of their’s is noble? I fight my own battles though. I don’t hide behind 300lb lap dogs? LOL, I kill me.
Karma is my friend she has taught me a lot in this life and my guess is that she will teach some one else a thing or two as well. I’m donviti, and I’m right here any time any where. I will be at a wine tasting this Saturday at Veritas Wine Shop. Come join me for a drink if you have any balls.