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But what's disturbing here is not his logic, it's his attitude. He comes across as incredibly condescending and smarmy.

Yes, he's a smarmy know-it-all with the personality of a hall monitor, the kind of guy everyone hides from at a Christmas party. —Bill Simmons, ESPN, 2 Aug. 2004 One of the reasons I dig Sparky is for him not being smarmy.