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July 29, 2003

Good Fisking

You know, one of the more annoying habits in the blogosphere is so-called "fisking." It's the practice of taking a press release, opinion piece, or other article, quoting all or parts of it, and retorting with snappy rejoinders and cutting remarks.

When done well, it's devastating. Unfortunately, it's rarely done well, and is more often simply an angry rant.

But back in May, Mike Hendrix wrote a fisking of a sandwich that John Cole recently reminded me about. And you know, as fiskings go, it's a pretty good one. He deserves special points (and special sauce?) just for the concept.

(Yes, it was posted back in May. Like there's a statute of limitations on these things?)

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LOL

Fisking is merely the art of not constructing a coherent argument in order to prove that the fiskee is a dork and the fisker is correct, as usual.

Posted by Jane Finch on July 29, 2003 at 7:59 AM


I enjoyed the comments as much as the fisk. Have to agree, that "pot roast" sandwich sounded disgusting the first time I heard about it.

Posted by Holli on July 29, 2003 at 10:24 AM


Have 'em hold the disgusting horseradish ranch sauce and the Pot Roast Sandwich is pretty good. Mmmm, maybe I'll go get one for lunch.

Posted by Jerry Kindall on July 29, 2003 at 2:34 PM




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