Mr. Hoagland is, and always has been an ass.
"Mr. Hoagland is, and always has been an ass."
There's a definite sly, mocking tone in this. But, it's the seemingly tacit assumptions underlying the mockery that are interesting, to say the least.
Yes, and perhaps I'm a fool too.
But like stopped clocks, maybe asses and fools are sometimes right?
There's divided opinion here on the intent of this piece, so far. The FR jury's not quite in yet. Again, I'll grovel if this turns out to be satire and I was too ...uh, retarded... to get it.