Pompous Asses

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Editorial Opinion

“[Y]ou guys have an obligation … to avoid pompously bad writing and the kind of dullness that comes from letting flatulent asses pontificate about things they know no more about than the next man, if as much.” 

—Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), mystery novelist and screenwriter, in a cranky letter to the editor of The Atlantic, 1944.

• Editorial Comment: Robust and wide-open debate is alive and well.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

Summer’s End






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