IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?!

Bejebus, nothing kills a blogger's ego quite like this.

But Boylan is not always so high-minded. Sometimes he'll write to a blog simply to make himself heard. In April, Boylan described an anti-American march in Baghdad that was organized by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as "progress," as it proved that Iraqis now enjoyed "the right to assemble." A fellow who calls himself "skank" and blogs at skank.tanglebones.com criticized Boylan's characterization: "Makes you want to scream, doesn't it?" skank wrote. Boylan popped into the comments thread to defend himself: "I guess you would rather have them shooting at us [as opposed to] marching saying that they want us to leave so that they can be united, which is what they were chanting. The sooner they unite and figure this out, the better for everyone."

"Skank?" At "skank.tanglebones.com?"

Col. Steven Boylan has the time and energy to scour the hateamerica, islamolovin' blogosphere and enters the friggin' comments thread at something called skank.tanglebones.com?

Hey, Colonel, what the fuck am I, chopped liver? The Vegacura challenges you to comment...either the real you or whoever is sneaking into the Green Zone, logging on to your laptop, and impersonating you, I don't really care. Just need the traffic.