February 23, 2007

WHAT'S TRAILBLAZING ABOUT HATING CATHOLICS?:

Blog blunders highlight pitfalls of political cyberspace (Ellen Goodman, 2/23/07, Boston Globe)

I suppose you could describe these two women as cybertrailblazers. But their cybertrails, alas, followed them from a checkered past, not to the glorious future. And the blaze they created was a bit more like a flameout.

More like a cross burning on a lawn.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 23, 2007 7:17 AM
Comments

"But their cybertrails, alas, followed them from a checkered past, not to the glorious future."

It's gonna take more than a cybertrailblazer to parse that sentence.

Posted by: jdkelly at February 23, 2007 8:30 AM

That's Ellen Goodwrench--er, um, Goodbar, right?--no, I mean Goodman: metaphor stacked on metaphor, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Posted by: Mike Morley at February 23, 2007 1:50 PM
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