Stein is about on the level of a ill-brought up 2nd grader...maybe.
........Cue 2nd grade teachers to dumb him down even further!
I don't know. I have taught illmannered, lazy and petulant eighth graders, I agree with John. :-)
But you are right that second graders can be brighter, more disciplined and better mannered.
Joel Stein is a spoiled rich kid who found a fool (Isaacson) to print the crap he writes.
It's All About Joel
Time magazine's most irreverent writer has quizzed a rock legend on his golf handicap, eaten fried chicken with a porn star and become Robert Goulet's pen pal. But that's nothing compared to his favorite subject: himself.
AS IT TURNS OUT, Joel Stein is a dork.
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at age 30, has become one of the best-known names in the nation’s oldest, richest and top-selling newsmagazine—is not. “Joel Stein,” as portrayed in the columns, is desperate, awkward, porn-loving and obnoxious;
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He’s a bona fide celebrity, at least in the New York media world. “Joel makes dorkiness cool,” says James Kelly, Time’s current managing editor. “I’ve been at various events with him where I feel like I’m with a rock star. I mean, people really want to seek out and meet Joel Stein.
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The real Joel Stein also has chatted with Isaacson about possible appearances on CNN.
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Stein left Stanford with a bachelor’s, a master’s and an armload of Stanford Daily columns.
When Stein graduated, he hoped to write for either television or magazines. He had no experience with the former and very little with the latter. Somehow he got himself a job writing for Martha Stewart’s then-forthcoming television show, a job for which, Stein acknowledges, “I was in no way qualified.”
But what Kelly calls Stein’s “obviously very funny prose”—“He makes me laugh out loud,” Isaacson says—convinced the editors to begin alternating him with Trillin, who had been writing the humor column. “So we, uh, we created the monster,” Kelly says with a laugh.
his mother, Roz Burd-Leszczuk, about whom he’s written less than kindly