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The Triumph of Trivia

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Maybe he was a good restaurant critic — although there’s considerable debate on that point* — but on politics, Bruni was awful. It’s hard to know what the Times was thinking, except that they wanted to make sure not to hire a woman who has any more interest in writing about substantive issues than Bruni…

*The one ray of hope is that a few of his classic pans — especially Harry Cipriani and Ago —  display not only a gifted writer but a specific talent for perceiving and dismantling empty bullshit from the priveleged in an entertaining way. If he can apply that to stuff like, say, the Ryan plan we’d have something. But given his distaste for policy details, this seems unlikely…

…UPDATE: This is...not encouraging. Really, one MoDo is too many.

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