IT APPEARS THAT MEGAN MCARDLE has gotten the same blizzard of hatemail that I’ve gotten these past few days, but she seems to be taking it more personally.

Don’t quit blogging, Megan. That’s what they want, sour, jealous losers that they are. It’s easier to send hatemail than it is to persuade people, I guess. I’ll bet it was anonymous, or pseudonymous, too.

UPDATE: Porphyrogenitus comments. The antiwar folks are losing the argument on this one, and they know it. So they’re turning up the volume on invective instead.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader says he went and hit Megan’s tipjar in an effort to make her feel better. Couldn’t hurt!

Note to hatemailers: If you attach your hatemail to a $100 paypal donation, I promise to read it carefully.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Re hatemail, Oliver Willis emails:

FYI, I’ve been receiving my fair share of it from the right (someone thought I was a treasonous leftist for not supporting Patriot II). Jesse of Pandagon.net got an email blizzard this past week that almost killed his email, and Atrios has gotten slammed too. So it isn’t some vast left-wing conspiracy.

Hey, I guess I’m a “treasonous leftist” too!