Sorry to have dropped the article and run; I should know better than to do so right at the end of the work day. I forgot the Washington Post is a pain in the rear about registration...

No, actually, I thought nobody ever read/posted them but losers...people have been missing my erudite literary reviews to no good purpose...I hate that when that happens.

Oh, and for the record? I've never written a review of any of my own books, even for practice.

No big moral issues, or anything - just, the idea makes me blink. Although I thought it was funny as hell when Anne Coulter was outed a couple of years ago, for praising her own stuff at a review site under a psued - it might even have been Amazon.

And not only a review, but a fulsome review, a la "Anne Coulter has written a deeply penetrating work of social commentary. Everyone shoud read this book immediately! Her daring expose..."

Yada yada yada fishcakes, ad nauseum.

OMG. And I thought maybe I made her too narcissistic when I quite literally demonized her. Can't be done."We're very pretty."

erika, the woman is completely without shame.

Of course, since she's also without brains, without heart, without ethics, without scruples and without a soul, may as well toss shame into the mix as well.

It's mindblowing to a Bayliss like me, who sometimes can be immobilized by maybe, sort of having said something embarrassing five years ago, that such "people" exist.

Heh. What blows my mind about the woman is that she used to dance at Grateful Dead shows.

As an original Deadhead (we're talking 1968 or thereabouts), I'm surprised the miserable moo-cow wasn't struck by lightning.

And her books suck, too. Of course, so does she, which might explain how she got a book deal in the first place.

Whooo... now that was a such a fabulous diss upon the Coulter thing, I would COMM it if I weren't feeling reticent today.

I read some, while researching that,(shudder) Basically, it's "I Hate Them, They Must Be Up To Something." And "I Think So...It Must Be True."(I do that, too, but that's why I don't even try to argue politics at the table...I lead with my gut, and don't have the patience to pick through looking for fallacies, and stuff that you're supposed to do in a well-reasoned argument.) Where's my best-seller? And my rack's nicer, too. And I don't dress like Princess Leia.

Thing is, erika, you aren't making up facts and inventing false attributions because of all those annoying people who actually want some proof of your assertions.

Coulter, on the other hand, welllll....

I forget how many of the cites in her first screed turned out to be pure fabrication, but it was some unholy number. And she went off and praised her own work for its power, and courage, and accuracy, under a pseud.

Cow. And a mad cow, to boot.