I got about half-way through the article when I thought, "This sounds very similar to Steyn", and lo and behold! Another home run by the Steynmeister!
Me too... I started reading it without first seeing the byline. I got hooked by the third paragraph when I came upon the Irving Berlin reference, and scrolled back up to see who had penned it, and discovered that it was actually a Steyn piece (um, masterpiece, that is).
*Exactly* the same thing happened to me too!