Imagine all the times journalists either don't look, or they look up the numbers and then write the column anyway.
I hope there are fifty variations of "and yet you keep publishing them anyway" in the replies
i think the only reply he warrants is just endless pictures of his cow tools
Me, a Genius: Has to do a day's research to get my Uncle to admit that Jewish people don't "Have it so easy"
Him, a New York Times columnist: Writes an article about why our paychecks should be smaller to buy more tiny American flags for Veterans
this can only mean his idea was somehow good and the numbers somehow made sense
And that article would have been written with smug, unearned confidence as if he was an expert who had been studying the subject his whole life.
It's great when everyone starts taking potshots at Matty for being a dopey fucker. Even Steve Albini throws a car at his head once in a while.
This probably means that he was going to come up with a good take for once in his entire life but he thought it was wrong and scrapped it