Ooh, that stings
It seems that the ideas put forth in Glenn Reynolds' book An Army of Davids have stung some in big government, which in my mind is a good thing. Money quote:
Reader Bill O'Neill found something else to object to:
Even more characteristic of government bureaucrats than the (now corrected) error in your university is the following sentence from the review you linked:
"I was intrigued by the notion of who might want to beat big government -- usually only tax cheats and other criminals are interested in that kind of racket."
Do you think this pompous bozo believes he works for us, the taxpayers?
Yes, quite a few people found that sentence both revealing and objectionable. (Though I should note that Govt. Executive is published for government employees, but not by government employees). But Shoop did send me a non-pompous email on the error: "Jeez, that was a dumb mistake. My apologies. I’ll correct it."
Quick correction is characteristic of the blogosphere and the Army of Davids, so maybe there's hope for him yet.
But never think they don't hate it when we pay attention to them.