The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, […] tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel […]

Friend 2: Heh.

If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.