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Monthly Archives: June 2019

Tone, irony, snark, and smarm

H.L. Mencken. Portrait by Carl Van Vecten, 1932, Library of Congress To see similarities between snark and gun violence is wrong of me, I admit. Both are epidemic. But one is deadly, and the other merely wounds. But I had been thinking about two different posts that I might write here, one on snark, and […]