Thursday, April 28, 2005
(9:38 PM) | Anonymous:
I am Adam Kotsko, please direct complaints to Anthony Paul Smith.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not always the nicest guy. I'm quick to anger, rather polemical at times, not half as clever as I think I am and when I am it is too clever by half. That being said I'm beginning to think that the attacks directed towards me during my tenure at The Weblog are not so much about my short-comings but about those aspects of Adam's personality and ideas that people find less than appealing. I'm thinking of partly of Ralph Luker who has singled me out as a neo-Berubian, even comparing my devotion to Berube as apostle-like. I can only take this to mean that he believes I will stick with Berube until he's crucified, lay low until the heat is off, and then cash in on the major film deals to follow (Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Berube is gonna be huge!). Even though Berube's blog remains one of the few I read when I go through those standard "sick of blogs" moments, I would hardly classify that appreciation as devotion. I actually do disagree with him on a lot of politics and think he is more of a Liberal than the Leftists I am more interested in, but I can't deny his intelligence. I think Adam feels the same way and he also shares me dislike for KC Johnson's blog writing (again, nothing to say about Johnson or Berube's academic prowess as I've read neither outside the internet). But when it comes down to it, Adam doesn't get spanked, I do. When Adam is radical they seem to get upset with me for being radical.This is just one example out of many. I guess I can't complain, I do get to post here for free and I know just as well as everyone else that Adam's writings are the main attraction. Still, I can't help but wonder if I don't deserve some special compensation for being the whipping boy. Maybe like a chocolate bar now and then. Or a beer, actually I'd prefer the beer.
