May 02, 2005 | Sue the Bastards Persons Whose Parentage is Questioned by Some Critics

Like all good cynics enlightened readers, I love reading above and below the line.

For example, look at Matt Welch's Hit & Run take today on Congress's attempt at an intervention for professional athletes who use steroids.

In case (like me) you don't follow football, the House Committee on Golden Showers House Committee on Government Reform used the National Football League as its second professional patsy last week, revealing along the way that our nation's money-thieving scolds lawmakers, led by John "Who Else?" McCain, are drafting one-size-fits-all drug-testing legislation.

(Aside: I wonder if Hit & Run has no blogroll because the membership of the Federation of Howard Roark Fan Clubs (each, of couse, being a Club of One) the editors think it is a sign of liberalism, regulationism, we-ism, anti-I-ism, do-gooders-wanting-to-prohibit-me-from-recreationally-clubbing-my-pet-endangered-baby-seal-ism creeping socialism. Or maybe they used to have one, but it got taken by the government in some nefarious eminent domain litigation.)

I don't much use the strikethrough much when I write, though.

One reason is that I wonder about the libelity of the strikethrough.

If I use strikethrough to call the cliche aggregator social critic Thomas Friedman a repeat juvenile delinquent who ought to be sentenced as an adult son-of-questionable-character for abusing his mother tongue, could he sue me for libel?

Posted by Ryan Singel at May 2, 2005 09:53 AM

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