What does vicious mean?

I watched the Althouse rant that Ezra pointed to and thought to myself, "Self, you've read a bunch of TAPPED posts in your life. Perhaps even some about Ann Althouse. Can you remember any that were particularly, as she put it, 'vicious' to her?" I answered no to this question, but decided to double check.

It turns out that, by taking the bold step of searching Google, one can find a mighty dozen links to Prospect blog threads that use the word "Althouse". Of those, a slightly-less-mighty three contain the word "Althouse" in the meat of the post. They are here, here, and here . (The remaining posts contain the word "Althouse" in the comment threads only.)

Now it's true that, of those four posts, none says overtly nice things about Althouse. In his post, Scott implies that he doesn't respect Althouse. And Linda calls her a "conservative diva" (which bloggingheads may have just validated). But none of that seems particularly vicious. As for why she thinks calling the Jessica Valenti breast controversy the "Jessica Valenti breast controversy" is unfair--and why the topic itself is not appropriate subject matter for bloggingheads--I think the lady doth protest too much.

Update: I know that Ezra and Matt and Scott and others all have their own blogs. And they have probably been less charitable to Althouse in those venues. But TAPPED is it's own blog. And it is--perhaps--the least offensive site on the internet.

Update 2: I take it back. This is the least offensive site on the internet.