All these liberals have become bureaucrats -- or technocrats as they sometimes flatter themselves. Virginia Postrel did some good work on that expose.
In the journalism or writing business, their articles are distinctively rambling, overly long and pointless -- because they get paid by the word rather than saying the most with the least. That would be very incorrect. Formerly that's all one saw -- until the advent of THE BLOG, that pesky, uncontrollable communications of the Undead.