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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh. I used to really enjoy his columns, about 20 years ago.

I also used to tune in to his weekly chats online.

He got progressively less funny, But it may have been a maturing a little bit and me also recognizing that he’s just a skeevy old man.

I like the calm about Joshua Bell playing the violin in the metro.  But again, that’s an old column.

Basically, it was time. Heck, it’s probably way past time.

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Third! Man, I used to be a HUGE fan of his.  Loved his chats, loved the Post Hunt, loved his vibe with Dave Barry, loved his take on the existentialism of humor.

By it's all gone downhill, and Padma Lakshmi nailed the issue: "My issue is not his performative contrarianism (though it is tedious) or that the Indian cuisines he has tasted did not please him — but that his writing, besides being racist and lazy, is simply not funny."

That "performative contrarianism (though it is tedious)" is simply genius.  Old white man performative contrarianism = tedious and unfunny.
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I feel the same way about Petula Dvorak...she picks the easiest things to be outrages about...performance outrage.[/quote]

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