Aussie Blogger Tim Blair, with the brilliant James Lileks, has developed the “First Boilerplate Amendment.” He describes it here. As he says, this Amendment is
…for occasions when editors demand things like this be inserted into copy:
Of course, none of this is to suggest that all Muslims/leftists/environmentalists are terrorists/zombies/retarded, and I in no way wish to infer that these killers/cranks/feebs are responsible for global crime/destruction of values/frostbite in North Platte, Nebraska.
Thereafter such a paragraph, according to proposed legislation, would follow our Amendment:
But they are.
Yup.
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