From the MailBag

Richard,

It has come to my attention that your blog is in violation of the standards of the Blogging Tories community. In particular, your blogpost http://nomoresocialism.blogspot.com/2005/10/outing-liberal.html can easily be labelled as 'trolling', which goes against BloggingTories standards outlined here (#8):http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000331.html

as such, I am removing your blog from the Blogging Tories blogroll.

On a personal note, I was also displeased to see that the death of Rosa Parks become an opportunity for your blog to question the black civil rights movement. I am also upset by your use of the hateful word "fag" in this post:http://nomoresocialism.blogspot.com/2005/09/aw-crap.html

Please also consider that blogs will become more visible during the upcoming election and that the media will use any stick given them to beat upon the Conservative Party. I'm sure that you'd agree that a few of your opinions would surely harm the party if they became even indirectly associated with it.

You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion and as a'c'onservative, I support your rights to free speech. However, as the webmaster of Blogging Tories (a private group), it is also my right(and responsibility) to disassociate myself (and others who have asked) from inflammatory bloggers such as yourself.

As an analogy, even though Robert McLelland started the NDP knockoff"Blogging Dippers"... if I ran that group I wouldn't accept Robert's inflammatory style either. I'm apologize for taking up your time with this generally unpleasant matter, however I believed that you're entitled to a full explanation.

Thanks,
Stephen Taylor
BloggingTories.ca

Well, as I've said before: If I was looking for more friends, I'd get another dog. This letter does deserve an appropriate response however. I'll have to chew on it for a wee bit...

Note to the US readers: Folks like this are the reason my country is so effed-up.