It looks like the Doctor has officially rejoined the site, after being on hiatus for about 12 hours.  With him he seems to bring a more combative tone, though still cloaked in his rhetoric of civility.

Let's start with a bit of history.  There was a time when the Doc and I got along quite well.  When he and I first started here, I had his back.  In fact, refering to him as "Doc" was my way of trying to reach out to him.

There we a few blow ups like this one: http://people.bakersfield.c...
Which led to this: http://people.bakersfield.c...

Which led to this: http://people.bakersfield.c...

A big-time blunder by a right-wing Bakersfield blogger who goes by his initials, Dr. BLT, and who is the self-proclaimed King of Blog and Roll, is now being compared to Dan Rather's fall from grace (listen to one-song sound-track to this blog thread now). Dr. BLT, (who recently alledgedly jumped the gun, implying that a Bakersfield Bush-bashing blogger had deleted comments he made at the Bush-bashing site) was noteably chagrined when a trusted commenting party who goes by the screen name of TomW said in a comment that he trusted that Bush-bashing blogger from Bakersfield had not banned the blog n roll one-man band, Dr. BLT. That's right! There is a rumor that the newly disgraced Dr. BLT (aka, yours truly) has committed the biggest bloggin' blunder since the Rather Matter. Was the alledged fascist-styled censoring incident the result of a technical glitch, is the alledged censoring party covering up his tracks, or is a vast left-wing conspiracy involved. Or, is this simply a lame publicity stunt? You are the commenter. You decide.
Ah, trips down memory lane.

As time went on, he seemed to realize that controversy was good for readership.  Stirring things up became more important than getting along.  Which is all well and good except when some of us are actually trying to find ways of getting along.

His style of acting like the kid on the playground who hits people then cries to the teachers when he gets hit back has become ingrained, rewarded by the desire on the part of a lot of people to defend their position against outrageous attack and to comfort and be kind to people who feel they have been wronged.

So the question now is how do you deal with this type of blogger?  Do you just ignore them as someone who's only goal is the attention (good or bad) that is generated by this shuttling back and forth from agitator to martyr, do you try to engage them and point out the folly of their ways, or do you actually begin to act in the way that he has at one time or another accused many of us of acting and give him no quarter?

My temptation now is to be true to my word:

	You get one freebie, Doc.  Then we go after you like chickens seeing blood.  ;)

But I'm sure my better angels will once again get the best of me.  What say you?