Brite work

Dana Milbank is to journalism what Joe Biden is to confirmation hearings. His report on the Alito confirmation hearing sounds like he slept through it. He should have given the by-line to the one who really did the work on the piece, "Adrian Holovaty, who holds the position of boy genius/computer wiz at Washingtonpost.com," and who did the word count on the transcript. Milbank's tone suggests that he sees himself as the new Dave Barry, but he doesn't have the chops.

The notes at the top of the article brand this as analysis is like calling a thesaurus a novel.