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I’m generally a big fan of New York Times columnist Joe Nocera. But I’m afraid he went seriously off the rails with his Tuesday column on Twitter.
In the piece, he explained why, despite the entreaties of his daughter, Kate, who covers Congress for BuzzFeed, he was not going to join the ranks of the nation’s tweeters.
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