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That's called a typo that didn't get checked against deadline. Writers have them all the time. There's even a rule about it The Tillman (for my friend Barrett Tillman) Rule: "no matter how many times a manuscript is copyedited by different people, the worst typo will only be discovered the week of release."

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I actually see a lot of typos in your columns, but they mostly don't interfere with understanding what you're saying.

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According the web, Chicago to Boston is 984 miles. Please keep your facts straight

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And that is slightly less than 1000 miles.

Forgive me for being on the spectrum. If there are typos, spelling mistakes, or other such in published books I'm reading, they jump out at me.

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me too, and I consider myself neurodiverse as well and always have. my shtick is to NEVER let a typo or obvious grammatical error (assuming I can find them) into even my shortest post. nobody's perfect in these matters, but I feel compelled to self-police, often to a fault.

but it's human nature to fuck up, so....

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Same with me.

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As I read the article in context, I skipped right over the typos et al. Typically for me, minor editing errors that have little to do with the actual message are absorbed by the overall

Someone once said, тАЬFollow the MoneyтАЭ. I thought it was good advice

But, carry on.

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Amen, тАЬAha, I found a mistake, the entire content is now under extreme suspicion тАЬ

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Trust me, there's always a reviewer at Amazon who will do just that.

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the Amazon "reviewers" I HATE are those dumb bastards who'' give a book a one-star rating because the book arrived late, or wasn't in the shape advertised. it drags down the average rating for the book and tells absolutely nothing of any value for everybody. I love going after those schmucks...

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Please go over to the Thomas McKelvey Cleaver page at Amazon and feel free to roam freely through the reviews, and whack the morons. I'll even give you a signed copy of your choice of the books on offer.

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My favorite way of looking at this is to listen to people quoting Christ out of context in conservative retribution and rebuke, when the context of the Gospel was Love, Peace, and faith that тАЬpeopleтАЭ would hold up their fellow man in service to the тАЬlessorтАЭ of these, in charity of spirit

Quite the Liberal Socialist

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