NP: The Newly Crowded King of Meta

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

. . . .Because the thing I can't leave alone, the thing that 
makes me giddy as a schoolgirl is this: Whatever else I 
am -- a traitorous apostate to newsprint, the angriest 
hack in television, a kicker of small dogs -- you must 
acknowledge that I am now, also, the newly crowded 
King of Meta. That's right. I am your new lord sovereign 
of buried, latent, subtextual argument. I dragged it past 
sarcasm, past cynicism, and all the way to balls-out snide. 
Crown me up and kneel, ya bitches. . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-simon/the-wires-final-s_b_91926.html