Is that you, SMOD? Midterms 'hurtling toward us like a killer asteroid,' SCOTUS seat 'open like a wound'

Brett T. | 11:44 PM on July 02, 2018

The Washington Post’s website says Dan Zak is a feature writer with a bachelor’s degree in literature and journalism, and his latest piece appears in the paper’s Style section.

But what’s it about? The dramatic excerpt provided in the promotional tweet doesn’t give a very clear idea that it comprises dispatches from inside The Resistance, but it might squeak through a freshman poetry class on a good day, or at least make would-be novelist Ben Rhodes jealous.

https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1013864165872717826

“This is not a normal time,” writes Zak, certainly proving the point when it comes to the nation’s major newspapers.

What's your point?

— Anthony Rawlings (@arketex) July 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1013881980943990786

“A Supreme Court seat, open like a wound” is not journalism — at least not in our world.

https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/1013867336762318854

More hyperbole than Trump, and that's not easy to do.

— Gradual Sand (@warmingtozero) July 3, 2018

https://twitter.com/MattBracken48/status/1013883017872527360

Must be the heat…

— Well duh…. (@HardieEric) July 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/cehoskinson/status/1013867847762825216

Hinges are for old white men

— Bill Waldron (@wjwaldron) July 2, 2018

"election hurtling toward us like avenging angel or killer asteroid"

Or maybe, just an election?

— davrola (@davrola) July 2, 2018

Meh. Reads to me like somebody who always thought he should write romance novels. He probably shouldn't.

— Cromwell Singh (@CromwellSingh) July 2, 2018

"Hurtling toward us like an avenging angel, or a killer asteroid?" A Supreme Court seat "open like a wound?" This isn't objective or informative reporting, it's third-rate melodrama that isn't helping your cause – even though that's your very obvious intention.

— Charles W. Burkett (@CharlesWBurkett) July 2, 2018

Dude, a little over the top… Is this supposed to be funny? pic.twitter.com/O1y1Aqf7l2

— Te®®i ⭐⭐⭐ ? ?? ? (@trbrad62) July 2, 2018

Nope pic.twitter.com/vg3KeknC6P

— Flag of Freedom ?? (@FlagofFreedom4) July 2, 2018

At least The Washington Post provides some much-needed balance with its conservative blogger, Jennifer Rubin. Maybe some of her sober prose will put us back in a serious frame of mind; what’s she on about today?