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January 15, 2008

Orthography Is The Last Refuge Of Scoundrels

In his harangue against John Gray and Gray's book Straw Dogs, Carlin Romano contends that "[l]ike [Michael] Moore, Gray regularly gets facts and history wrong." Romano's leading example? That "[a]s [Gray] excoriates neocon intellectuals such as Allan Bloom, Gray spells Bloom's name wrong." [My emphasis.]

Strong stuff. Why, I'll even bet Gray once split an infinitive.

Seriously, isn't this sort of schoolboy Gotcha! embarrassing enough when you see it in a comment thread?

[Via Arts & Letters Daily.]

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