Ira Glass is coming to San Diego to give a lecture, so here’s this puff piece in a local paper about how he’s the hippest thing on National Public Radio. According to him. Trying to be ironic about it doesn’t make a hipper-than-thou attitude any less execrable. It would only be a slight exaggeration if I said I never move faster than when I reach to retune the radio when he comes on. And I wrote to my local NPR station to tell them I wasn’t going to contribute to them anymore as long as their fundraisers featured his smug, self-satisfied pitches with their vicious undertones of humiliation to less with-it listeners. The station manager tried to tell me I don’t have a sense of humor (which I found very funny).