In the top 10, Skinner asks "What is flummery?"

[Bucky]

Actually he asked what the "Flummery Digest" is that Ann Coulter has been caught plagiarizing. So here's the answer:

flummery: (noun) 1. a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal; a confection whereby oatmeal or wheat bran is steeped in water, the liquid then boiled until it became a jelly.
(noun) 2. (as in "mummery, flummery") meaningless ceremonies and flattery.

Flummery Digest: a hackneyed collection of "offbeat news items" that sole author Michael Sierra put out from 1990 to 2003. Mostly he focused on ridiculing "political correctness" because there just aren't enough people out there denouncing this here new-fangled PC thing.

Flummery Digest is arguably one of the oldest "blogs" on the internet. Sierra lives in Concord, Mass and some time in the past he looked like this:

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. The only person I've ever heard use that word was Nero Wolfe.

[cloudythescribbler]

2. i am pretty sure that Skinner is a SHE

[punpirate]

3. Then her parents must have had...

... a sense of humor naming him "David."

:)

[Bucky]

4. Correction: "naming HER David"

[punpirate]

5. Just enjoying the confusion...

... a little bit. It was intentional. :)

[EFerrari]

8. But everyone knew him as "Nancy".

:)

[punpirate]

9. There's a Rocky Raccoon running...

... DU? Who woulda thunk it? :P

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Skinner, the DU admin, is a male. Skinner, the radio personality, is a

female. The former adopted the moniker from the character on the Simpsons.

[Bossy Monkey]

7. EarlG writes the Top 10 Conservative Idiots nt