Pajamas media?

It's midnight in the garden of pajamas media.

My Nassau hotel is surrounded by tall palm trees which bend dramatically in the wind, and appear quite used to taking a beating. The sound they make is, now that I think about it, very "characteristic." Yet as I say that I realize that I cannot define what I mean by "characteristic"; only that I've been listening long anough that I now know the sound, which is very different from the sound trees make in the Philadelphia area -- even in summer. The long, tapering blades of the palm fronds make a very distinctive whooshing noise as they bend in the wind's path.

But what the hell is so "characteristic" about this "whooshing noise," and how is it different from the sound the trees make where I come from? I cannot put it in words, and more than I can put into words other things I can clearly sense. Once I was in an elevator going up, and a group of people got on, with looks on their faces which suggested that they intended to go down. So sure was I that they wanted to go down (and were making a mistake) that I thought I should warn them, but I stopped myself, for I had no way to be sure that they wanted to go down and it wasn't my job to anticipate the needs of total strangers. Sure enough, as soon as the door closed and the elevator started going up, they groaned! So I was right, but I still can't describe precisely how people look when they get on an elevator expecting to go down. It was just something I could read on their faces, but I can't tell you how it looked.

Yawn. Is that all it takes to be a prominent pajamas media blogger? Or is it the freaks in the comments section that do it?

YOU SHAME OUR FOREFATHERS. ONLY TRAITORS LIKE YOU WOULD FLOOD AMERICA WITH DRUGS AND COMMIT "TERRORIST" ACTS LIKE 9/11 AS JUSTIFICATIONS TO SUSPEND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. JESUS CHRIST HAS REMOVED HIS BLESSING FROM OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY.

Wow, was that meant to annoy?