Is There a Columnist at the Wall Street Journal? Not if You Need Brains.

Joe Epstein should think about shutting up, he feels pathetic, even comic.

Dear op-ed columnist — Mr Epstein — Joe — boyo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might think twice before being condescending to people? Your op-ed sounds and feels arrogant, not to say a touch pathetic. Your degree is, I believe, a B.A. in absentia, earned at the University of Chicago, through a final examination you took on a pool table somewhere far from your alma mater. A wise man once said that no one should write an op-ed column unless they have something valuable to say. Think about it, Broseph, and forthwith learn to shut the f*** up.

I hear you taught at Northwestern University for 30 years without a doctorate or any advanced degree. You have an honorary doctorate, the president of the school that awarded it to you was fired the year after you received it, we can all assume for allowing your honorary doctorate. You claim that during your years as a university teacher you were sometimes addressed as “Dr Epstein.” On such occasions, you did not take the high road and refuse the honorific. You thought about quips and took the flattery because it caressed your homophobic ego.