Sometimes, I just stand back in admiration of someone else's mastery of the blog form. Often as not, it is Jay Nordlinger of NRO. Here's a telling vignette, almost like a Haiku, a moment which crystallizes the kerry campaign, from today's Impromptus:

In Wisconsin, Candidate Kerry said, "I have a great sense of the land. I really do. I'm tired of small family farmers getting squeezed."

I have a great sense of the land. I really do.

A question, which I mean almost seriously, not just rhetorically: Why isn't this man a laughingstock? I mean, even among committed Democrats? Why?

Nice work, Jay.

Thomas Lifson   9 29 04