Michael Kinsley imagines other contests like the NYT’s "Win a Trip with Nick Kristof." My favorite:
The Washington Post has chosen, so far, not to subject its columnists to this kind of embarrassment. But how long can it hold out? I’m psyched for "Win a Trip With George Will." Finally admitting his uncanny resemblance to Mr. Peabody, the scholarly time-traveling dog on the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon show, George takes a lucky companion back to the 18th century, where they will explain the original meaning of the Declaration of Independence to its signers.
The others are funny too.
Thanks anyway to Mr. Kinsley for finally clearing up that nagging question in my head! Now I know who it is that George Will reminds me of! Mr. Peabody, of course!!! That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks!
But I kid you not, I was reading H.A. Rey’s book: Elizabite to my son last night and thought to myself that Michael Kinsley looks exactly like Doctor White who captures the carnivorous plant and tries to tame it.