At Last My English Major Is Paying Off

We Llamas are the #2 Google hit for effin linguistic.

And speaking of such things, Jonah reprints part of an article Terry Teachout wrote about Norman Mailer. A choice cut:

Mailer has been writing badly for so long that it is easy to forget that a great many intelligent people once took him almost as seriously as he took himself....

The trouble with Mailer was that he was drunk on ideas, a deadly tipple for woolly-minded pseudo-intellectuals. Sensing instinctively that liberalism had run its course, he made the mistake of assuming that radicalism was the only way out, and complicated matters still further by opting for a romantic radicalism rooted in sexual mysticism. As a result, his style grew bloated and slack, especially on the increasingly frequent occasions when he grappled with imperfectly digested philosophical concepts.

'Effin right, mate.