The crew here at PW would like to extend thanks to AintNoBadDude, Libertarian Samizdata, Dawson J., Matthew Edgar, and Chris Pellerito for their encouragements and (on occasion) prominent site-specific mentions. And while we’re at it, we were wondering — any of y’all drink Newcastle? ‘S far too good for a Wednesday night, that’s for sure — but hey, it’s the Holiday Season, so we’re indulging, nevertheless… The effect, we’re happy to report, is dazzling.

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Perry de Havilland at Libertarian Samizdata responds to Dr. Anne, who questioned his tolerance of academics:

[…] my combat sortie over the University of Chicago went after Cass Sunstein with a B-52 loaded with large ‘dumb bombs’ rather than a F-18 with a smart-bomb. But you know what tenured academics are like… it can be harder to dig ’em out than a Taliban in Tora Bora.

Hmmm, actually that proved surprisingly easy, come to mention it. Anyway, sorry about the ‘civilian casualties’ Anne, but these things happen. War is hell.

Dr. Anne responds in kind…

No worries, Perry. By and large, the academy deserves a couple of well-placed Daisy Cutters dropped in its lap — even those dropped rhetorically by our ‘cross-the-puddle perma-allies. Of course, 15,000 lbs. of “smartbomb” might be a bit too much to ask for from a Brit. [smiles] — ADC.

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Blog King and Coulterphile Dawson J. writes:

Hey Y’all, my ‘liberal asshole friend from LA’, Brian Linse (whom I love), suggested I drop in…excellent! I esp. love that you are academic/artist types…and still have sense! (I’m in the writing prog. at UNCW) looks like I’ll have to break my pledge and add another blog to the old list. THIS is a fresh angle indeed. best~d

The Crew at PW responds (simultaneously thanking the fates they didn’t go with a name that could be reduced to “PU”)…

Thanks a bunch, Dawson. We’ve been trying to add you to our “vintage blogs,” but we’ve been having trouble mastering the site (actually, Blogspot’s Template manager is undergoing some sort of violent internal revolution; our money’s on the “0”s). But then, that’s how “writers” come up with material, nicht war? — getting lost in things like coding and hyperlinks. Why, just a few hours ago (to give you an example), while trying to link to your site, we ran into Umberto Eco — in his most insidious binary incarnation (he looked like some SuperVillian out of a Neal Stephenson novel) — worming his way through our cd rom drive, looking to crib some code we’d used to publish a heretofore “illegal” picture of John Ritter to an online porn site.

Well, Eco may be clever, but he’s no match for a heavy, Colorado workboot, I can tell you that much — so for those of you waiting for a sequel to Foucault’s Pendulum, you might want to pull up a chair…

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