Oh, dear!

Conservatives get into the act of overloading email servers, too. After an op-ed piece by Joel Stein appeared in the LA Times, he was email-bombed by loads of putative conservatives, as Deborah Howell was by liberals at the Washington Post.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin quickly nominated Stein as "one of the most loathsome people in America." The Irish Pennants (www.irishpennants.com) site slammed him as "slime" but gave credit for honesty, adding:

"At least he is straightforward slime."

Stein said that, despite the fact that his e-mail address was not made public by the paper, he had received some 100 "hate e-mails" by noon.