For some reason, every time I need a laugh, I go check out this vintage fisking of Ted Rall. This was written over a year ago by Anne Coughman (of the defunct Protein Wisdom– how we miss you), and it is still, by leaps and bounds, my favorite fisking of all time. Hell- this was the best fisking before we even called it fisking. Here is some of it:
Just because I find his work so remarkably irritating, I’ve “responded” to Ted Rall’s latest offering, “Snappy New Jeer” — another shallow dish of fetid word salad that’s light on the lettuce and heavy on the crumbled cheese. Actually, I suppose I haven’t so much responded to him as I have “reacted” to his bilious twaddle — by way of smarmy rejoinders of my own. Rall’s bunk will be block quoted, whereas mine is free to sniff the margins. You’re welcome to add your own mental observations…
Go read the whole thing.