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TIM BLAIR: ?Funny thing about those crosshairs. They ain?t crosshairs. These are crosshairs. The ?

By Glenn Reynolds

TIM BLAIR: “Funny thing about those crosshairs. They ain?t crosshairs. These are crosshairs. The images shown on Palin?s map are crop marks, commonly used in printing.”

Somebody tell Andrew Sullivan so he can climb down from that limb of libelous rhetoric. Actually, I think he’s forgotten how. You’d think that a man who once edited a magazine would know something about typography. But then, the snarling underpants-gnome-theorist of today is a much diminished version of that man.

UPDATE: Quite a few readers with printing experience email that, technically, they’re “register marks,” not “crop marks.” Okay, but if so many InstaPundit readers know this, why doesn’t anyone covering this for the media know it? Oh, right, never mind.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).