Because Dan Riehl would cut me to ribbons in a few well-composed paragraphs; Glenn Reynolds might do the same with a single sentence.
You don’t mess with either one of those guys.
Disagree? Yep; all the time. But actually insult one of them? No.
Besides—they are both genuinely nice men. I don’t even understand the temptation.
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Real men can’t be insulted by ankle biters anyway! As you foretold, Riehl quickly dispatched this poor cur.
“Genuinely nice men” do not go ballistic over a simple, honest mistake and call the person in error an “ignorant buffoon” while accusing them of demigoguery. Not where I come from, at least.
Suggesting Dan Riehl is anything like Charles Johnson is fighting words.
In some states Dan could probably shoot him dead and be totally in the right. However, Dan can deal with hecklers just fine on his own with some well directed snark.