As long as we're wanging it up today, we may as well mention the recent cockfight between The New Republic's Michael Crowley and famous author Michael Crichton, the novelist who writes all those shockingly believable stories about scary dinosaurs, scary Japanese people, and scary women who will sexually harass you. It seems that back in March, Crowley wrote a cover story about Crichton that irked the Flintstones scenarist; his revenge took the form of a character in his new novel named "Mick Crowley," an underendowed child rapist. Crowley (the real one, not the fictional baby-raper) quotes the following passage from the book, which we're putting after the jump because, well, it's a little disturbing, and not just for being badly written.