Adam Reilly surveys reaction to the Herald's shocking revelation that Amy Bishop played Dungeons and Dragons as a teen, just like Mucko McDermott and, um, Curt Schilling. He awaits the Herald's discovery of a third murderous D&D player, because as any ink-stained wretch knows, it's not officially a trend without three examples.
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Don't forget!
By cursedtofirst
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:03pm
Having been against the Iraq war is also apparently a risk factor for this type of behavior!
Honestly, most PHD students
By anon
Wed, 02/17/2010 - 9:01am
Honestly, most PHD students I've known were pretty insane, so should we ban PHD programs? Grand Theft Thesis!!
Please
By karenz
Fri, 02/19/2010 - 11:15pm
Please wait until AFTER I finish my dissertation!!
No, Not Black Leaf!!! NO! I am going to die!!
By sco
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:45pm
I don't want to be Elfstar! I want to be Debbie!!
Heh...
By FlyingToaster
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:51pm
... and at the original Herald article, all but 3 comments (as of 1:30pm) were criticisms of the author &/or the Herald.
As the GOS and Atrios always say, it's time for another blogger ethics panel... or maybe the Herald likes hemorrhaging readers and subscribers.
Intelligent, literate comments too!
By Ron Newman
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 2:32pm
Over 60 of them. Something I almost never see in the online Herald (or Globe, for that matter)
Toaster - good observation. I
By angry milkman
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 2:34pm
Toaster - good observation. I like The Herald but they really are in almost every instance so clueless about things like this (see the Herald's reporting on: City employee uses Twitter -- SHOCKING! and Grand Theft Auto = World's Greatest Evil). They need a consultant to sit them all down and show them a calendar and try to explain that the world has moved on since 1978.
If you've ever seen the
By WhoDat?
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 3:16pm
If you've ever seen the newsroom, you'd know they're not as far removed from 1978 as you'd hope. Editors still tapping out stories on ATEX terminals older than some reporters, old pica poles and measurement wheels piled up in abandoned offices, a high-school-style cafeteria and a night shift that still does some of its best work at J.J. Foley's. How can you progress culturally when your workplace has been frozen in time for three decades? If not for the imprints of old desks in vast, empty portions of the newsroom, you wouldn't know anything had changed at all.