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We can’t blame Courtland Milloy, really. His last column got so much attention (guilty as charged!) that he’d be foolish not to keep it up, right? (He sure is hauling in the pageviews.) It’s said that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and, to be honest, this is probably the most that people have read Milloy in a long time.

But I actually cackled a bit and rubbed my hands together like some kind of evil sorcerer (fitting, I guess, considering the headline) when I read Milloy’s latest rant against the whippersnappers this morning. You see, this week, Milloy decided to tackle a subject that we know quite a bit about around these parts: commenting on the internet.

“Once again D.C. returns to the days of corruption, graft, and incompetence…and the D.C. voters only have themselves to blame.”

You’ll find thousands of comments like that posted anonymously on The Washington Post Web site, alongside news stories and columns about the election. The volume of similarly expressed thoughts is so great as to give the impression of a massive mind meld, intent on subverting Gray by sheer force of ill will and contempt.

Gray, whose victory over Mayor Adrian Fenty probably means the departure of Rhee, and Gray’s black supporters are now right up there with President Obama as targets of white, racist sentiment not seen publicly expressed since the 1950s.

That’s…quite a generalization there. But if you’ll allow, I’d like to eschew the race-baiting and general “get off my lawn”-ness of Milloy’s assertions and focus on his thoughts on anonymous internet commentary. (Okay, one for fun: “[b]ut this torrent of racist views aimed at blacks and expressed ad nauseam through mainstream media garners hardly a peep, except from black people”. Oof. Alex Baca does a laudable job of taking down the racial aspects of this particular column over at her blog.) It appears that Mr. Milloy has just now come to the realization that his newspaper’s website is heavily trafficked by the “myopic little twits” which he so virulently decried last week as one of the District’s biggest problems. Welcome to 2010, man. We can only imagine the column which Milloy would produce if he had wandered over to the WTOP forums.

(Before I continue: have I told you guys I love you lately? Well, I do.)