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Crossword. sudoku plague
Ron Rosenbaum states: ''Need I suggest that those who spend time doing crossword puzzles (or sudoku)—uselessly filling empty boxes (a metaphor for some emptiness in their lives?)—could be doing something else that involves words and letters? It's called reading.'' He also says: ''What gets me is the dumbing down, the narrowing of the notion ...
Posted to The Spectator by Joan41 on August 22, 2008
Cracking Enigma and Crosswords
Rosenbaum's article is yet another example of that increasingly common form of argument which can be stripped down to ''You like that?!? Dude!'', but apart from being annoying, he's also wrong. During the recruiting for the top-secret project to crack German codes that was housed at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, British ...
Posted to The Spectator by ophymirage on August 21, 2008
Re: Dag, three pages on this?
If Anne Applebaum can take two pages to explain the conflict between Russia and Georgia, I think Ron Rosenbaum can take three to spew vitriol against the Sudoku/Crossword scourge. Even Slate has priorities. Should have developed the Starbucks of Tears a bit more, because I'm still cracking up about that.
Posted to The Spectator by feralcats on August 20, 2008