[...]; not seeking out American composers as the least they could do as a return to the country which tries to cover them with renown, and plaster them with California, and which even goes into an epilepsy of assininery as did New York with Jenny Lind.
2012 June 14, "Will we ever live on the Moon?", in Slate:
When will we live on the Moon? It's a fair question. Newt Gingrich's assininery notwithstanding, it's worth considering carefully.
Consider moving to Park Slope, where they embrace that kind of assininery. All's I'm saying is, there are like 50 million restaurants in that development […]