(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
As per his usual, Mickey Kaus can be relied upon to force all manner of ill-fitting square pegs into undersized round holes. Ostensibly writing about Joe Strummer's output, death, and obituaries, Kaus manages to field all his hobby horses save his "End Welfare Now!" steed, his most exercised mount - though in fairness it must be noted that Kaus limited himself to 277 words. Aside from proving his complete ignorance of the milieu from which The Clash emerged and his inability to read a pair of enduring cultural documents ("Safe European Home" and "Rock the casbah"), famed liberal Kaus takes the predictable swing at Howell Raines, editor of a fine paper which ran a Strummer obit that allegedly "diminishe[d] The Clash," by titling his latest "Howell Don't Like It." This prompted the indefatigable Jeff Hauer to ask: "And HOW exactly does "Howell" fit into this picture? Mickey doesn't tell us explicitly because he assumes that his reader is bright enough to understand that those who run newspapers close-edit each sentence in the obit of rock stars."
And people say this present site is predictable. posted by Anonymous2:26 AM
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WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.
