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<\/td>\nI am still rather new to this blogging business (the
\n Dowbrigade has yet to celebrate its centennial edition), and so I take
\n it as a rite of passage that today I got my first "highly offended" comment.<\/p>\n
Actually, it warmed the cockles of my heart just to get a comment at
\n all. For all of the thousands of page reads I have I have accumulated
\n a total of four comments so far, 3 of them from an extremely suspicious
\n individual who seems to be writing from the library of an institutional
\n setting in the midwest.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the you-should-be-ashamed i feel compelled to respond: Aaron, please excuse me, I meant no disrespect. As It reminded me of what happened to the fiancee of one of my college So thank you for your offended comment which will hopefully be the I am still rather new to this blogging business (the Dowbrigade has yet to celebrate its centennial edition), and so I take it as a rite of passage that today I got my first "highly offended" comment. Actually, it warmed … Continue reading
\n commen<\/a>t concerned
\n a story I did back in July, during the early days of the Dowbrigade. \n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n
\n It was about a Massachusetts
\n English teacher who was killed in a collision with a moose<\/a>. A friend
\n of the deceased objected – not to the text, which was accurate, heartfelt
\n and suitably somber – but rather to the illustration, which featured
\n personal favorite, Bullwinkle J. Moose.<\/p>\n
\n an English teacher and an animal lover, I felt deeply the double nature
\n of this tragedy, and my selection of a sympathetic cartoon moose reflected,
\n in addition to my reluctance to use an image of a real moose which was
\n not the actual moose in question, was due to my desire to graphically
\n communicate the difficulty of the search for meaning in the superficial
\n absurdity
\n of everyday events.<\/p>\n
\n roommates. He was a Russian major who spent most of his time writing
\n dark, brooding humor for the Harvard Lampoon. She was a bright
\n young registered nurse who decided to take a tour of the Americas after
\n getting her license. She got as far as the Mexico City Zoo, where
\n she got too close to the elephant, trying to feed it peanuts, perhaps,
\n and was seized by the beast’s massive trunk, raised above its head, and
\n dashed against a concrete wall some 30 feet away. She died. The
\n last thing I would ever do is sensationalize a horrific tragedy like
\n that. <\/p>\n
\n first of many, and the first milestone on the inevitable road to infamy
\n and disrepute. I
\n look forward to reaching future additional anticipated milestones like
\n my first multi-comment article, my first real flame war, my first cease and
\n desist letter, my first real supoena…..So much to look forward to.\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"