I think verbosity has an unreasonable stigma attached to it. I think verbosity without any value is bad, but that's not what one gets with Patrick's blogs. He's

I think verbosity has an unreasonable stigma attached to it. I think verbosity without any value is bad, but that's not what one gets with Patrick's blogs. He's verbose because he is trying to explain very complex situations to people who have no prior background in them, and that means it's going to get verbose. He couldn't really cut anything without hurting his readers' ability to understand the situations he writes about.