There's room for everyone in the blogosphere. There are blogs written by people of such courage and decency that one cannot help but feel humbled; there are blogs of such intelligence that one cannot help but feel depressed impressed, and so on and so forth.
And then there are blogs that put me in mind of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt (1945). Here is a synopsis of the plot: The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, 'young Charlie', decides that things need brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she is named) and invite him to stay. On arrival at the telegraph office she discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle Charlie is being pursued by a couple of detectives who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow Murderer", an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several rich East coast widows.
At one point quite early on in the film, before Uncle Charlie's true nature becomes obvious to all, he allows his guard to drop for a moment and tells his startled niece what he thinks other people are really like. I can't remember his exact words but it went something like this: "Rip off the roofs of houses and what do you see inside? A lot of pigs squealing and snarling in their filth".
There is a lot of that in the blogosphere, too!
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