Scathing Online Schoolmarm says: Caitlin Flanagan is quite right that insincerity and the perfectly chosen word can take you places for a long, long time. A man can found a career in letters on it. And then he can continue using that approach when his career bites the big one.
Elie Wiesel would have said I will not waste this reckoning if he’d been alive to respond to this. It has a way-dignified biblical-lamentation cadence which SOS would recommend for any Great Man found to have nibbled a tit.
I will not waste this reckoning, announced George Bush The Elder.
I will not waste this reckoning, insisted Bill Clinton.
I will not waste this weckoning, said Elmer Fudd.
November 14th, 2017 at 1:07PM
Damn, good help is hard to find, especially for The New Republic. About twenty years ago, they hired Stephan Glass to write hard hitting, insightful articles about things that never happened. Then they get a creep who has the most childish sexual impulses to run the place. I know that businesses that rely on the written word are hurting. But they gotta put more money into HR…
November 14th, 2017 at 5:47PM
Don’t forget Lee Siegel writing sock puppet comments to his own blog posts!
November 14th, 2017 at 6:15PM
dcat: Forgot that one! Thanks for the reminder.
November 14th, 2017 at 6:33PM
Oh hell, I, too, forgot about Lee baby. Thanks, dcat….