In the comments to this post, frogmouth [High Praise!] sums it up nicely:

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Employee: I’m hungry.

Employer: Eat something.

Employee: What do you have?

Employer: Well…there’s coffee in the break room. And some donuts, I think.

Employee: Donuts?!? I can’t eat GLUTEN!!! Is the coffee fair trade?

Employer: Ummmm…I dunno. I think it’s Folgers.

Employee: Well, I can’t have that! What else you got?

Employer: There’s some fruit.

Employee: Is it locally sourced? From family farms? Grown organically using sustainable agricultural methods?

Employer: Ummmm…

Employee: Ugh! You’re no help.

Employer: Want half my ham sandwich?

Employee: I’m Jewish! And vegetarian!

Employer: Well, you should bring food you like, so you won’t go hungry.

Employee: You’re denying my access to food! You’re trying to kill me by starving me and working me to death!

Since Adam Bellow wrote his article in the National Review about conservative fiction and the culture war, he’s gotten quite a bit of pushback from the the left (here, here, and here). There is quite a bit the left finds threatening about this, as they like to see themselves as the ones with new and revolutionary ideas, but the “conservative” label almost fits them more these days as they’re all stuck on stale, old ideas, and it’s the right that threatens to bring something new.

Anyway, I wonder what the reaction will be when Liberty Island publishes its first novel, Superego, by me, Frank J. Fleming. Hopefully everyone right and left will love it. You’d have to be a horrible person not to. And you can still preorder it by giving to the Liberty Island PubSlush campaign. Just ten days left to get the rewards.

Also, I do have another humor book coming out in November, Punch Your Inner Hippie, so save your pennies for all my books. I’m a book writer now, I guess.