Lots of e-mails informing me that James Lileks, not Andrew Stuttaford, is the originator of the quip “I don’t have a god in this fight.” I had praised Andrew for using it in a post yesterday. Well, I Googled it, and the e-mailers are wrong. It is true that Lileks wrote the sentence in 2005 — but then it turns out, Google informs me, that Andrew first used the quip in The Corner on March 25, 2004! I love Lileks like mad, but it looks like a) great minds think alike and b) Stuttaford wrote it before Lileks.
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