If the end of the world were to depend 

on the completion of Bob Somerby's final 

line-by-line refutation of the latest article 

from the New York Times, we would be 

stuck here for the duration. But, thankfully,

 it doesn't and we aren't.

Daily Howler Gets Graphic



Bob Somerby Experiencing Nine Degrees of Separation

When God created Bob Somerby, He threw
away the mold. (Not the spores, mind you,
just the mold.) The contrarian's contrarian,
Somerby was, once upon a time, the Harvard
roommate of both Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones.
Whereas they went on to fame and fortune, Bob
had to settle for being an elementary school
teacher, stand-up comic, blogger, and the
prime example cited by lexicographers
for the definitions of 'Crank', 'Eccentric',
and 'Nitpicking No-See-Um'.