CORRECTING THE NEW YORK TIMES’ ABSURD VISION OF THE MODERN MAN.

Related: James Lileks responds:

We seem to have a new genre: humorless humor. I mean, this New York Times piece on the Modern Man and What He Does – it can’t be serious. I think it’s supposed to be that gentle sort of inside humor that produces the general impression of humor, but contains no actual, measureable, discernible humor.

Ace has the best phrase for the Times’ article: “Hatebait” — “hatebait, because it’s written to be mocked, but linked each time it’s mocked.”

Apparently, the modern man in Pinch’s world has no shame — which makes sense, because as Alec Baldwin, the very definition of the modern man boasted about another a few years ago, “Anthony Weiner Is a Modern Human Being.”