Joel Stein decided to slam Harry Potter and all who read or view him today in the LAT: Hogwarts fans, you’re stupid, stupid, stupid

A culture that simplifies its entertainment down to fairy tales is doomed to simplify the world down to good and evil. And a culture in which adults go see the “Harry Potter” movies still won’t be enough to help the useless Time Warner options I got in the ’90s, so you might as well buy something from the back of the bookstore instead. You won’t have to wait in line for “Ulysses.”

And an “analyst” who makes conclusions about a culture based on the popularity of a specific set of books and movies is, well, a moron. Certainly he isn’t a very good analyst.

Of course, he purports to be a humorist, but he isn’t my kind of humorist (you know, the funny kind).

And it has been my experience that when someone whips out Joyce as an example of their intellectual bona fides, one need no longer take them seriously.

But, of course, I like movies based on comic book characters, so what do I know?

h/t: Ut Humiliter Opinor.