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Sarcastic Cat is Sarcastic.

Sarcastic Cat is Sarcastic.

Ever notice how some blogs (ahem) are overwhelmingly, painfully snarky? As in, you wouldn’t feel comfortable approaching the writers, out of fear of becoming their next target– a helpless dartboard for all their incisive criticisms and breezily-tossed epithets? Point is, some bloggers come off sounding like mean dudes, even if they aren’t mean at heart. (And especially if they are.)

Newsweek editor-at-large and Princeton Ferris Journalism Professor-in-Residence Evan Thomas also noticed this phenomenon. He’s seen his fair share. Recently, he visited my Writing Seminar and ended up telling us a little tale of snarkiness and sarcasm– or snarkasm, if you will.

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