Joel Stein Compares Self To Tom Hanks, Phillip Roth, Doesn't Want Readers To E-Mail Him

We’ll just let columnist Joel Stein — he of Time magazine, SecondLife and VH1’s I Love The Whatever fame — explain himself:

DON’T E-MAIL me.

That address on the bottom of this column? That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with it. Sending an e-mail to that address is about as useful as sending your study group report about Iraq to the president.

Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you.

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