After getting lured last week into critiquing the collection of half-informed non sequiturs that is Ben Stein’s New York Times column (in the comments to a post on Danish killer slugs, of course), I was thrilled to see that I will never have to waste my time on such matters again because Felix Salmon is now promising a “weekly Ben Stein watch.”
From the first installment:
[L]et me rewind, to the very first sentence of Stein’s column:
“Henry Blodget should have started out as a writer.”
I might point Stein to the second sentence of Blodget’s wikipedia page:
“Blodget received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and began his career as a freelance journalist and was a proofreader for Harper’s Magazine.”
Sigh. ….
