When I blogged on Safire yesterday, I knew I was being lazy by just asking if he had done blogosphere yet and I vaguely thought my inbox might be full of “you lazy idiot” e-mails (somewhat deserved) before I got off Amtrak yesterday. But it took until a few minutes ago to get one (and he was more polite than I might have expected): “As someone who writes for a purported news website,
don’t you think it’s a little bit embarrassing to ask
whether something has been written when you have at
your disposal the tools to determine that question
yourself? I know I’d be embarrassed.”