In August, Cintra Wilson wrote a Critical Shopper column for the New York Times. The subject was JC Penney's Manhattan store. There was a stir. While recently in New York, I dropped by the JC Penney in question with a copy of her column to do a big, fat fact-check. READ MORE

Buddhist shopping specialist (she is sort of like the Muslim bacon expert) Cintra Wilson is back on the hoof today, with a new Times Critical Shopper column. After a light stupid spanking from the criminally milquetoast Times public editor Clark Hoyt on Sunday-he doesn't understand the difference between sarcasm, indignation, irony and description, nor does he have any idea what the paper's goals are, though he reveals that neither does Times exec editor Bill Keller, really, another episode that exhibits how Keller is out of touch with much of the day-to-day operations of the paper-over her column on how J.C. Penney is overtly in favor of enormous people, she is back and heaping praise on celebrity homosexual potter Jonathan Adler. Oh Jonathan Adler. His work-product I find kitschy and repellent and irrelevant; Cintra finds it kitschy and delightful and purchasable. Outrageous! Why does Cintra Wilson find emaciated and expensive homosexual housegoods so alluring? Please go crucify her on her blog. And when is Clark Hoyt's term up? He is boring me to death, which is the biggest crime of all. Let's go to his blog and call him a slut.