Today In Pointless Blogfeuds

Oh, man. Have we got an old-fashioned, knock-down-drag-out battle for you today. In one corner (on the left), Bernie O’Hare, Lehigh Valley blogger who lists Napoleon Dynamite as one of his favorite movies. And in the other corner, we have Tony Phyrillas, shameless self-promoter who doesn’t take anything from the government when he drives, which means he lays his own roads.

(Aside: In addition to being ranked as one of the top Greek-American bloggers, Phyrillas is a columnist for the Pottstown Mercury. While perusing Phyrillas’ blog, I came across this post about a guy who made an two-story outhouse with “politicians” up top and “taxpayers” at the bottom. Ho, ho! What an indictment of their policies! Anyway, Phyrillas says this outhouse “was the talk of the newsroom for days.” Now that sounds more fun than recounting to my coworkers my latest failed blind date.)

After the jump, the lowdown on the most pointless blog feud since… well, they’re all pointless, aren’t they?

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Mooching Liberal Fat Cats Riding Subsidized Trains

Local suburban angry conservative columnist Tony Phyrillas is angry at liberals! Of course, you say. Yes, but only this time he’s angry at liberals for mass transit. (According to his bio on the prestigious WEBCommentary.com, Phyrillas was also “named one of the leading Greek-American bloggers in the world by Odyssey magazine.”)

According to Phyrillas, SEPTA shouldn’t be subsidized because the only people who take it are rich bastards who could afford to pay more to take the train into town.

I don’t know how much the train ride into Center City costs, but let’s say it’s $10 a day. Can a family making $200,000 a year afford to pay $20 a day to get to work? I think they can, but why should they when Pennsylvania taxpayers pick up the tab?

Ahh, the ol’ strategy of admitting you didn’t bother to look anything up in the first sentence up there. I wonder if the other top Greek-American bloggers know to look up things?

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