So in today's Times Janet Maslin tears into Malcolm Gladwell's new greatest hits book collection. It is brutal, because she is endlessly making fun of his sentences and his paragraphs: "He liked to begin by framing some kind of broad question. Then he liked to change subjects abruptly. Let's suddenly talk about Ben Fountain and Jonathan Safran Foer." Ha ha, that is funny. For some reason though, this makes me uncomfortable! And when I am uncomfortable with conflict, I ask myself: whose side am I on? After some internal investigation, I realized: I'm not on either of their sides! Why should I be? What horse do I have in that race? I look around, and I see no horse present. Also what would the horses be racing towards? For what? Also here is Malcolm Gladwell in a new interview: "Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school." As they say in the opinion polls: STRONGLY AGREE.