Latest Dan Brown Award Winner is

Lisa Miller.

Rebuttal is here.

Comments

[Peter Terp]

Yay! You fixed the blog...at some point, I'm going to need a tutorial on how to do that...

[Al T]

I think the problem is when you copy and paste from Word. There are a lot of funky formatting strings in there that are invisible to you when you're copying the text, but appear to get in the way of the blog's CSS.

[Peter Terp]

Darned Word and it's invisible string voodoo.

So I couldn't bear to get through Miller's article. I had to read the retort to dilute the effects of her insipid interpretive skills.

Essentially, I think we have a classic case of a freshman writer who thinks they are going to persuade a hostile audience by appealing to their values...only they have those values so horrible and perversely misunderstood that they end up repelling the audience like a three-day-old skunk on a country road...

Oh, man...I think I'm seriously concerned about my choice of metaphors. I need to go spend some time in an urban environment fast...maybe get mugged once or twice...