I agree, some of it was a little off-putting, but Andrew Leonard is one of the better writers at Salon and I thought he was just trying to address the stereotype about "Silly Con" valley and speak against it. He wrote: "Watsi must also bear the misfortune of coming of age during a simmering backlash against Silicon Valley" and then goes on to hold Watsi up as a counter example. I'm not aware of this simmering backlash against Silicon Valley, but it must exist somewhere for him to write about it this way.