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Words of wisdom from Chuck Klosterman’s collection, Eating the Dinosaur:

But there’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone. And for most of my life, I have tried to avoid this. In fact, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time searching for the underrated value in ostensibly stupid things.

Wow. He just condemned 90 percent of what can be read on blogs, including this one. I’d like to think that I can rise to his challenge. First step, I’ve got to stop reading stupid things. Wish me luck: I write about Jews and Israel.