While funny, I don't think that's strictly "fair".

In context, the "bloggers" in question must be not the set of all people who blog, but people who blog about cosmetics/beauty/fashion.

(I would not be at all surprised to find a large number of cosmetics/beauty astroturf blogs, but I can't be bothered to look. I ain't gettin' paid to do an expose.)

I do get the humor in your piece, but as someone who follows two distinctly different types of blogs, I must say on this topic, the Times does know that to which they refer. I have two folders in my bookmarks for blogs. One folder has links to Sullivan, Ysglesias, Klein, Drum, McArdle, etc. The other folder contains links to such places as Blogdorf Goodman, Beauty Addict, um, yeah well I'm too embarrassed to admit to more of this type. But, yes, they got it right.

So will you be volunteering your time for the latest in facial massage reviews?

Now, just why did you make me keep all of our beauty jaunts to the 57th Street salons so secret while you were at the UofC?? I've been biting my tongue for years to keep it all hushy-hushy, and now you're just ever so blithely telling the whole world your beauty tips. Disgusting.

I'll tell you and your readers one thing, though. I will never, never ever talk even one word about the little beauty refresher tips that Barack calls me for whenever he manages to be back in Hyde Park for a day.

That man is really running himself haggard. Desperately needs a two-hour stop-over at the 57th Street Salon. Now.

Hilarious. Though if TrishB is correct on accuracy it looks like we need to score this one for the Times over Dan. Still, hilarious.

If you'd just restrict yourself to plain soap and water, you wouldn't get blackheads, pimples, and boils from all that crud in your pores.

Funny that you mention Virginia Postrel. In one of her most memorable pieces (to me, anyway), the gushing enthusiasm for the beauty-industrial complex was very palpable.