The Red Ensign Standard - in a waffle cone thank you very much

Babble on.

Dust My Broom has done a bang-up job compiling the latest edition of the Red Ensign Standard. Felicitations, good sir.

Recently the Red Ensign Brigade has taken a somewhat backhanded shot from a blogger I read and admire: Theresa at Heart of Canada. Unfortunately - on this one particular issue - Theresa seems to have come a bit unhinged, first posting a variety of screeds on the issue of Flea's content and comments editing, and subsequently surprising the hell out of me by criticizing all those of us who fly the Ensign:

Of course, don't forget those stunning pics on his blog of Avril Lavigne, reportedly intoxicated at the time, in a Hooters outfit. Very professorial -- he just had to post that. Then, again, he makes his opinion clear: "This is not a forum and I am not interested in debating my views." Yes, sounds like much of academia to me, especially with regard to women.

I hope he doesn't teach like that. What does this say about the Red Ensign? Surely they must condone this fleabag stuff.

Really? All of us flying the Red Ensign think with a single brain and hold identical positions on all things bloggish under heaven? I think with the passage of time, and the cooling of emotion on this issue, that Theresa will acknowledge those words were not her finest.

I agree with some of of my fellow Brigade members on some issues, and with others on other points of interest. But I suspect that if we talked among ourselves for long enough, we Red Ensign types would eventually find points of disagreement on just about every topic imaginable within our collection of kindred souls. Just as Theresa wouldn't always agree with Jim Elve, or Shannon Davis, even though she associates herself with them through E-Group and the W League of Blogs respectively.

Oh, and for the record, I like Flea's free ice cream. Not always the chocolate sprinkles or the pistachio nuts, mind you, but the ice cream itself. And just because I don't like every topping doesn't mean I won't return for the ice cream when the craving hits. Like daily.

Babble off.

Update: The Monger weighs in. I could have said all that...if I was a better writer. Damm ejukatd sawbones maykin' mee luk bad!
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and Jaeger, and The OC, and Mother of The Last Amazon.
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and the Raging Kraut, and...wow, what a dissection...Chris Taylor. Yeah, what he said.