What Voters Want: Competence

One time, years ago, the veteran Baltimore newspaperman, H.L. Mencken, was checking copy coming in from the night editor and sighing at the rising number of errors he was noticing, errors of fact but also of syntax, and even some idioms that didn't sound quite right. He shook his head and said, as much to himself as to the editor at his side: "The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology." Full Story »

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Jami Dwyer
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by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Competence, eh? Will's come a long way from his column about Dubya: "He's No Intellectual--and So What?" Ugh. These people need to be fired.

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