One of my regular correspondents writes: :
I’m interested in seeing w’happens, here.
Apparently what happens is the aggrieved party gets to write his own retraction/correction and take a cheap shot at my ability to read tables. So my friends tell me: I’m not going to read it, based on their advice. I called the OpEd page editor to let her know exactly what kind of personality she is amplifying through her paper’s reach, ie a guy who calls up my house 5 times, in hopes of my going out and hand-correcting the day’s press run of papers, perhaps.
Talked to a couple of people who have had the misfortune of interacting with this fellow, and from their accounts he is one of those predicable pundits who can be relied upon to spout a given opinion, with a leavening of arrogance. One of my informants, after a moment’s reflection, summed him up as “a lonely man.” Tells me all I need to know, I think.