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Ed Brayton has a post up regarding a WND column by Ellis Washington which is off-the-map weird. In it, Washington links vegetarianism and fascism because, well, Hitler was a vegetarian. I’m a vegetarian, so I guess by those standards … In any case, this reminded me of another column back in 2006 which claimed that…
Beware Friends Bearing Manuscripts
That’s something every editor should have laminated and stuck on the wall. There is nothing to make me cringe like a friend or relative telling me that they have a manuscript they’ve been working on for a long time. Inevitably this leads to the question, “Would you be interested in looking at it?” Depending on…
A Hippopotamus for David Ker
Well, not really. It’s mine. Here it is: I’ve had it since last Christmas but didn’t think of it until today when I looked at it sitting on my desk. You see, last year I commented to my wife that I thought the song “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” was “cute.” She never forgets…
The Balance of Outrage
Frequently I see the challenge to outrage on blogs or even occasionally in print media. It goes something like this: Group A has been very outraged by X, the horror of which is minimized by the writer. The writer describes something that outrages him or her, surely much more horrible than X, and wonders if…