I wrote a variant of the article that follows for a conference, and as is common for those in my line of work, my submission was rejected. This unfortunate part of the academic lifestyle results in days working on publications that are submitted and then subsequently dismissed by others who might only have basic knowledge of what you are writing about. Sometimes, as was the case with the article below, there are really confusing reasons given for the articles being rejected that don’t really pass the sniff test. In the words of Vonnegut, so it goes.
