The words of one of my fellow Palo Alto High School alumni, Jonah King, from Palyalumni.org:

“I have defended the labored bleating of Josh Newman over the last few months as many of my fellow alumni lambasted him as pompous and self-important. I now realize how bitterly remiss I have been. Though this latter-day William F. Buckley sprung from the same wellspring of knowledge, privilege and leisure as you and I, in the interim he has become an unrepentant East Coast apologist who has done George Jefferson one better- moving on up from the haughty snootiness and pseudo-Liberal culture of Palo Alto to the Ubersnootiness of that bastion of classic WASP values and *wink* *wink* superiority, the venerable Ivy League. But moving on up once was not good enough- Josh became a New Yorker- right, just like I’m a Los Angelino. Oh, and Josh, in reference to your assertion that women in and around San Francisco are aesthetically deficient- you are a platitudinous pissant. Back to my rant. Now that Josh deems himself too good for the slings and arrows of outrageous alumni, he has removed the incriminating evidence of his hubris from our collective consciousness. Check out his new website, prophetically named as it is. I write this only as an apology to those whom I doubted these many months. Josh Newman, I hardly knew ye.”

The thing that really hurts, though, is that his lambastment is better written than my postings.