For pointing out Fareed Zakaria as a disgrace and a crummy writer.
Why? I saw "The Daily Show" last night and Zakaria was the guest. What a pompous ideological twerp. He plays a straight journalist in Newsweek's pages but has no fear of saying "I was for the war!" to Jon Stewart as if it doesn't taint his profession.
Look, obviously I have political convictions that say the military action in Iraq is bogus, but I'm not covering it. And trust me, if there was any chance that I developed any ideological conviction about what's going down on my beat I would keep it under wraps.
What you write isn't about you; unless you get a blog. That's a whole 'nother story!
I'm so tired of navel-gazing. I see so many papers and magazines and TV new shows where all anyone cares about is what they're thinking; what the zeitgeist means to the messenger instead of the community. Everybody's doing it. Except me; I am capable of holding two different and opposing views in my hand and resisting identifying with either of them.
Speaking of identifying, and this is weird, I've been taking the Harvard Implicit project tests (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) and I have so far learned that I do not prefer Mother Theresa or Princess Di (which was no surprise) but that I identify strongly with carbohydrates over protein.
I do eat cereal for two meals a day and tend to be pretty veg the rest of the time; I didn't think it was part of my self-conception.
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