I´ve surfed for over 50 years. He´s right. His book is for a "general audience." Meh... "The Pulitzer Prizes are nothing but elite self-congratulation divorced from real journalism." The New Yorker knows all about that stuff. It´s called style over substance. Form over function. The hard truth takes the back of the bus. "PhD Thad" from Yale doesn´t know his ass from his elbow. Of course he´s a Yalie, like George Bush. A real genius with a real Degree! Academia has betrayed humanity. ... Kooks.