I'm not proud of this, but whenever I'm on line at my local supermarket I read the tabloids. While waiting on line Friday I picked up a copy of the Star and guess what I found underneath?

A copy of the New York Review of Books. I'm like "Whoa, my supermarket sells the NYRB, right next to the Enquirer and the Weekly World News. That makes sense, since some of the leftist academic sh*t in the NYRB is just as fake as the Weekly World News."

Anyway, it occurred to me that the NYRB was just left there as a holiday gift for someone. The register couldn't ring the newspaper up, so that confirmed by hunch. Thus, I got a $4.50 magazine for free. I read it and then gave it to my local library. To be honest, the NYRB isn't a newspaper I would read even if it were given away for free. The New York Review of Books is for academics and urban intellectuals. I'm neither, so I feel like a fake reading it. I spent more time looking at the university press book advertisements (for instance, there's a book out about how a Nazi officer helped the Lubavitcher rebbe escape the Holocaust) than I did reading any of the reviews/editorials/articles.



- posted by jsbennett70 @ 5:25 PM