Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation
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On Pamela Paul, and similar.
Pamela Paul. (Photo: Getty) As soon as the sun crept back out after the eclipse yesterday, I thought to myself, “This much-hyped natural occurrence is a gift that will offer a day’s reprieve for a desperate newspaper columnist who is out of ideas.” And lo, when I looked, there it was: “A Moment of Unity, on Earth as in Space,” by the New York Times’ Pamela Paul. Paul traveled to Buffalo to watch this eclipse, and observed, “Maybe it takes an extraterrestrial event to bring this shredded country together.” Sure. She traveled to Wyoming to watch the eclipse in 2017. “Wearied by the chaotic…
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