ash is working on an expose which will contain this piece. Since it’s quite a lengthy project and nowhere near complete, she decided to post this stand-alone...

As has been noted, one of ash’s favorite literary devices is to take a correspondent’s phrase and use it in her response, slightly changing the...

“If you can’t say anything nice…’ Let’s just say ash’s mother never advocated that particular piece of wisdom. In fact, ash is grateful she...

Here’s a case where ash’s letter makes no sense but as a rebuttal to another. More than she disdains propaganda is propaganda appropriated whole from...

The title refers to the fact that, as ash has noted in other letters, the conservative columnist George Will commonly enlarges upon his comments during...