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Joe MacLeod, America's best newspaper columnist, takes

posted by Choire Sicha   Jan 16, 2008

Joe MacLeod, America's best newspaper columnist, takes the art of phoning-it-in to dizzying new heights in today's Baltimore City Paper:

Hey! It's time to run a whole year of my every-other-weekly "column" through the "AutoSummarize" tool on Microsoft Word. This year it's 20,684 words, boiled down to 4 percent of original size. Fun!