CSotD: Rare sighting

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1. ronnie

   This is a genuinely funny take on both Seuss and Wikileaks. Well-worth the click-through for a read.

2. Sherwood

   I think you’re going overboard with the anti-fruitcake-gag bias. Some of us find them blissful.
   Sincerely,
   Harry Dunham, December 13th

3. Mike Peterson

   Ah, but that’s not an anti-fruitcake gag, except in the sense that Assange might choose not to leak the recipe because “nobody likes fruitcake.”
   Actually, fruitcake is a good metaphor for newspapers, because the makers of fruitcake have made it into a light, spongy confection, hoping to capture the hearts of people who didn’t like the dense, rummy original. And yet people who didn’t like fruitcake before still don’t like fruitcake, while those of us who did like fruitcake don’t like this dumbed-down McFruitcake abomination.
   When I lived in Plattsburgh, I’d go to a very Anglophilic department store in Montreal for a fruitcake fix each year, but now I don’t have that easy access to the Good Stuff. And yet I continue to have easy access to cheap, imitative cartoons about how much everyone hates fruitcake. Of which this particular Bliss was not one.