I was reading Atrios and Kos yesterday, and apparently they’re both in a bit of a snit because some folks have questioned Kos’ placement of a Chevron ad on his site. This has come up before – last time it was over having an ad from a fake grassroots organization opposed to Net Neutrality. Personally, I use FireFox with AdBlock, so I don’t even see the ads they run, but it’s always fun to see them get bummed because they don’t like it when people complain to them about it. They certainly have a right to grub money from anybody that will give it to them, and they can post ads for porn, Ovaltine, or even Wendy freakin’ Friesen for all I care. But, geez, do you have to whine about it when people disagree with you?

Here, we subscribe to the BuzzFlash principle, in that there are no ads. Of course, that may have a lot to do with the fact that nobody actually wants to advertise here, but I’d prefer to think that it’s because we’re ideologically pure. I issue a challenge to some wealthy wingnut out there to offer me a few million bucks to post a banner ad. Just watch how fast I turn you down.

One or the other of them – I think it was Atrios – got himself all buggered up over getting too much crap e-mail a while back, too. I guess everybody under the sun adds him to their conspiracy theory e-mail lists and tells him – dammit – he’s not writing about what they want him to write about. While I can sympathize with that, well, sorry, but that’s the price for being a blogstar. Those regular gigs on the Sam Seder show don’t come for free, you know.

Anyhow, have a happy hump day.