Brevity

At the Haditha hearing today, military intelligence officer Capt. Jeffrey Dinsmore said that his report on Haditha failed to mention that civilians were killed in their homes rather than, as the Marines were claiming, out in the open during a firefight, for the sake of... brevity.

Well thank you Gary fucking Cooper. I’m all for economy of language, but there is such a thing as over-editing. In fact, I see that I over-edited myself in the previous paragraph. Let’s try again: “At the Haditha hearing today, military intelligence officer and cocksucker Capt. Jeffrey Dinsmore said...”

Much better.