Blog wars: Kampf vs Kamm. posted by Richard Seymour

Lachrymal troglodytes.
My recent article on Oxfam's disgracefully anti-American campaign on 'fair trade coffee' provoked the following unsolicited & terse response from their press office:

Dear Mr Kampf,

We have so far been unable to deal with your many requests for information as we have been inundated with queries from campaigners and media organisations. Let me take this opportunity to assure you that there was no question of us temporising, or seeking to 'cover' our 'flaccid fundaments' as you put it (and in the future we would prefer any correspondence to adhere to minimal standards of politeness)...