John Podhoretz dings me for lacking a sense of irony and notes that my Bar Mitzvah was a week ago. That's weird, my Bar Mitzvah was much longer--oh! John is calling me young! Oh man. That one almost slipped by me. But yeah, he's suggesting I'm not very old, right? At least, I think that's the joke. I'm beset by insecurity, though. To quote another victim of Podhoretz's razor sharp ripostes, "have I grasped the full subtlety of Podhoretz's rapier wit, with all its complexities and layers of symbolism?" Could there be anything I'm missing? Does he also think my mama is so fat, maybe?
As for the piece at hand, I don't think J-Pod was kidding in any way that changed the post's intent or meaning. But look, there's an easy way to make sure such misunderstandings don't happen again. If J-Pod wants us to interpret his posts as jokes, he could, in the future, make them funny.
