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Rogues of
the Month
We have become intolerably tired of scolding the rogues
and dunces of this village
to no purpose. The more shrilly we clamor against them
the more irreclaimable
they become. It has just dawned upon us in the light of
a revelation, that
mere verbal satire is a delusion and a cheat—that the
battles of intellect are waged with stuffed
clubs—that the pen is not only less mighty than the
sword, but is even
inferior to a well-wielded hand-saw...
—Ambrose
Bierce
P. Maudit, the editor's cartoonist
sobriquet, was auto-didactically born in 1998 to illustrate The
American Dissident, eventually became a paid feature on another website, and was almost
hired by the academic publication Adjunct Advocate (see
Literary Corruption). Whenever
possible, the editor informs the individuals criticized
in his satirical cartoons to hopefully foment,
what
academic/literary established-order cronies sadly detest
most: free speech and vigorous debate. When real
persons are depicted, the dialogue in P. Maudit's
cartoons is not fabricated but obtained via real
conversations, email correspondence, or from magazines and books.
(Click on
the image to make it larger.)
For more recent rogues of the month:
http://wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com
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August 2008—NEA Panelists of the Clone
Variety W. Ralph Eubanks,
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Melissa
Hammerle,
Paul Reyes,
Charles Frederic
"Rick" Stone III (layperson),
Kevin Walzer, Margo
Hammond |
June 2008—Casey Hill, editor of NewPages.com.
Hill refuses to list The American Dissident on his website,
arguing that he acts as a "good taste" filter, not censor. Thus, I
devised a
literary survey, disseminated it,
then had it published in Counterpoise, whose editor contacted
Hill for a response:
"NewPages.com refuses to dignify the opinions of G. Tod
Slone." Nothing like vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy!
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February 2008—John Amen, Editor,
Pedestal Magazine. For more on John's odd vision of democracy,
see also www.theamericandissident.org/BookReviews-BestAmericanPoetry2007.htm |
August 2007—Gary Snyder, Academy of American
Poets Chancellor |
July 2007—Prof. Cary Nelson,
Pres. of Amer. Assoc. Univ. Profs. actually put this one up on his
website. Could he not comprehend it? |
April 2007—English Professor William
Pannapacker, Hope College (WI) |
March 2007—English Professor
William Ryan, Editor of Turnrow
(University of Louisiana at Monroe) |
January 2007—All Things Not Considered: Andrei Codrescu and Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
December 2006—Dan Latimer and
Virginia Kouidis, Southern Humanities
Review |
August 2006—Kevin Larimer, Senior Editor,
Poets & Writers magazine |
July 2006—Guggenheim Fellow,
Cole Swensen, and JonThompson |
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