- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Phyllis McGinley and Ogden Nash evidently never would be allowed online, for all the flaming they'd get. Way too many comments on Keillor when he leaves essay and approaches tall tale, and now those who allergically react to Traister's lovely froth of verse, show their writers have no appreciation or even sense of hyperbole or indirection, in the service of wit.
What causes this paranoid literalness? Incompent English teachers? The increasing presumption that what one reads HAS to be true -- or else -- seems to come from fear. But of what?
