It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

PILING ON THE DEAD. I certainly have not agreed with everything that Edward Said has written or spoken. I think that Orientalism, despite its flaws, was/is an eye-opening and important work. But whatever one may think about the late Professor and his work, some rather scathing denunciations (here and here for example) of a man barely passed from this world seem in extremely poor taste at best.