Amen to that. xP

I’m not much of a writer but judging by this blog’s layout when viewed on IE, I’m an even worse coder!

Do not underestimate the work needed to get a layout working on IE…

@Orion: I suspect the Oregon Daily Emerald has lost some credibility with this article. Please don’t assume I don’t respect Beavis and Butthead, though, they were the voices of a generation!

@KT: Yeah, I began to SERIOUSLY doubt the guy’s sanity with that. Is it satirising poser students who wear Che t-shirts, perhaps?

@Totoum: yep, never under-estimate the powers of doing your homework!

@Nick: I’m not much of a writer but judging by this blog’s layout when viewed on IE, I’m an even worse coder!

@Peter S: Agreed. Even if his tongue’s in his cheek, it’s still bad comedy writing - he’d still look like a dick if he claimed “nobody got my joke!”

@Owen: I’m not afraid to call him a stupid git either. I’m actually annoyed that he has a bona fide writer’s job while I’ve been doing this in my spare time for nearly two years. I’m even older than he is! It makes you wonder what sort of shitstorm would have arisen if this were a professional publication rather than a student one. Now THAT’s worrying.

I’d like to add that on the very same site, there’s another article that rubbishes Glucklich’s claims. Clearly some people on the ODE itself don’t get the joke either!

Hide crystals in US classrooms and see truancy rates fall! How’s that for a good idea, eh?

Definitely, but only if they’re meth.

Won’t bother bashing the obvious ones, but 700 affected children in a statistic of God knows how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of kids has nothing at all to do with the anime’s moral fibre or whatnot. It was an animation oversight more like.

Also, the problem with trying to establish evidently shitty writing as satire is that satire doesn’t really need to cite anything to make a case out of it, mostly because satire shouldn’t have to. Period. As a writer I resent the whole “give him the benefit of the doubt” thing, we shouldn’t be afraid of calling him a stupid git, really.

Please replace “sarcasm” with “satire” in my previous comment.

Good thing I’m a programmer and not a professional writer.

This article by Glucklich is sarcasm? Poor attempt of it. It definitely can’t be taken seriously, though.

I do know Americans can do sarcasm. Even involving Pokemon…

lol,this guy hasn’t watched any animes as he?

and pokemon started out as a video game (i thought any 20 year old would know that lol) and a pretty damn good one (ranked 70th best game of all time by ign)

Could have been worse though,he didn’t call “code lyoko” anime (i’ve seen it done)

I lol’d.

But in all seriousness, I can’t think that this article was written seriously. The Michael Vick reference, the intentional antagonism, and especially the closing paragraph all scream “Bad satire!”

I mean, the writer doesn’t even try to link his points together or make any kind of logical conclusions. It’s like a Who’s Who list of logical fallacies.

You’re absolutely right, though - regardless of whether this was serious or satire, it should never have gotten past the editor’s desk.