[Pokey78]

[Welsh Rabbit]

How sad. He'll be greatly missed... Where can I go to piss on his grave?

[dighton]

It's a generally good rule not to speak ill of the dead. I wish Professor Said had observed it in the days after September 11th when his almost every utterance was an insult to his fellow New Yorkers vaporized a few blocks from his ivory tower.

[lainde]

Thank you Mark Steyn...And a megabump!

[Victoria Delsoul]

He was a hugely influential academic, who found a way to make the institutional "counter-tribalism" (in John O'Sullivan's phrase) of America's elites pay off for him big time. His bestselling Orientalism is a deeply disingenuous work riddled with factual errors and with a selectivity of focus that negates its main claim. But it remains a stunningly successful example of how to parlay western self-loathing into bestseller status.

Bumpity, bump, bump, bump.