Lost Garden's "A Blunt Critique of Game Criticism"

I stumbled on this post, "A Blunt Critique of Game Criticism" by Daniel Cook, through a retweet on Twitter. It's written on his "Lost Garden" blog. Needless to say it elicited a broad spectrum of reactions in me. I'm guessing that I would be considered one of the "partial game illiterates" who write "increasingly wordy missives" at the encouragement of "various university departments". So, let's analyze this...