AD HOMINEM

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Some schlock named Schlack had this printed in the Oshkosh Northworstern:

Renouncing Christianity affirmed by letter

Teno Groppi gives me affirmation for my renouncement of ChristiNanity (sic) as a false religion.

Edward J. Schlack Neenah

Actually, the schlock isn't Schlack. The real schlock is the editor for printing his letter.

Not that I get upset when people say nasty things to me. I have a parade of evolutionists, sodomites, atheists, gun-grabbers, New World Order lackeys, executive editors, and such like, standing in line to hurl their invectives at me. I don't lose a wink of sleep over it.

The problem with this though, was that it was a purely personal attack. Had Mr. Schlack pointed out something in my previous letter that turned him the wrong way, that's fine, even if I disagree with him. But all he did was make a smear at me personally. An editor worthy of working for the National Enquirer should never have let that stand. Such ad hominem has no place in a respectable newspaper (but I guess it might be appropriate in the Northworstern).

Had I send in a short ad hominem attack on one of our local sodomites, like "Michael Kahl isn't half as manly as Michael Jackson", do you think the editor would print it? Do you think he should print it? I don't.

But, it's just another example of how Stew Rieckman will take any cheap opportunity to slam those opposed to queer marriage and give another wink and plug to the sodomites.

Merriam Webster:

schlock: evil, nuisance, literally, blow: of low quality or value

P.S. In an unusual irony, the National Enquirer is threatening to sue me for libel for comparing them to the Oshkosh Northworstern. I offer them my sincerest apologies for that egregious insult.