Cory Doctorow's Dangerous Friends
Cory Doctorow is a novelist, a visiting lecturer at Yale, a fellow at Stanhope Center in London, a Contributing Writer to Wired Magazine, a columnist for Popular Science, co-editor of the vastly popular blog, BoingBoing, and the European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He jets around the globe often enough to be a Platinum frequent flyer on American Airlines. That didn't stop him from having an American Airlines security guard at London Gatwick demand he produce a dossier of his friends' names and addresses before he'd be allowed to fly. The whole disturbing story, still awaiting a reply of actual substance from American Airlines, is posted here .
I looked up "poseur" in my Franch-English dictionary only to find Cory Doctorow's picture.
The airlines should simply refuse to carry him.
Richard Bennett at April 13, 2005 6:18 PM
You're just jealous of his fabulous, jetsetting lifestyle.
Lena-doodle-doo at April 13, 2005 8:51 PM
Dick-
Calling the kettle black.
eric at April 13, 2005 9:04 PM
Um, excuse me, but in which of his many areas of accomplishment is he merely "posing"?
Amy Alkon at April 13, 2005 10:33 PM
This Doctorow guy's crazy. If we didn't keep tabs on him, he might do even more for the violent Islamist movement than Yusuf Islam.
Wait...
Little ted at April 13, 2005 11:46 PM
What accomplishments, crappy novels? Phony civil libertarianism? Hypocritical (for an immigrant) America-hating? Saddam-boosting?
Little Cory is just another mediocre Canadian who should have stayed in his own country and left the serious issues to the grown-ups.
Richard Bennett at April 14, 2005 10:43 AM
I guess he wouldn't be the first crappy, phony, hypocritical (etc) person who's also very productive and successful.
Lena at April 14, 2005 1:37 PM
I wish people would call me a poseur. Just because they generally do that when you're so rich and successful that they all turn a lovely shade of lime green every time your name comes up. Of course, I'd be richer if I wrote like Dear Abby, but I'd turn tricks and eat out of dumpsters before I'd do that!
Amy Alkon at April 14, 2005 1:44 PM
You can find some pretty tasty, half-eaten Big Macs in those dumpsters, Amy. Don't knock it till you try it!
Lena-doodle-doo at April 14, 2005 2:07 PM
I guess he wouldn't be the first crappy, phony, hypocritical (etc) person who's also very productive and successful.
Yeah, Kofi Annan's kid has done pretty well for himself too.
Richard Bennett at April 14, 2005 3:58 PM
Not to mention Andrea Dworkin, deceased feminist icon.
Richard Bennett at April 14, 2005 4:00 PM
Deceased dispenser of propaganda fashioned around her psychological problems.
Amy Alkon at April 14, 2005 4:16 PM
Insightful opinions are an act of rape!
Doug Mason at April 14, 2005 4:32 PM
Cory Doctorow is the Andrea Dworkin of civil liberties.
Richard Bennett at April 14, 2005 5:42 PM
In another lifetime, I was a frizzy-haired dance major experimenting in the joys of lesbian sex. I never did acquire a taste for pussy, but I would've thrown in the towel a lot sooner if it hadn't been for good old Andrea Dworkin. May she R.I.P. (rest in pussy -- face down!)
Lena Cuisina, Bennington Alumna at April 14, 2005 8:46 PM
Given that Dworkin weighed about 400 lbs. at the end - she literally ate herself to death - any pussy underneath her face would likely not be the better for the experience.
And that's without even considering the pustules, lesions, warts, ulcers, and abscesses on her tongue.
Richard Bennett at April 15, 2005 12:02 PM
I've heard that some of the pustules and abscesses on her tongue were so overgrown that she had a few of them pierced too.
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