Nah, man, bedbug sees my boy Ross here and thinks: challenge accepted.
Look for tomorrow’s Stephens column, “Why Voting For Trump Is The Only Honorable Way Forward”
Why would you help him brainstorm AND write the headline free of charge! Please at least sue for some compensation from his future huge bestseller of this title.
I’ve been calling Ross, Ross Douchebag from the very first article of his I read. Douche did an interview on the Bulwark & is as unaware & oblivious as can be, saying stupid crap like abortion bans saves the lives of people. Yup, a bag of cells that has 1in4 chance of not coming to term is a person.
I'm thinking about Abraham negotiating with God not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah:
"If I can find you five righteous writers, Lord, will you spare this newspaper?"
"Sure, whatever."
Well you can't say this but I will say that Ross Douthat is one of the stupidest people I have ever seen. Like, an absolute gets kicked out of the bar for being annoying fucktard.
FWIW, my solution is to not read the op-ed page and horse-race coverage and enjoy the paper's generally excellent science, sports, arts, and international and regional news reporting. I get the annoyance at Douthat, but don't want to be deprived of, e.g, Carl Zimmer, Amy Harmon, and Dwight Garner.
"Don't let the bad spoil the good!" I say, with unnecessary heartiness.
Sheesh, some of that op-ed page stuff can sure be irritating. But then just the other day they had a couple reported pieces about what's going on w/ Oakland's mayor that I thought were really good and I had seen nowhere else.
Me, too — lifetime subscriber. Finally had to stop giving them money a couple of months ago. Too many disgusting headlines. Now I access it once or twice a week through my public library web site, to read the good stuff like Jamelle Bouie.
Many former L.A. Times colleagues are at the NYT now. But the paper is at a low point. The classical music coverage isn't a shadow of what it used to be. The movie reviews (often by former LATers) aren't what they were. The lousy headlines and abandonment of copy editing are the most annoying.
Here in California, papers have absurdly early deadlines because of tough competition for press time, esp. now that the LAT is printed in the Inland Empire and trucked to L.A. (The LAT was printing the NYT & WSJ until it lost the Olympic plant to development). And yeah, I'm a print guy. Still.
