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Tax deductables! Pencil necks! Thieves! HIGH SPEED CAR CHASES!
Well, all right, maybe not high speed car chases. So, the background: last year, Neil Gaiman, author of such lovely things as Neverwhere and the Sandman series etc., was contacted to speak at a library in Minnesota for a hefty speaking fee, which was paid for by a fund which (a) stated any leftover money would be lost if not used, and (b) was also not available for books, salaries, or other useful things. Neil Gaiman did so, and subsequently donated the speaking fee to charities.

All's well that ends well, right? Well, except that Matt Dean, the House Majority Leader, decided it was time to let his long-simmering grudge be aired to the world: 'Dean said that Gaiman, "who I hate," was a "pencil-necked little weasel who stole $45,000 from the state of Minnesota."'

Neil is... well, he's not well pleased. Nor is his Twitter.

"Sad & funny. Minnesota Republicans have a "hate" list. Like Nixon did. I'm on it. They also don't like capitalism. http://t.co/FObmLGo"

"It's strange watching a grownup high school bully in power. But the bully vocabulary remains the same. http://t.co/FObmLGo"

"And for those curious how and why I made it onto the hate list, what I wrote at the time on my blog. http://bit.ly/lMxsWQ"

"Any nice, sane Minnesota Republicans reading this, please vote for someone who isn't a bully with a hate list next time."

"You can listen to the Stillwater speech that all the Pencil-neck fuss is about at http://bit.ly/k3lA1B (You need to go down to point 2.)"

He also happened to link to Dean's blog, which proceeded to crash. Whoops.

So you'd think that Dean would realize his mistake and apologize, right? Well... sort of. Why?

His mommy made him do it.

The universe collectively facepalms.

(Bonus funny from the comments, courtesy from someone called Lucas: "Do weasel thieves steal just weasels? Or do they also steal ferrets, otters, and wolverines? In the case of the latter, how do they arrange for transportation?")

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	beejium 2011-05-06 01:58 am UTC (link)
	Completely off-topic, but I had no idea Neil Gaiman lived in the US. strokes chin pensively Also, on the topic of Neil, who else is PSYCHED for his Doctor Who ep next week?? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	stele3 2011-05-06 02:08 am UTC (link)
	Neither did I! I thought all this time that he was in jolly old England. I imagine that he keeps that a little bit quiet--the man does have an, ahem, enthusiastic fan base. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tunxeh 2011-05-06 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Er, actually, far from keeping it quiet, he writes about his whereabouts and personal life quite frequently on his blog and twitter. And today his wife and her fans are spamming nude pictures of her all over twitter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stele3 2011-05-06 02:38 am UTC (link)
	Well yes, I've seen that. And Cabal and his beehives and all those little bits of news. I don't recall him ever specifically saying that he lived in Minnesota, though. I knew he lives someplace snowy, I just thought it was in England. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-05-06 02:50 am UTC (link)
	Well, there isn't really anywhere snowy in England, so that's probably your first clue. ;) Not even in Scotland, and they're the most northern parts of the UK. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stele3 2011-05-06 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Dude, legit, I know nothing of English weather except what The Dark Is Rising taught me, and that included a magical blizzard brought on by forces of Evil. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)