…in the wake of this weekend’s Protein Wisdom-Deborah Frisch blog-swarm du jour:

1. Life is short, and the blog-universe is huge.

2. If you are not interested in what you are reading on a particular blog, move on.

3. If you get off on arguing in the comments… well, that’s your hobby. Mine is gardening. No one gets paid for a hobby.

4. Being the object of a blogswarm is about as much fun as being repeatedly stung by a swarm of African killer-bees.

5. There is a lot to be said for veiling certain aspects of your personal life in your blog. Like your children, your home address, and where you work.

6. Implied threats and sexual aspersions about someone’s immediate family are beyond the pale. So are DOS attacks on their site.

7. This is one for the theory that people who study psychology have a shaky grip on their own sanity.

8. What the &$%# do we have to *%^$ing do to get some &$%ing civility between people who disagree strenuously?

9. Frankly, I am glad that the biggest problem I have with comments here are the torrents of automated spam. Getting the sort of comments that some other bloggers get would make me pretty sour about the whole open comments concept.