DougBait

I mocked Nick Douglas for crawling back to Denton after Lock intentionally humiliated the poor fuck for all the world to see but I think I see his real motivation now. Take a leisurely walk through the Flickr nickdouglas and valleywag tags. You'll find a kid after 4 years at a religious college in a corner of Pennsylvania who's now on 24-hour Polk Street Poon Patrol with his new foster city family big shots like Digg's Kevin Rose. Press The Flesh and Eat The Press are no longer colloquial metaphors. I'm disappointed there are no pics of him flashing the tongue wagging V-Sign salute.

Related: In what turned out to be my belated holiday gift to Valleywag readers, Rex goaded me into commenting last night (plus here and here) when I wasn't even aware that our favorite goon-editor was back from vacation. Every once in awhile I don't mind making the site an enjoyable read with my serrated-edge killer insight. It's charity season and all.

Update: In the comments below, HP-ETP's Rachel Sklar takes issue with the characterization of Nick Douglas "crawling back to Denton" after he was fired by the man in the most crudest of ways. She goes on to say that Valleywag (or all of Gawker Media) and Huffington Post are in bed together, which is fine except it's just this kind of media coziness that makes coverage suffer and everyone go limp. Perhaps "crawling" was a poor choice of words. Let me try this again. Barring any predilection for fecal porn, when someone takes a shit on your face, you're not supposed to eat it and ask for more.