Now while having my first coffee of the day, I browse timesofmalta.com, this website, guardian.co.uk, La Stampa’s site and Sky News, and check my emails.

So do I really need to buy the print edition of The Times when even the obits and the classified are available on line?

The editorial slant taken over the last year or so has begun to really irritate me: the anti-Arriva crusade and pampering Franco Debono as the best politician on the island. Then there are the comments left by readers.

I feel apathy and sickness inside whenever I read them. I genuinely feel like crying and smashing my head against a wall. It’s like reading the thoughts of pretentious, self-denied conservatives, with the use of very diligently-put language.

I swear if I was a timesofmalta comment moderator I would consider suicide.

And Joseph Muscat is the UnderDoggy.

Actually he DID ask if dogs had votes in another posting on that particular thread.

Joseph Muscat’s father’s nickname is Id-Doggy.

I’m surprised Victor Laiviera did not complain that “this is just another goNziPn vote-catching initiative directed at the underdogs.”

I responded to Mr. Vella’s comment with the following, but wonder of wonders I was censored.

Sur Victor,
Min ma jafx li dik hi familja tal-allat ta’ Malta. Mhux ghal xejn ghandhom daqshekk prosopopea u aspettazzjonijiet ghaliex kullhadd, milll-KBIR saz-zghir, jinkina u jitkaxkar quddiemhom. Forsi xi darba ghad tohrog l-istorja kollha, dettaljata, u tonqsilhom xi ftit is-superjorita falza li ghandhom.

Oh we’ve seen much worse on this blog, Daphne can confirm, and that time we were not talking about a dog. All the hideous creatures crawled out from under the stones and carpets to sprawl their insults. It seems to some get their courage only when they’re hiding in anonymity.