Okay, no matter how you feel about Simon Rich, there is no getting around the fact that this is FUNNY. Go forth and chuckle.

Gawker's Richard Lawson wrote today about being against being oh-so-outraged by nepotism, triggered by the longstanding freefloating ire among some folks regarding Simon Rich. (Unfamiliar? Simon Rich was born in 1984, to Times columnist Frank Rich, went to Dalton, was Harvard '07, edited the Lampoon, is published in the New Yorker, writes for "Saturday Night Live," is cute and shaggy and just sold the rights to his first novel (and his third book!) to director Jason Reitman. Sure! It's like a recipe for resentment!) Lawson concludes: "It's not that they got the wonderful opportunity, the secret passage through the back door. It's that we didn't. And that just makes [...]