Tremendously exercised blogger response today to Stephanie Salter’s San Francisco Chronicle essay, “W.W.J.D.?” — a first-person “letter” to George Bush written from the perspective of, well…Jesus Christ. Or, as Brian Linse more forcefully puts it (in an email he dashed off to Ms. Salter), “Oh my god, I still can’t believe it. You wrote in the voice of Jesus H. God Almighty Christ! Shit, I’m laughing so hard I can’t type any more…”

Here’s how the marvelous James Lileks characterizes Salter’s piece:

This column…sets a standard for all columnists to follow, and not just for its dial-tone prose. I