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The conservative blogger wants to know why I wrote about threats to Kathy Sierra, and not her. Here's my answer.
  • i don't get it

    what exactly is her area of expertise? which subjects, exactly, is she a renowned (or merely acknowledged) scholar of? her advanced degrees? her vast worldly experience?

    why, exactly, does anyone with even a marginally clued perspective partiulalry care what she has to say about anything? much less actually bother to respond and/or engage her?

    and yes, all of the above applies to coulter as well as malkin. perhaps we should just drop the pretense, and grab random sheltered, spoiled, over-ripe sorority princesses, and ask them their opinions about world afairs and the scoliological trends and issues that we're constantly struggling with, no?

    and if that sorority bit sounds sexist, well, too bad. the only reason anyone knows either of those clowns' names is because they are relatively youngish and apparently female, and that is enough for the particularly pathetic on the far right to give them a platform, and enough for the equally pathetic to adore them. really, just thinking about it is remarkably nauseating to all but the most hardened opiate addicts and others equally used to regularly puking in their own mouths.

    but that doesn't mean we have to pretend they have anything to say or anything to add to the conversation, do we? do we really need to dignify their deranged meanderings with a response?