{"id":16528,"date":"2014-02-24T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:12:32","slug":"this-months-best-fisking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/this-months-best-fisking\/","title":{"rendered":"This month’s best fisking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually ignore self-important little whiners (like this one, for instance<\/a>) who think the world would be a better place — for them — if it would only run on their<\/i> agenda.<\/p>\n

I mean, seriously. Life is just too short. Anyhow, Ayn Rand, for all her personal and literary faults, said all that ever needed to be said about such types in Atlas Shrugged<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s fun to watch a master tear self-righteous losers to pieces. To wit: Here’s successful writer Larry Correia savagely fisking a HuffPo whine-a-thon<\/a> by unsuccessful writer Lynn Shepherd. Shepherd thinks that the world’s most successful writer, JK Rowling, should step aside. Quit writing. Or at least quit publishing any work for grownups. Though Shepherd (generous soul that she is) would still “allow” Rowling to write for personal pleasure, or for children — as long as never an adult-oriented Rowlingian word ever again saw print.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, because it’s just unfair<\/i> that Rowling is doing so fabulously. She needs to stop writing to give other writers a fair chance<\/i>. And if Rowling really cared<\/i> about writing, she’d stop doing it.<\/p>\n

You go, Larry.<\/p>\n

(Harvard Crimson<\/i> superiority fest in that first link c\/o MJR.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually ignore self-important little whiners (like this one, for instance) who think the world would be a better place — for them — if it would only run on their agenda. I mean, seriously. Life is just too short. Anyhow, Ayn Rand, for all her personal and literary faults, said all that ever needed to be said about such types in Atlas Shrugged. Still, it’s fun to watch a master tear self-righteous losers to pieces. To wit: Here’s successful writer Larry Correia savagely fisking a HuffPo whine-a-thon by unsuccessful writer Lynn Shepherd. Shepherd thinks that the world’s most successful…<\/p>\n

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