A note at Villainous led me to the Paragraph Farmer's essay on "snark," defined as "snidely derisive".
I went to prep school with a kid named Snidely P.Q. DeRiseve lll from Locust Valley, Long Island. It must be the same guy. Wore an ascot, family had a place in Quogue, a nice pied a terre on Park Avenue and a flat in Paris?
And that piece led me to an old piece by our hero P.J. O'Rourke from Parliament of Whores about a Farm Bill.
Everything O'Rourke said about Farm Bills then is still true, except that the farmers are much wealthier today.