I guess it's a step up from "crabby old men"

The Roanoke Times continues showing how much it respects bloggers, even those on its offical blogroll. Consider cub journalist Peter Dybdahl's sidebar for today's article on blogging -- "Ax-grind online" -- taken from the the Roanoke Times' soulmate Atlanta Journal-Constitution (not available online):

"It used to be that if you wanted to get your message out, you got a loudspeaker and a soapbox and put on a special helmet to protect yourself from alien laser beams. Now you start a blog...

Everything I just wrote is ridiculously biased, according to Lars Hagen, roanokeslant.blogspot.com."

No Petey, everything you just wrote is sophomoric, uninformed, and, come to think of it, pretty much suits you for the Roanoke Times.