Jonah: Actually (aaargh!) my reader identified Stuttaford as the leading indeeder on The Corner. I’m sure I must be the leading in facter. You? Pretty clean; but watch out for “sound of crickets chirping.” It’s tempting, I know, but one of those idioms that looks tired almost as soon as it appears. (Which it first did, it seems to me, around a year ago.)

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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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