The Wordsmith Award

Michael Berube posts about his evolving view of Sarah Palin and the conservative intellectual punditry's reaction to her emergence on the national stage. His conversation with his "Imaginary Interlocutor" produces this delightful bit.

"The thing about Kristol," I.I. replied, "is that after he's dead, we're going to find out not only that he has no vital oils but that he has no internal organs whatsoever. No higher-order consciousness, no pineal gland housing the soul. What's in there instead? Just balsam wood from tip to toe."