You are becoming Sully's bitch. Let's be honest.

How do you figure that?

You keep up this trend and you'll be like Reynolds -- eviscerating the poor guy...but in a gentile sort of way. I loved AS's quote of "I'm struck by how many of you have told me that your real objection is not with the issue of marriage equality itself, but by the means of achieving it. Court-imposed mandates rub people the wrong way, even those who support including gay couples within the family structure. Extra-legal tactics like Gavin Newsom's particularly rankle. I wasn't sanguine about this at the time but minimized it because I was so swept up in the emotion of seeing gay couples finally getting the respect they deserve. I should have been stricter in opposing Newsom's grandstanding."

That was my main complaint of him so it's nice to see some validation. But given the snitty emails I got back from him, I think I feel comfortable in saying he had his chance.

Because you let that guy get under your skin too much (no pun intended!), and then give him unnecessary linkage on your blog.

He's a preening, pseudointellectual narcissist with delusions of grandeur and a misguided sense of his own relevancy and/or importance (remember how we dogged out his stance that his blog was powerful enough to keep the office of the Presidency in line?). All the extra attention (and maybe even some traffic)does is feed his incessant and unending appetite for attention.

Really, he's the John Zogby of bloggers. He had his time in the sun and then revealed his true colors when the chips were down. To say he has jumped the shark is too kind, and an unnecessary insult to the Ted McGinley's of the world.

So by giving him that which he seeks, you are essentially acting like his bitch.

And because I just felt like throwing something deragatory out there so I could follow it with "let's be honest". It's just my innate Johnny Coldcuts spirit coming to the fore.

Well, I agree with all that, obviously.

The trouble is, I got that Microsoft link from him, and so what am I gonna do? I have to link him, since I got it from him. Otherwise it's a violation of the solemn Blogger's Oath I took a year ago.

There was a solemn Blogger's Oath? Huh, I never took it.

Hold out for Halo 2, a spiffy new Xbox 2, and some games to be named later.

Dead or Alive 4. Unless that only comes out on Playstation 3, in which case I'm selling out to Sony.

Well, Ace, I was going to hit that tip jar pretty hard ... but now, not so much ...

Courage,

Bill G.

Ace, your demands should include a totebag. Always go for the totebag.

Totebag? Ummm, what, to give to my Grandma?

When I saw John Fund a couple of weeks ago he had a totebag.

It wasn't a good look, I can tell you that.

No, I'll hold out for the big ticket items. Like a free subscription to PC Gamer magazine.

Isn't there already sort of an offer like this? Only through Google? And it's called 'Blogger'??

Yeah, this one's gonna work out better than that. I mean, that MSN is really taking off!