Atlantic: The 50 Worst Columns of the Year

Well, there you go, LTL. Like I said, nothing in the descriptions of those gave me want to read any of them.

 

Amazingly enough, that was not the column I was talking about. The CSI one was her ridiculous pandering at the convention, in August. The yard signs one was her ridiculous pandering on the eve of the election, in November. And that's the last column on the list. Noonan must be so proud to make it with TWO versions of the same column.

http://blogs.wSportsJournalists.com/peggynoonan/2012/11/05/monday-morning/

There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney. And there’s the thing about the yard signs. In Florida a few weeks ago I saw Romney signs, not Obama ones. From Ohio I hear the same. From tony Northwest Washington, D.C., I hear the same.

 

I realize columnists are paid to share their opinions, but I was quite surprised how uninformed and self-centered so many of these (some of the "big names") were. Especially those that don't have other gigs.

"This happened to me the other day, it's a sign of (insert broad rationalization about what is right/wrong with America today)."

GET A BLOG!!!

 

Which poster is this?

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/carpenter/mc-pc-dorney-park-right-to-ban-tattoos-20120529,0,5750831.column

 

Ooh, I know what I'm getting our dog for Christmas.

 

OK, I am a little upset now that you posted a link that I just had to read ...

 

God, that was spectacular.

Bet he's a lot of fun.

 

List any 50 Krugman blatherings and the compilation would be fine...

 

What the fuck? Must have autocorrected "thugs" to "pugs." And no one caught that?

 

This column has gone viral and drawn responses (most good-natured) from the honorees.

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/12/20/no-shortage-of-material-for-the-atlantic-wires-worst-columns-feature/

Says the compiler: "Also, one reader called me out on a glaring omission: Mark Judge in the Daily Caller basically saying black people stole his bike. I regret not including it."

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/the-end-of-my-white-guilt/

Since the time I was an undergrad at Catholic University in the 1980s, most of the crime that has occurred on campus has come from those neighborhoods, which are predominately black. As sure as it took the D.C. cops forever to get to the parking lot to file a report, I knew that the odds were very high that a black person had taken my bike — maybe one of the kids that had been described.

Hmmm ... Mark Judge ... Mark2010 ... think about it ...

 

None from Albom? He could be 1 through 50, if he wrote 50 columns.

 

Maureen Dowd on RGIII didn't make the list? WTF?