Poor Ann Althouse

It appears that law professor and blogger Ann Althouse is having trouble making sense of New York Times Best Selling author, Glenn Greenwald's writing style, or lack thereof.

Unfortunately for Ms. Althouse, I think this only serves to highlight the obviously provincial nature of that, I believe, mid-western university which employs her.

I'd like to see one of her law students write essays of the caliber of Greenwalds while pretending to be three other people on two computers across five different blogs at the same time, all discussing various aspects of Glenn Greenwald's character, accomplishments, or latest blog post. Not to mention his doing it as, all the while, that incessant merengue music is going on and on and on in the background.

As with any great author, one needs to develop a genuine feel for the artistry involved and not allow oneself to become hung up on frivolous constructs like sentence structure, punctuation and logic. It's his depth of thought that makes Greenald so special, for example:

Come on, shake your body baby
do the conga
I know you can't control yourself any longer
Come on, shake your body baby
do the conga
I know you can't control yourself any longer.

Reading Greenwald without appreciating his inherent artistry is simply torture. And I have it on good authority, he'd not approve of that development at all.

Comments

[not glenn greenwald, someone else]

And don't forget Greenwald's posts were read by Feingold on teh floor of congress! And he's a NYT top selling author. Etc.

[another completely different person]

Yeah, that person is right, Greenwald is a genius. And plus, reading from his wiki article, I see not only were his blog posts read in congressional debates, he has a top-selling book and the NYT based articles on his great insights! Man, Glenn is coo!

[a third, unrelated person]

Yeah! What they said!

[docweasel]

All those people can't be wrong. We need to take another look at this greenwald person Riehl is attacking so very unfairly!

[SinCerely]

Ann is all class.

Thanks for the congo music Dan ;)

[Phoenix]

Yeah...thanks, Dan.. That had me clapping and shaking my booty........shew! Worked up a sweat...

[agent bedhead]

You are soooo naughty, Dan. ;-)

[Gary Maxwell]

Man this guy must have very large sock drawer!

[BumperStickerist]

fwiw, Greenwald's prose nearly always perfectly matches the rhythm of 'The Yellow Rose of Texas'

I don't know if that helps or hurts Ann's case.

[Diva]

If Greenwald = literary torture
and
Feingold loves Greenwald's prose
then
Feingold supports torture. It's all transitive baby :)