November 21, 2005

Okay, so I really enjoy using the word schadenfreude.

Via Best of the Web, this post from Mediabistro about loose lips on the WaPo ship.

It is simultaneously humorous (unintentionally, of course), instructive, and deeply disturbing. I doubt you could find a more myopic, self-centered, fatuous, and hypocritical bunch outside of Congress or a junior high school. It also serves as handy proof of Twain's aphorism about if you hold your tongue some might think you a fool, but once you speak up, it removes all doubt.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at November 21, 2005 03:13 PM
Comments

I'd give Jonathan Yardley a break. The WaPo book section was good when he directed it AND he has the sense to live in Baltimore rather than Washington.

Posted by: steevil(Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at November 21, 2005 03:44 PM

And he's quite accomplished in playing the world's tiniest violin--"How can we write candidly when candor merely invites violations of confidentiality?"

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 21, 2005 04:08 PM

Openness for me to see, but not for thee.

Whee!!

Posted by: skinnydan at November 21, 2005 08:55 PM

Fiddle-dee-dee.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 22, 2005 08:16 AM