Last week Maria Bustillos stood, correctly, in defense of irony as a sort of adult, reasoned posture in response to the various horrors of the world. (Sincerity, on the other hand, [Christy] Wampole considers the province of the young, in addition to a cohort including—no shit—“elderly people” and “people with severe mental and physical disabilities.”) Bustillos manages to defend irony without considering the weak heart of Wampole’s argument, which indicates that Wampole herself has a pretty loose grasp on the concept. (Standard disclaimer about having no idea what I’m talking about.) …