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Re: A few cents' worth (the remix)
Date: 2007-05-15 01:44 pm (UTC)re Tom Frank - yeah of course bad writing can inadvertently start conversations but I still think good writing does a better job, because with the bad writing there's always a straw man element, a temptation to construct a "they" out of "the people who believe this shit".