I DIDN'T HAVE TIME to write about the New York Times' piece on hunger in Spain and how people were dumpster-dumping for garbage to eat (I was going to write "disappointing piece" but, alas, it's no surprise that the Grey Lady's reporting is, to put it mildly, improvable). Plus, people could say that I had some sort of horse in the race and couldn't be objective.

Well, a Barcelona-based American writer, Mark Herman, has responded. One-sentence summary: "What the f*ck are you talking about, NYT?" (I paraphrase).