although there are a lot of people in this world smarter than me, mark steyn is one of the few who does not cause me any embarrasment or feelings of inferiority on account of him being just a whole lot smarter, and a whole lot better wordsmith, than me. william f. buckley, jr. is another. maybe p.j. o'rourke, too, but i'm not sure he's smarter, but he sure is a whole lot more amusing. and robert bork, of course, i would proudly carry his water. yeah. there's probably twenty or thirty people i could name who: 1. are obviously much smarter and much better educated than me; and, 2. i don't feel bad about that. but of them all, steyn is in a class by himself.
Not bad writing for a high-school drop out. I'm convinced that the way he became so educated and such a briliant writer is that he never went to college.
Practice, practice, practice.