I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once referred to fox hunting as "the unspeakable pursuing the inedible". Julian Sanchez savagely dissects the 21st century version: the unbearable tweeting the unremarkable.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.