In blogging brevity counts; there’s only so many turgid blocks of text you can read on-screen before your gaze starts sliding off the page and really, why bother? Lifes’ too damned short and many other good writers are only a click away.
I’m one of the worst offenders – a bit of a windbag, prone to go off into mangled subclauses and get lost in the forest of metaphor, overfond of the unnecessary adverb and a little too enamoured of big words and the hyphenated-compound-phrase. But I do admire the ability to be both witty and concise, so well done Norbizness’ for this virtuoso display of miniaturisation :
As we have all seen, a correlation between decreased food inspections and shitloads of people barfing all over the place cannot be conclusively and faith-basedly proven. If your kid asks what ever happened to habeus corpus, tell them it’s in writ heaven playing with all the other dead writs. // Everyone as crazy as Ayn Rand Henry Ford knows that unions are far bigger terrorists than radicalized Muslims. They’re terrorizing CEOs, the heart and soul of our country! // Remember, for the 54000th time: the only way to fix problems is to muzzle the complainers. // States that want money for children’s health insurance or contraceptive information for vulnerable, poor women should realize that they just can’t compete with Lockheed executives. Give it up! (links courtesy of Bitch Ph.D.) Enjoy your severe poverty, chumps! // Speaking of massive federal indifference, it appears that regional factions are attempting to tackle global warming; none too soon, either, because of the re-appearance of La Nina. // More on persecuting the competent prosecutors in favor of political hacks. // Finally, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the government is lying to you about its effective in combating terrorism, as well as the negative effects of medical marijuana.
All this and furry puppies too!
Unpacking and reading that little lot will go very nicely with tea, toast, the sunday papers and The Archers and will just about satisfy my quota of smug middle class liberal outrage for the rest of the day.
[The eyecandyat the top’s just by way of adding to the gaiety of nations.]
