If Only I Could Write Like This

I am, as so many of you fellow sufferers know, a pedestrian writer, slow on the uptake, and prolix to the extreme.

Now, here's an example of good writing from the other side:

I'm quite fond of Barbara Boxer. Her ardent, sincere, and repeated failures to move liberal policies in the Senate - most recently the Energy Bill - suggest there was a time when liberals actually had power and could work through the policy process. Mike Lux tells me that was the case once, but it's not within my political experience.

Even if I can't write gud, I wanted you to know that I know what gud writin' is.