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Dan Neil is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the LA Times. His normal beat is the auto page where his virtuoso performances at car review are worth reading whether you care about cars or not.

Now they have given him a weekly column in the Magazine section called 800 Words.

Here, he writes about what he wants. This week, he tackles the book On Bullshit which has been getting a big play in the press. It is a 'scholarly' work by Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt: Prize Bull.

Not only is this a good sample of Dan's writing but it also is one of the better examples of all the reviews that have been written about this book.

I suspect the volume of writing about it is not so much what is in the book as the permission it gives to go legit with the term 'bullshit' in otherwise cloistered publications.

Another thing, it is an opportunity for others to get on the bullshit wagon and bullshit about bullshit.

This writeup is also an opportunity for me to show Dan's picture. Basically, I have been bullshitting you about the quality of his writing which is high. I just wanted a good excuse to put his picture on the blog. He is one sexy guy. Look at those eyes.