I bet you don’t think this post is about you, do you?

by E.D. Kain on July 10, 2009

Have you ever encountered one of those bloggers who is just the perfect mix of self-denial, insecurity, arrogance, and unoriginality that everything they write seems flat and insincere, contrived, and sort of … regurgitated?  Or take all those qualities and add to the mix a real flare for name-calling and self-aggrandizement, and you get a real shouty, boorish, almost 4th grade “I’m the best look at me” bullying sort of blogger.  Lots of heat, but no light.  I know a few bloggers like that, but I bet they don’t know I’m talking about them.  It’s a kind of reverse-vanity.

E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a tech blog at Forbes. Visit his politics blog here. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant. You can also contact him via email.

{ 14 comments }

1 Nathan P. Origer July 10, 2009 at 11:41 am

Guilty as charged.

2 E.D. Kain July 10, 2009 at 11:42 am

Hahaha. You’re too modest.

3 mike farmer July 10, 2009 at 11:47 am

I know you aren’t talking about me — I’m too humble.

4 E.D. Kain July 10, 2009 at 11:48 am

I’m the most humble person in the world, by far.

5 mike farmer July 10, 2009 at 11:48 am

No, I’m way more humble than you ever thought about being.

6 Mike at The Big Stick July 10, 2009 at 11:51 am

And just when I thought my bruised ego was getting better. Cr*p…more therapy.

7 Tony Sifert July 10, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Dude, Brian Leiter.

8 Michael Drew July 10, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Dude, for real. Even when I agree with him.

9 Dave July 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm

You liberltarian back patting Hamas worshipping nihilist who has the moral clarity of a thimble.

Maybe something like that.

10 Fear and Loathing in Georgetown July 10, 2009 at 4:08 pm

It’s the damn third person isn’t it?

11 Katherine July 10, 2009 at 9:53 pm

RSM, right?

12 Jaybird July 10, 2009 at 10:07 pm

I took this post as a personal rebuke until I saw the words “unoriginality” and “regurgitated”.

There were, however, clouds in my coffee.

13 Mark Thompson July 10, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Nihilist.

14 Buce July 11, 2009 at 8:20 pm

I take this as an invitation to solicit readers, and a link:
underbelly-buce.blogspot.com

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