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Twice this week, Matt Blackett of Spacing has used the hip new cyberbullying medium of Twitter to accuse me of lying or ignoring “facts.”

For a panicked manchild with a hypersensitivity to “slander” (without actually knowing what it is), one would have expected a bit more caution in his allegations. What I don’t expect him to do is back them up, because he can’t.

Handbags at dawn, Blackett.

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