Sorry In Advance

I'm sure that Mark Hanin is a perfect sweetheart, but there's nothing but masturbatory amour-propre behind his decision to contribute this to the YDN op-ed page. How bad is it? More facile than a high school social studies paper, and far less well researched and written. Or maybe he just turned his notes from FORMAC into complete sentences. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't op-ed pieces supposed to argue for something? No? Just checking.