Rufus Hickok: Okay, let's talk for a second about how calling something a "Rorschach test" is both a hideously overused cliché and a way of avoiding expressing one's own judgement. Then, let's talk about how "in many ways" and "like a" are words a milquetoast uses to further water down a non-statement.

Okay, let's talk for a second about how calling something a "Rorschach test" is both a hideously overused cliché and a way of avoiding expressing one's own judgement. Then, let's talk about how "in many ways" and "like a" are words a milquetoast uses to further water down a non-statement.

Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

And how cosseting your own opinions in this weaselly way is a hallmark of pseudo-intellectual writing.

Only "something like a" even!

One might say, in fact, that, in many ways, my dinner tonight was something like so-called "junk food" from the convenience store.

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