I saw this via my friends list recently, and I thought "Awesome. Stick it to her, OSC!"

And then I started to see the responses to it, and the hi-larity which can only be found on the intarwebs ensued, because, "Oh Noes! You cannot mock or profane teh sacredn'holy Mother of Potter, the JKR herself!"

Holy Christ, people, she wrote some well-loved books, made a sick amount of money off of you doing so, and was criticized thereafter for being a hypocritical horse's bum. It is not like anyone is nailing Jesus to the cross.

But to hear Potter-fans react, you'd think so. The on-rushing tide of furious offense cometh!

JKR can do no wrong, apparently, and anyone who says otherwise is jealous, stupid, insane, or some combination of the above.

The Second Coming arrived, and pissed showers of gold down upon the heads of her adoring ones, and when someone said, "Hey, you know, this is piss!" they crucified him. Never mind that it really was piss.

Of course, you'd also wonder how most Potter-fans managed to read her work, given that responses to this come-uppance from OSC indicates the majority of them suffer from a serious deficiency in reading comprehension, to such an extent it seems unlikely they were actually able to follow the plot of the Potter books (maybe they just liked the way they smelled?). I've a feeling they wouldn't know satire if they looked it up in the dictionary.

Here's just one gem: "I've read each of the Harry Potter books more than once, and I didn't catch any similarity between Harry and Ender...I really enjoyed the Ender's Game book, but now it feels sullied after reading the diatribe."

I mean, really? You realize OSC is not actually claiming JKR stole his work, he's making a point that if you're going to sue someone you'd better make sure it isn't over a frivolous comparison. You realize that, right?

No, no, not the JKR fans.

At least not the ones who read the whole article before leaping to her defense, and nevermind the ones that claimed (faces full of shame) later that they hadn't really read the article before leaping to the emotional defense of their Lady Saviour and equally emotional attacks on OSC.

Hey, genocide in Darfur? You kids heard of it? Wizards and rich, white, petulant authors is more important than real people? Because, seriously, look at the number of posts the site was flooded with on that issue compared to any other issue you'd care to read about ever...

Of course, OSC is a stinking right-wing hack who calls himself a Democrat but praises Bush, the Iraq War, and Fox News, and thinks separate-but-equal is a good idea when it comes to them there gays ('cause we all know it worked so well with African Americans), so he's as full of shit as anyone else...well, more so being on the right.

Psst! You kids know yesterday was May Day, right?

What's May Day? You don't know?

Remembering the fight.

Why aren't you told that in school? And why was May Day declared Law Day and Loyalty Day?

Well, we wouldn't want workers getting uppity with ideas in their heads, would we?

Know your history!