If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.Everything I know about snark, I owe to PJ.
(H/T to Insty.)
Fraid not.
ReplyDeleteThat is wit!
Snark is the product of dull wom n with sharp tongues. That is why so many of them are reporters nd democrats.,.
"That is wit!
ReplyDeleteSnark is the product of dull wom n with sharp tongues. That is why so many of them are reporters nd democrats.,."
I'd say you're about half-qualified to judge wit.
P.J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken, and Will Rogers can teach you 90% of what you need to know about politics.
ReplyDeleteShould P.J. be President Palin's speechwriter or Press Secretary?
ReplyDeleteOn growing up poor PJ said he was thankful in that he did not escape poverty, he escaped help.
ReplyDeleteHe has a new book coming out at the end of next month, btw.
ReplyDeletePJ is the master of snark, he even towers over Florence King.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, snark is not Miss King's preferred tool. She'll leave you flayed before you notice the scapel, with O'Rourke it'd be like watching a JDAM come in on your position.
Everything I know about snark, I owe to PJ.
ReplyDeletePerhaps by analogy, it is remarkable how much J. J. Cale sounds like Mark Knopfler.
Jim
"I'd say you're about half-qualified to judge wit."
ReplyDeleteTam +1.