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Less Wrong

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Written by: Rita Cormulley
Category: Letters
Published: 01 January 2024
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ash makes the link between two letters by the same local correspondent. Note the editor's correction ONLY to the writer's factual error:

•  Moore right about ‘culture of hypocrisy’

I read with great interest an article on the July 9 front page, stating that former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore wears a small lapel pin shaped like that of the Ten Commandments.

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Try This at Home

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Written by: Rita Cormulley
Category: Letters
Published: 01 January 2024
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This letter assumes readers are aware of the fact that Ted Rall and Ann Coulter are featured on the same day (or used to be), one above the other for dramatic contrast. Note its preemptive structure:



One thing – possibly the only thing – I’ve learned from conservatives is how to deflect a controversy.

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"Snide" is a Tricky Literary Device

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Written by: Rita Cormulley
Category: Letters
Published: 01 January 2024
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The writer to whom ash replies was nearly as prolific a correspondent as she was – before she let her subscription expire and gradually phased out reading the editorial pages. As far as she knows he is still defending all things conservative. This exchange occurred long before the man in question tacitly admitted ash had it right:


Let's see, what was that politician's name?

As I read and hear about the "get Tom Delay at all costs even if it takes three grand juries" money laundering indictment, a question occurred to me, and I am trying to remember a name.

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Piling On

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Written by: Rita Cormulley
Category: Letters
Published: 01 January 2024
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Strong language begets strong language. Self-appointed apologism, to coin a noun, is a nasty business, although ash is sure the apologist below would describe it as a noble mission. In the interest of full disclosure, the original writer whom Mr. Sullivan cites is ash’s close friend. Also, Mr. Sullivan got himself a rebuttal letter in which he revealed his ignorance of the famous passage ash had paraphrased by doubting, in all sincerity, that anybody would “come for me”:


•  Democrats not averse to sneaking, peeking

What is it with people like Diane Greenholdt?

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