Why we need The Poor Man

Because who else could make a comparison between Rod Stewart and Noam Chomsky?

Noam Chomsky pretty much sucks. One hears stories about times, long ago, when he didn't suck so much, and was actually kind of good. These claims, much like the claims of contemporaneous Rod Stewart non-suckiness, may well be true, but do strike us, given the evidence of our lifetime, as staggeringly unlikely, and we aren't really interested in looking into them.

I'm reminded of Rod Stewart's appearance in the Guardian's Lost Consonants cartoon: Rod was busy making rap versions of old hits.