Hateful Cranks, CanCon Edition
By Most of you probably haven’t heard of Margaret Wente, who I think Canadian journalism received in exchange for Charles Krauthammer and a hack to be named later. Anyway, I’m afraid it would take someone with much greater wisdom than I to determine which of these columns is more revolting: “there are too many transgender kids nowadays, please eliminate as many as possible, I am not a crackpot” or “Philip Seymour Hoffman is an asshole who had it coming.” And wait, it gets better — she’s being paid to write these atrocious columns despite being uncovered as a serial plagiarist, so she’s sort of a cross between Jonah Goldberg and Jonah Lehrer.
How Fred Hiatt let her get away, I’ll never know…