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Archive for April 30th, 2004

Friday, April 30th, 2004

The Rest of the Story

The Rest of the Story – After Andrew Olmsted linked to “Late Night Thoughts of a Defeatist,” Andrea Harris accused me, in his comments section, of inflating “one incident” – the probable drowning of Iraqi blogger Zeyad’s cousin by American troops – into some kind of generalized pattern of abuse and mistreatment. This was surprising, [...]

Friday, April 30th, 2004

Bargain Wins

Bargain Wins – Kelly Jane Torrance considers remainders, and links to Terry Teachout describing his emotions on learning of the remaindering of a recent book of his own. “He seems much more philosophical about it than I imagine I would be,” she writes.
Harlan Ellison always said he couldn’t wait until his books went out of [...]