Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:01 AM by Gene

Mr. Mark surely thinks himself one of the shrewdest, one of the HIGH-IQest men in the NEWS BIZ. I see him editing the cover story of BLUNDER so that it has three or four ripe paragraphs scattered through a 500,000-word article to fool the RUBES. He pays special attention to the LAST PARAGRAPH, realizing that most of his subscribers (that is, of those who don't use the magazine as coffee-table decoration) will read just that paragraph to get the gist of the piece. SO:

We are simply beating ourselves black and blue. So let's take a breather. Throw out the schedules, turn off the cell phone, cancel the tutors (fire the OT!). Let's spend some real quality time with our families, just talking, hanging out, not doing anything for once. And let ourselves be.

We remember too well how Mr. Mark made the PC-suck-up-to-St.-Warren case that dads should be mommies, so we'll presume ANYTHING and EVERYTHING are in between the FIRST PARAGRAPH and the LAST. We've come to quite a place when we instinctively mistrust ANY news hack just because he IS one, but as the tragic tale of EASON tells us, there are strange and tyrannical thoughts floating through NEWS HACKS' HEADS.