Lots and lots of email has come in from folks, a great deal of it very kind and supportive. But there’s also, as you can imagine, a prodigious amount of hate mail, taunts and the like. You’d think even the most hateful folks might hold out the possibility that I haven’t responded to this or that “brilliant” demolition of my book simply because I haven’t had five minutes to sit at a computer or collect my thoughts. I’m not hiding, just very busy. I will respond to all the criticisms that warrant response when I get a chance. Promise. And to give a sense of what I mean by criticisms that warrant a response and those that don’t, this is my favorite hate mail from yesterday (asterisks mine):

I wish your parents had been put in camps in the 1940′s… AOL you still have AOL ? Do you listen to music on eight tracks ? Watch movies on Betamax ? Does your car have a crank ? f**k you neocon a**hole.

What a one-two combo: It’s a shame your parents weren’t liquidated in the death camps, and your a loser for using AOL. I get lots of AOL insults and I get lots of “too bad Hitler didn’t take care of your line” email, but I think this is the first to combine both.