LOGOPOIOS

The Logopoios, or myth-maker, rumour-monger, was Theophrastus's eighth imaginary character. He was a gossip, and having spread false rumours at the barber's (as I remember it) was arrested, taken before the magistrates, and tortured.

The blogosphere is host to many logopoioi, who blather falsehood and vitriol in the elecronic barber's chair.

I hope I have not blathered falsehood, but vitriol I will admit to. My invention of Bogus Smirk, who started life as a Catholic Priest, and has degenerated into a substance-abusing syncretist cult-founder is an example, a straw man I invented to belabour, ridicule, and belittle those whose opinions I hate. This is definitely uncharitable, possibly destructive, and must be thought over.

Happy Christmas to all, targets included.