Write Your Own Bob Herbert Column
Today's column by beat-the-drum-slowly-and-repetitively Times columnist Bob Herbert has this ominous title: "How Scary Is This?"
(You know the drill by now: I'd link to it, but, blah-blah-blah, TimesSelect.)
Here's how the column is described online: "If nothing is done about the current state of affairs and the incompetence of the government, things are going to get much worse."
I think that Bob Herbert, in a burst of delightfully self-deprecatory self-parody, must have written that sentence himself. Because, after all, it's pretty much the theme of every Bob Herbert column. Or does some web editor just keep around that dummy copy to publish whenever it's Bob Herbert's time to appear in the paper?
I challenge readers to come up with their own Bob Herbert ledes....
