Max Sawicky calls Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, Charles Johnson, and Steven Den Beste "the Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse". Mean Mr. Mustard provides a picture of the Four Horsemen suitable for T-shirting, and Andrea Harris provides another of the Three Furies (JoAnne Jacobs, Jane Galt, and Michele of A Small Victory) abusing an allegorical depiction of Leftism.

Some bloggers have felt left out of these two lists. Of course, if we stick with the apocalyptic theme, there are still some roles to fill:

• Who is the Scarlet Woman, the Whore of Babylon? New York City is often called the new Babylon, which may help winnow the candidates . . . not that I have anyone in particular in mind.
• Who is the Beast, and why is his (or her) number 666?
• Who are the seven heads and ten horns of the beast?
• Will the Euphrates be dried up in the near future, as foretold in Revelation 16.12? Unfortunately for Biblical literalists, it is dried up to "make way for the king from the East". U.S. forces will likely approach Baghdad from the north, west, and south, but not the east, so identification of Bush as this king will not be easy.

I'm sure those more familiar with the Bible can come up with more positions to fill.

Of course, the funniest thing about Sawicky's post is the second paragraph:

Believe it or not, I long for civility, but I have an ulterior motive. I think my arguments are so good that they will prosper in a rational debate. It also makes life more interesting. I would rather test my views against somebody sharp like Eugene Volokh than throw verbal mudballs at silly people. What the hell, I could be convinced I'm wrong. It's happened. I actually appreciate it, though I can't say it doesn't ache a little.

Long-time readers of his blog or mine will recall Sawicky's claim last October that warbloggers "hail" Oliver North "as an American hero". When I challenged this assertion, he provided 24 URLs, not one of which pointed to an actual major (Myelin Top 500) warblogger calling North a 'hero' or anything similarly adulatory, and very few of which were even all that positive, as I demonstrated in tedious detail here and summarized here.

More than a month later, Sawicky was still insisting that North is "favorite of a disputed number of warbloggers". The number is only in dispute because he continues to pretend that it is not zero. Sawicky 'appreciates being shown he is wrong' so much that he banned me from his comments for doing just that.

Postscript:

Macaulay once encountered a man who had found the Number of the Beast in Napoleon's name, assuring him that "if you write Napoleon Bonaparte in Arabic, leaving out only two letters, it will give 666". When challenged for a better candidate, Macaulay answered: ""'Sir,' said I, 'the House of Commons is the Beast. There are 658 members of the House; and these, with their chief officers — the three clerks, the sergeant and his deputy, the chaplain, the door-keeper, and the librarian — make 666.'" (Letter of July 1, 1834 in Life and Letters of T. B. Macaulay, ed. G. O. Trevelyan, 1876, 1.132, or Letters of T. B. Macaulay, ed. T. Pinney, Cambridge, 1974, 3.61.)