"To Be Fair, Which Is Not My Intention...." When he's nasty, Alex Beam is very, very good. Check out his hilarious column on Bernard-Henri Levy in the Boston Globe.

Why is it that the New York Times, for all its clout and access and supposed sophistication, lacks a single writer of this wit? And don't even mention Maureen Dowd; she hasn't been funny since she stopped reporting.

(Which is also another way of asking why the NYT is so damn humorless. Which is another way of asking if anyone reads that egregiously bad "Funny Pages" section in the New York Times Magazine. But I meander.)  ¶ 7:48 AM