Almost daily Corner bashing

One still-interesting aspect of Christopher Hitchens' career is that every few months some cretinous old monster former president or head of state will die and he'll write a scathing obituary in his honor. I can even appreciate those essays when they're written at the expense of people I like.

Sadly, there's nothing interesting about Mark Hemingway's career who writes this in the wake of Norman Mailer's passing:

And yet, if following his death if there's still little to no consensus that Mailer was cretinous artistically and personally, there certainly wont be any unvarnished assessment when Updike and Roth shuffle off this mortal coil. Now I'm not saying that Roth and Updike are anywhere near as bad a writers as Mailer could be [sic sic sic], but given the impact they've had on our collective moral consciousness it seems kind of imperative we honestly assess the flawed morality of the Great Male Narcissists as much as their prodigious talent.

Now I may not be--how should one say--anywhere near as good a writers as Hemingway is (are?), but I'm pretty sure this belongs in the enormous "constipated excrement" pile of blog posts that The Corner should be embarrassed to have in its archives.