Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

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Bill Sloat’s adolescent giggling reached a new fervor yesterday with this post—a trite commentary about Nate Livingston’s recent column claiming Tyrone Yates is gay. 

Apparently thinking himself savvy, Sloat refrains from mentioning any of the details in Livingston’s actual post—writing, instead, this:  “The things that appear on Livingston’s blog about Cincinnati’s former vice mayor will not be reprinted here. But they are available by clicking the link above, and have already been spread far and wide by the technology that powers the Internet.”

It’s not clear the manner by which Livingston’s story had been “spread far and wide,” but by linking to it Sloat has already done his part to increase the SEO of that particular entry.  Surely Sloat knows how linking increases site visibility.  So even while pretending to swoon with embarrassment at the salacious details Livingston provides, Sloat makes sure to do his part to drive people to those very same details.  And then he goes on to criticize the digital age for providing a flow for precisely that type of information!

Sloat writes, “We are now witnessing the unfettered and unchecked flow of information—perhaps scurrilous information—that is the downside ripple of the digital age.”

Sloat is like Lt. Frank Drebin, from The Naked Gun, standing in front of a fireworks factory, telling people there is “Nothing to see here.” (See image above.) He is either joking, or he has become a joke.

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