This is why Des Moines is growing, but not in the right way.

I cant upvote this enough. He aggravates me so much that my friends will Rick Roll me with his stories. He tries so hard to be insightful but fails so miserably I want to laugh and cry at the same time. In the words of H.L. Mencken,

"He takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati. That is to say, he writes the worst English I have even encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."

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