"We have met the enemy and it is us."

Oh, my. Is there no civility on the island called blog?

It is this latter - our new enemies - that interests me most. I don't mean al-Qaida or Osama bin Laden, but the less visible, insidious enemies of decency, humanity and civility - the angry offspring of narcissism's quickie marriage to instant gratification.

There's something frankly creepy about the explosion we now call the Blogosphere - the big-bang "electroniverse" where recently wired squatters set up new camps each day. As I write, the number of "blogs" (Web logs) and "bloggers"(those who blog) is estimated in the tens of millions worldwide

"Frankly creepy," enemy of all that is good, decent, human, and civil. Kathleen Parker knows me so well. As for her prose: all you could expect from the "director of Written Expression at the Buckley School of Public Speaking and Persuasion in Camden, South Carolina."

And if only she were writing of Clown Hall when she bangs out,

We can't silence them, but for civilization's sake - and the integrity of information by which we all live or die - we can and should ignore them.