• February 13, 2012

pulitzers

The Pulitzer Prize is a famous thing invented by some venal tabloid publisher in New York about five-hundred years ago. It would be like if Glenn Beck or TMZ.com created a prize for “Literary Excellence” or whatever, and then in the future people believed this was some actual honor and not just a weird prank. [...]

WASHINGTON POST IS GREATEST NEWSPAPER ALIVE! According to the Pulitzer Prizes, which were just announced this morning. The Post won four, besting the New York Times in their annual inside joke of a contest. For our purposes, the winner of Best Commentary was… freaking Kathleen Parker “for her perceptive, often witty columns on an array [...]