In what is perhaps the first Jon Friedman column we've read in its entirety since finding out he files multiple times per week, the Marketwatch scribe today delivers an eighth grade book review of author Alicia Shepard's new book Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Which is about, uh, well you can figure that out. Pleased overall with Shepard's book, he was most pleased by:

Shepard showed great restraint, particularly in writing about Woodward and Bernstein's divorces. Less responsible journalists would've employed the style of a shrill, breathless gossip-monger.

Oh thank god we disavow any attempts to employ the word "journalist" around these parts. We'd hate to appear irresponsible.