It wasn't nonsense though. It was spot on. It was pre-internet, and yet it's very accurate about the state of our language today.
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Several sections of this blog category could just as accurately be called Things That Suddenly Want To Turn Back Into Elemental Nitrogen. And thermodynamically, there aren't many gently sloping paths down to nitrogen gas, unfortunately. Both enthalpy and entropy tilt things pretty sharply.