🦋 Op-ed
I read the NY Times op-ed features most every day; but the columnists, hardly at all. This is different from how it used to be; maybe 5 or 10 years ago, I would hardly ever miss a day of op-ed columns. There is a certain chatty style the columnists use that has gotten more and more annoying over the years. This by way of saying, today I read a chatty op-ed column that was well done, and I found it hilarious. Not much meaning to be taken away but a refreshing read. It's Gail Collins' piece from today's paper, "Digging ourselves a black hole." I remember laughing at Art Buchwald's columns when I was a kid, before I started finding his humor annoying; I was laughing at this in almost exactly the same way.
 (I wonder whether Pamuk's depiction of Turkish newspaper columns in The Black Book has much relationship to reality. The style seemed way more interesting than that of American newspaper columns; but OTOH this could just mean "Pamuk is a more interesting stylist than most American columnists
" which goes pretty much without saying.)
posted morning of Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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