I become one of them, an anal reader

The words, vaccine, and Covid 19 do not appear in this article, but war does.

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack, and attack, and attack some more.”—George S. Patton

Years ago, I wrote an article titled, Anal Readers. What prompted the article is a lot of readers making comments like, there needs to be a comma after but. Or it’s not to it’s too. I would reply back, “I’m a rebel writer and your writing laws don’t apply to me. Please report all of my writing errors to our in house English Professor Tina Blue. At this writing site we did have an English Professor and her name was Tina Blue and she was one of my subscribers. If Professor Blue didn’t point out a writing error I made then there was no error, at least in my mind.

Writers make mistakes. Stupid mistakes too. I just corrected a few stupid mistakes I made on a few previous posts. The mistakes didn’t change the meaning of the sentence so it’s harmless. Anal readers may disagree. I read a book a couple of years ago and it was great for the first 297 pages. Then the author started repeating what he already wrote. He also started making numerous grammar errors. It was page after page of repeated information and errors. I thought what the fuck happened here. My guess is he had some known number of pages he either was told he had to reach or that’s what he wanted to reach so he added 50 or so garbage pages.

If I should write a book someday it will be completely proofread by a collitch professor such as Tina Blue. I want it grammatically perfect. No spelling errors.

The reason for this post is because we are at war—war against humanity. It’s ugly, messy, and people are dying in mass. I decided I should read the Department of Defense Law of War Manual. It’s probably required reading in war time right? Clif High is really the one who prompted me to read it. He posted the link on every one of his Vox Populi articles. I’m hungry for another.

It was updated December 2016.

 At the beginning there are footnotes for the updates. A lot of the updates were for basic writing errors. Kind of embarrassing too. Seventh grade errors that a proof-reading General should notice before it get’s published. Maybe they’re too focused on attack, attack and attack some more.

I was shocked. Hire Professor Blue. I got over the above and wasn’t going to become an anal reader myself and get hung up on anything written in the manual until I got to page xxvi. This basic spelling error shot me write out of my fucking chair. A spelling error has never done that to me but considering who wrote the manual they should know how to spell this word.

Nuernberg or Nuremberg? If you write it Nuernberg it gets a red line underneath it. It wants to auto-correct to Nuremberg. So does any search engine. Wouldn’t this one word demand an update?

I sent Clif an email to get his thoughts on it but he never responded.

I’m over it now. Finished. Done. Let’s attack, and attack, and attack some more, and then the hard work of cleaning up the mess they made begins.