Back in the good ol' days (mid-2005), when Catherine blogged a blue-streak for DCist and I simply basked in her local media aura, I was dismissive of her complaints about commenters on that site. "You're too sensitive," I would say. "They're just feeding their own egos."

This was and is true, but now I've completely lost my disinterested moorings. Today I made a really, really stupid mistake, accidentally posting something that said the Washington Times owns the DC Examiner. It was an easy mistake for me to make. Excellent sports section? Check. Red masthead? Check. Unseemly interest in deporting hispanics? Check. All the pieces fit. But somewhere along the line I got my megalomaniacal conservative media moguls confused. It was dumb of me.

To be honest, the commenters today treated me far more fairly than my boneheadedness warranted. But it's all relative — these are people who have expressed a wish for my best friend to get AIDS (that one was totally his fault, though). I wonder if Marc Fisher gets socked in the face by random passersby on the street.