bq. A powerful thunderstorm forced President Obama to cancel his Memorial Day speech near Chicago on Monday—an arbitrary event that had no affect on the trajectory of American politics.
It might sound something like that. Chris Beam of Slate takes a stab. It’s inspired by the Columbia Journalism Review piece that Henry noted previously. Brendan Nyhan and I supplied Beam some of our pet peeves — e.g., this one and this one — although the humor is all his.