This is the opening sentence of today’s Chronicle editorial:
If a camel is an animal designed by a committee, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct resembles a panel designed by camels.
What?!
How about this one, written by yours truly:
If a house editorial is a column written by a committee, the Chronicle’s ability to write a decent metaphor is crap.
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