Now he’s done it.\u00c2\u00a0 Allen is attacking Webb for characters and incidents in his novels.\u00c2\u00a0 Setting aside for the moment that George couldn’t write a novel if his life depended on it, let’s take this idea for a test drive.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s called fiction, George.\u00c2\u00a0 By your reckoning Tolstoy would favor women throwing themselves in front of trains.\u00c2\u00a0 Kafka would be pro insect.\u00c2\u00a0 Shakespeare encourages teen sex and suicide pacts, blinding people with your bare hands, and letting old people wander around without proper medical care.\u00c2\u00a0 As for me, I favor young impressionable boys being raised by a man with lizard genes and a multiple personality and time-traveling anarchists taking on the CSA.\u00c2\u00a0 Right.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope my fellow Virginians are as disgusted as I am by this insult to our intelligence.\u00c2\u00a0 Two more years of W is bad enough, but six more years of Senator Macaca?\u00c2\u00a0 And Jim, if you’re listening, I hope you sell a ton of books, and thanks for running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now he’s done it.\u00c2\u00a0 Allen is attacking Webb for characters and incidents in his novels.\u00c2\u00a0 Setting aside for the moment that George couldn’t write a novel if his life depended on it, let’s take this idea for a test drive.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading