For any newspaper editors in chief out there who are considering running a self-penned, over-the-top tribute to a personal friend and convicted felon, we've got a helpful piece of unsolicited advice for you: don't do it.

Because if you do write an "embarrassingly overwritten homage," not only will it undermine any preexisting credibility you may have (which, in the case of the New York Sun, admittedly isn't much) but it will open you up to public ridicule in the form of a scathing rebuttal from the folks over at the Columbia Journalism Review.

Which is exactly what they did to Sun founder/EIC Seth Lipsky, in the wake of his "absurd ode to his friend and funder," Conrad Black.

And while we invariably those instances wherein some offending journalist gets called out for questionable ethical behavior, it's particularly rewarding when said reprimand is written with stern and unrelenting wit. And CJR does just that, getting to the crux of the matter with appropriately condescending humor ("it does seem unseemly for the editor of a paper, no matter how lightly read…to grant himself editorial space to go on about how awesome his deep-pocketed buddy is") and by calling Lipsky out for attempting to "undercut the verdict."

But just when we thought it couldn't get any better, we came across these lines.

"Lipsky," writes CJR, "was also careful to catalog all of the charges of which Black was found not guilty—which is kind of like writing about all of the car accidents that didn't happen over a long holiday weekend."

And it's exactly that sort of topicality that catapults this piece from the realm of "clever and incisive' to the stratosphere of "mind-numbingly awesome."