I did not mean to imply that Lisp's notation itself was against common sense - just that the article made a very good common-sense point about its expressivenes

I did not mean to imply that Lisp's notation itself was against common sense - just that the article made a very good common-sense point about its expressiveness coming at a price that's often not worth paying, relative to the advantages it gives you over languages with less expressive but more goal-oriented syntax.