I actually don’t think he was senior correspondent at ABC News when he wrote this. I think they updated his bio later and that got reflected on all his articles. But he wasn’t an intern either. I think he was a staffer at Salon back in 2003.
Cannot overstate the sense memory this gave me of reading this on my old computer, jaw hanging wide open, but the sheer volume of nutty lines made me forget some wild ones:
I am somehow inhaling an entire carton of lit cigarettes as I explain in a voice as worn and leathery as my skin that I haven’t remembered this thing in years
Is this the journalism equivalent of male erotica writers who clearly never had sex ed and this have no idea you can't cum into a woman's chest cavity through her vagina?