Just yesterday, in a review of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink on Salon, Farhad Manjoo wondered if "there any contemporary American writer more agreeable than Malcolm Gladwell?"

Ask, and ye shall receive, apparently. From the great white north comes Marc Weisblott to stick a pin in the parade balloon that is Blink's hype. In a review-cum-psycho-historiography, Weisblott takes down his fellow Canadian:

Nothing about Gladwell s background doesn t smack of amorphousness racially, politically, hair stylistically, he s been all over the place. Yet, while this might be the stuff of every guidance counselor s nightmare, he has hooked into something whereas you have not.


Hey, what did we do?
Before you can say [Salon]
Googling Malcolm Gladwell [Better Living Centre]
Malcolm Gladwell: McLuhan's Hair Apparent