Although to be true Albom, he has to put less work into any kind of research. I think Keown’s piece was the result of a good half hour of talking to LaRoche. That’s about 29 1/2 minutes more effort than Albom would ever do before hitting the keyboard.

To me, he sounds much more like Mitch Albom — the sing songy cadences mixed with abrupt single word sentences, the stupid rhetorical questions that are mostly designed to evade responsibility for wholeheartedly endorsing a hacknied imagined idea of old fashioned values, all wrapped up in smarmy self congratulatory…