Bringing UP the Rear -- Neil Lipschutz, Managing Editor, Dow Jones Newswire

I used to read the Wall Street Journal all the time, maybe even every day for a few years, back in the days when Yuppies were king, BMWs reigned supreme, and I was still stupid enough to pay $300 a year to carry around a grey piece of plastic from America Express that I idiotically referred to as being "platinum."

These past three years, well... not so much. It's not just because a gaggle of insensitive and insufferable cheerleaders for the banks write the newspaper, although that certainly is a big part of it. It's mostly because the paper's views are entirely predictable, and unreservedly smug... no they're smug2. We're not even having a recession in the Wall Street Journal, its positively surreal.