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Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:00 AM

Bloggers' double-super-secret smoky room

Kos declares war against the New Republic, after a secret society of liberal bloggers is revealed.
Michael Scherer

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  • Friday, June 23, 2006 01:26 PM

    The Very Pineapple of Perfection

    "Then Moulitsas excoriated his followers to drop their subscriptions to TNR and block the magazine's heretical ideas from their minds."

    No, he didn't. He may have encouraged them; he may have told them; he may have directed them.

    He certainly didn't excoriate them.

    "To excoriate" means "to strip the skin off of."

    A place in the Leo Gorcey Hall of Fame has been reserved for this writer....

    —Dr. Zachary Smith Read Dr. Zachary Smith's other letters

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