- In a column so long it took five Internet pages (standard word capacity for an Internet page: ∞), the most important thing (judged by placement in the story) that King has to say is that Brett Favre has a nice house.
- King apparently makes a distinction between "things I think I think" and "things I think I know," limiting this latest column to the latter. Try to come up with an explanation of that distinction that doesn't yield the result "Peter King usually is a crappy journalist."
- "[A] statue of Gandhi in Jackson seems about as in-the-right place as a statue of Ward Cleaver at the Playboy Mansion." You hear that, Jackson, Missisippi? As the world's most recognizable locus of sexual depravity is to a mostly-forgotten tame-seeming guy from a 50-year-old fictional TV show, so are you, in your illimitable thirst for violence and wanton oppression, to the man who represents the ideal of nonviolent resistance.
- King has no qualms about a three-beer working dinner, even if the guy he's interviewing is conspicuously drinking iced tea.
Monday, July 28, 2008
AN ONTOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY: I've been reading way too much of the Fire Joe Morgan archives lately, so I have to fight off a powerful urge to do a FJM-lite response to Peter King's latest column (I also don't care to wade back into the Brett Favre debate because my feelings haven't changed one bit). Still, I can't stop myself from making the following observations:
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