Felix Salmon's Ben Stein obsession becomes a regular feature (and hooray for that)

After getting lured last week into critiquing the collection of half-informed non sequiturs that is Ben Stein's New York Times column (in the comments to a post on Danish killer slugs, of course), I was thrilled to see that I will never have to waste my time on such matters again because Felix Salmon is now promising a "weekly Ben Stein watch."

From the first installment:

[L]et me rewind, to the very first sentence of Stein's column:

"Henry Blodget should have started out as a writer."

I might point Stein to the second sentence of Blodget's wikipedia page:

"Blodget received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and began his career as a freelance journalist and was a proofreader for Harper's Magazine."

Sigh. ....