Klein's Crutches

I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but I recently noticed that Joe Klein uses the ellipse and long dash a staggering amount in his Swampland blog posts. His punctuational affinity borders on the obscene. My favorite example:

The high moral dudgeon on display today is an obscenity--not nearly as obscene as the Russian violence in Georgia, of course, but ghastly in its own way because it promises continuing American myopia and the policy puerility that--as we have seen in Iraq...and also, as Fred Kaplan argues, in Georgia--gets innocent people killed.

That's three dashes and an ellipse in just one sentence. Impressive.