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March 13, 2007 by mr_flood.
You have to love these articles that you see now and again where the author derides some action but participates in that action himself. Take Anna Quindlen, for example, from MSNBC. She writes an article who’s main thesis is:
The national snarkfest is on its way out, and good riddance.
First lets elaborate on what ’snark’ is. According to Wicktionary it’s a ’snide remark’, snide being ’slyly disparaging, dishonest, or unworthy of esteem. So, Anna is apparently against all this snidely disparaging, dishonesty we got goin’ on around here!
The landscape of American discourse has grown lousy with agents provocateurs whose careers are built around delivering verbal depth charges, not information. The form is now officially past its sell-by date.
The public has outgrown it.
I for one am glad and look forward to you handing out some of this fantastic ‘information’, so whatcha got for me?
The war that is a fruitless quagmire. The government that can’t even provide adequate services to returning soldiers. The stock market that seems to be on a vertiginous ride. The housing bubble ready to blow away middle-class families.
An educational system that often seems not to educate. A criminal-justice system that is a swamp for the victim and the accused. A health-care system that leaves sick people running up chemo on their high-interest credit cards. And a future built on a monstrous deficit that could sink Social Security and any other meaningful entitlement program for coming generations.
Hmm. I think the best way to characterize those statements would be snidely disparaging. Surely not from Anna! Wait, there’s more!
The number of serious Republican contenders is far smaller, but at least the party is no longer completely paralyzed by the usual litmus tests: abortion, gay rights, gun control. Why, Mitt Romney alone has been on both sides of almost every one of those issues!
How wonderful! Can’t you just feel the information oozing from every word?
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