Pancake Man Takes a Swing...and Slips in A Puddle of Syrup

Response to Opinion article titled,
"Terrorists Attack California Post Office"
Published in the September 2006 issue of Waubonsee Insight.

It's funny enough when someone writes something crazy and deranged and sends it in to the paper as a Letter to the Editor. But then, the farther removed from that medium you get, the funnier it gets. A MySpace post ranting about me was pretty much the most entertaining thing I had found, until a colleague forwarded me the link of two poor people who were attacking me on, of all things, a blog about pancakes.

Thus, the Pancake Man was born. Enjoy as much as I did.

It's just hard to wade through the painful editorial rhetoric found in the Waubonsee Community College Insight, penned primarily by one faithful student of the Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage school of balanced, empathetic journalism, who was somehow appointed to the position of editor in chief. So finding the restaurant review means sifting through not just page-length tirades on illegal immigrants and liberals, but also self-congratulatory reminders of how his controversial "freedom fries" article really got everyone talking last fall. Thankfully, the restaurant review was left to a different student, but her description of it still seemed a bit embellished.

Ironically, the review of the restaurant was BEFORE the Opinion section, so his comment about having to "wade through" my article is so stupid it makes the entire piece in and of itself. The rest is just icing on the cake of ignorance.

Stately Actions by a President

Response to Opinion article titled,
"?Quiere papas fritas tambien? No Thanks!!!"
Published in the October issue of Waubonsee Insight.

The BEST part about these excerpts, which are taken from a much longer (but equally stupid) letter to the editor, is that the writer is the President of the Waubonsee Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the "International Honor Society of the Two Year College." No further comment needed.

Tammy Caltagirone (email removed) wrote:
Let’s examine of a couple of recent articles. I would like to begin with Ian Essling’s article published last fall entitled “Quiere papas fritas tambien?”

Hate to tell you, but writing a response a year after it was published does not allow you to call the article "recent."

Tammy Caltagirone (email removed) wrote:
Although Mr. Essling isn’t alone in his arrogance and intolerance of immigrants and foreign language, he has sown seeds of hate and distrust creating a flagrant “us/we” versus “them” attitude at Insight.

I've "sown seeds of hate?" That's a new one! Thank you, Tammy, for being original and using a slur that no one has ever used on me before!

Full text of letter