"P" is for "Pungent"

"I almost never read the editorials, following the advice of the journalist Jack Germond who once compared the writing of a newspaper editorial to wetting oneself in a dark-blue serge suit: 'It gives you a nice warm feeling, but nobody notices.'”

-- from Joseph Epstein’s otherwise predictable diatribe against newspapers, “Are Newspapers Doomed?” in *Commentary* magazine.