You Know You Have Hit a Nerve When You Get Fan Mail Like This

Captain Obvious has left a new comment on your post "Had I Been There":

Lee, just because you can't see what benefit any of Susan's travels have accrued doesn't mean they aren't there. Logic 101 - absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. As a woman who uses her education as a cudgel against the administration, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. As it stands now, your tirades are approaching that state best described by H. L. Mencken:

"He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."

Only your writing is somehow worse - it retains the leftovers of its former clarity and grace, and it saddens the reader with memories of what must have been.. before.

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Posted by Captain Obvious to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 9:50 PM