You’re nobody these days until you have enemies. Your humble scribe has been banned by a prominent anti-choice nut! Now I’m somebody!

Dawn Eden is a copy editor and sometime headline writer who was fired a year ago by the New York Post (yes, there’s a writer bad enough to get fired by the Post!) for unilaterally inserting “pro-life” terminology into a reporter’s text. She runs the blog “Dawn Patrol“, a widely-read anti-choice locus with a hipper-than-usual demeanor and the normal quota of distortion and falsehood. She links some kind of SAT-essay post written by two high school students (yes, really) about the need for politeness in debate and declares it to be her “posting rules”; since politeness is in the eye of the beholder (I think it’s polite to tell idiots they’re idiots - how else are they going to learn?), she essentially has no rules at all but won’t say so. Last week she posted some sort of confused statement about a judge’s ruling in a court case that demonstrated she did not understand the ruling, and so I explained it to her in my normally polite manner. Several of her readers objected that my position on the outcome of the case was wrong, and I re-posted, pointing out that they were deficient in reading comprehension inasmuch as my point had been about a judge’s procedural ruling, not the substantive facts of the case. That comment was deleted by Dawn, who just can’t handle the hard truth. But wait! There’s more . . .!

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