Mail box giving birth to triplets.

The other day I noted that manly man Ace O Spades was girding his pasty  loins preparing to go virtual medieval on David Kernell’s ass, since Kernell used his superhuman hacking skillz to figure out that the Wasilla Nitwit’s password to her Yahoo account. That event, of course, caused Wall Street  to collapse which is why you spent the morning stocking up on canned goods, ammo, and softcore porn.

Then you watched Oprah.

Making fun o’ Ace then  set off Patterico.

Ostensibly it’s all about the privacy (which is why Patterico likes using my real double-super secret name):

That’s like reacting to your neighbor’s home burglary by ridiculing him for having a bad lock on his front door. You would never think to make such a asshole comment about your neighbor. Unless your neighbor is a Republican and you’re a Democrat, of course — because then your neighbor would be evil, so the niceties don’t really have to be observed.

Actually, it’s more like writing your PIN number on your ATM card and then leaving it in the machine… but never mind that because Patterico has a larger equivalency to fry when it comes to privacy:

But by night, he runs “TBogg” — a blog sufficiently popular to garner an invitation to be hosted on the wildly popular lefty blog FireDogLake.

And he thinks it’s hilarious that a conservative’s e-mail was hacked.

Get it through your heads, conservatives. If you believe in any restrictions in abortion on demand — any! — then there is no violation of privacy so egregious that these people wouldn’t chuckle if it happened to you. If you have the gall to oppose doctors sticking scissors into babies’ heads and sucking out the brains with a suction catheter, then you’re “anti-choice” — and anti-privacy. And that means it’s OK to go through your underwear drawer.

If someone burglarized your home, copied your diary, set up a camera in your bedroom, and published everything they found online, Amanda Marcotte and Tom Boggioni and their readers would laugh and laugh until they couldn’t breathe.

Only one type of privacy violation seems to disturb them. They’ll get very mad if you try to listen to phone calls placed by terrorists.

Such hardball tactics, you see, should be reserved for the real enemy.

Republicans.

But wait.

I thought we had all just agreed that Amanda and that Tom guy were disturbed by people who seem to think that they have some right to stick their collective noses into a perfect stranger’s  vagina (and not in a good way) and that offended Tom & Amanda’s privacy sensibilities. Now I have to disapprove of two crimes against privacy?  I’m going to have to get a bigger blog.

Needless to say, for someone who has such strong feelings about privacy on teh internets, Patterico can be downright  flexible  when he has to.