By "sophisticated," of course, I mean "incomprehensible." (The New Yorker's motto? "I don't get it. Get it?")
So while everyone debates the important issues like who's more offended by the cover or who would pay $4.50 a week for a magazine, here's some useful stuff for those who can see past satire:
* Here's Ryan Lizza's article about Barack Obama, "Making it," published in the outrageous magazine nobody bothered to open.
* National Public Radio's Terry Gross talked to Lizza on "Fresh Air" Monday.
* Here's magazine's cartoonist Liza Donnelly of Milan, who told the Freeman's Bonnie Langston at the end of 2005 that her "stuff is pretty gettable."