Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 7:49 AM by Gene

Norman Mailer, who screamed in print for 60 years, dedicating his career to the proposition of making the crank respectable, has died. RIP.

Or as somebody named Pyle at the ASSPRESS says:

...the country's literary conscience and provocateur....

...which is saying the same thing I said in code words, which is why an outfit like the CLATCH has gone from 75 to 15.

P. S. When the TWXSTERS initally posted the news on a banner they said his literary agent announced it. Not likely; that would have been the late fraud Scott Meredith, the perfect rep for a crank.

P. P. S. at 5:10 P.M. A NEW! member of PAJAMASMEDIA (and thus an honorary VOLOKHHEAD) uses 5,319 WORDS to say what I said in 23, and his radical shtick becomes tiresome after the second graf -- but that's what you need to be a SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGER. (Via Arts & Letters Daily, which links to too many such effusions)

P. P. P. S.

...Its author, the man to whom the Lord spoke from out of the doughnut....

Not wanting to further research why so many of the SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS have a word addiction we note this TNR essay from Leon Wieseltier, published five days ago; that line is far more memorable than 5,319 WORDS, and we've no doubt none of Mr. Kimball's 5,319 WORDS are equally such.