SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE WORDS….This isn’t the biggest deal in the world, but I think I’m going to stop linking to New York Times op-eds and columns starting now. Yesterday’s announcement made it clear they no longer want to engage with the hoi polloi, and in any case their op-ed page will be off limits to all of us nonsubscribers in September anyway. So why wait?

It was nice while it lasted, though.

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