Snarky, like it was a good thing

I'm not familiar with the etymology of the word snarky but it was immediately clear from context what was meant. And very quickly the word became as annoying as the tone of writing that it describes.

And then there's James Wolcott.

If everyone did snarky like he does snarky, I'd be all for it.

From Gop Goes Fellini:

The wolves, it has been explained to us (since the media assume we're idiots), symbolize the terrorist threat lurking in the shadowy darkness. Bush will contain and kill the wolves. Kerry will presumably ignore them until America is a feast of bloody feathers. Or maybe pet them, thinking they're Huskies, only to lose an arm. Liberals are so gullible.

I am probably not the target audience for this spot, since my sympathies are with the wolves, which were slaughtered and tortured by Western settlers and hunted to near extinction. Is there an Elmer Fudd hunter in this commercial symbolizing Bush? I sincerely hope not, because in a fateful standoff between a hunter and a pack of wolves, I will find myself cheering for the wolfpack to rip the hunter to pieces, and this could be construed as a desire to see harm befall our president. I saw what happened to poor Nicholson Baker and I don't need that kind of grief.