Why, oh why do I read Dear Prudence? Her advice is frequently terrible, and when called on it her response is belligerent. This week's Best and Worst of Dear Prudence in 2009 is a case in point. It's not at all a list of best and worst columns; instead it's a list of columns which her readers are stupid for disagreeing with. She does this every year. You'd think by now she would have gotten over knee-jerk defensiveness and would be willing to acknowledge the occasional mistake. But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.
Maybe I need to make a New Year's resolution to stop reading Dear Prudence.* On some level I'm still incredulous that they replaced Margo Howard with this judgmental bore.
*funny aside, throughout this post I have been typoing it as "Dear Produce" and having to correct myself.
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