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Editing Update

I'm sure a lot of Pen-Elayne readers don't generally scroll down this page once they've read something to see if I've posted any Updates to previous entries. I tend not to be the kind of blogger who remembers to tell folks, "Scroll down again, look there!" - hey, I've even seen a few bloggers parenthetically mention when they've edited their original posts to fix typos - but it's probably a good idea, every few days or so, to do a search on this page for the word "Update" just so's ya know. In this instance, I was going to update yesterday's post on "Criminal Editing" but figured I might as well put it under this header. :) Over at American Street, Kevin Hayden mentions that Shanna Compton has started a new blog called Rebel Edit for the sole purpose of protesting the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control's decision, and invites readers to "Edit a poem or short piece by a writer from one of these countries [nations under trade embargoes which include Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Cuba] and send to rebel edit at shannacompton dot com. I will post it on this blog, which in effect will become both an act of protest and a petition." Brilliant idea; I hope some of those fired gay Arabic translators join in.