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.
Friday, August 15, 2008
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:
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