Writing Boots

… who is open to the idea that every new business contact and personal acquaintance could be a person of unlimited intellectual power and unprecedented emotional capacity … and at the same time, not unaware that behind every magnificent man and woman is a desperate child who has spent a lifetime learning how to look cool.

A communication exec boasts: "Just appointed chair of the American Marketing Association in NYC. They have 40,000 members worldwide."

The fishy sentence construction proves: He's a marketing guy, all right.

Thanks for the steer to Mike Long—the funniest speechwriter I know. (And I know 'em all.)