text: Ouch!  Sorry, but I find Tabatha's prose painful.  Her attempts to be glib come off as sophomoric.
  
  When an author tries to be funny and fails it's a bit sad IMHO.  And while I don't like to be spoon-fed, I do like an opinion columnist to......have an opinion.  That's, like, kinda the point of writing an essay, isn't it?