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Feb. 13, 2010, is a red-letter day for this humble column. That was the Texas Tavern’s 80th birthday. And in a column promoting that, I disparaged the diner’s food. The reader reaction was astonishing. Half praised me to telling an uncomfortable truth they felt reluctant to utter. The other half lobbed accusations like “scurrilous liar,” and acted as if I’d hand-butchered a live cow in the middle of Church Avenue. I never thought that column would get a run for its mone...