Rarely Likable: Self-importance and tasty baked goods

May 19, 2006

Self-importance and tasty baked goods

I should know better by now than to read Ed while I'm eating lunch. I've had stuff come out of my nose before. But today, of all days, I wish it'd been a brownie.

I'm not sure what's funnier...Tanenhaus' utterly humorlessness, or that some of the polled authors voted for themselves. Obviously, I want to know who, and I also want to know: Was it a marketing effort gone awry, or do these authors genuinely believe they are at the absolute top of the United States since 1980 heap?

May 19, 2006 2:47:50 PM

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