This funny essay was read at mother’s little women’s social club. I found it on the internet on several sites with slight moderations, so who knows where it originated. Anyway, as a lover of language (especially English, which is freakin’ weird), I thought it was clever.
The Story of UP
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings
I hate to gloat while people are being publicly embarrassed, but really, Republicans just beg for it with their hypocrisy and sleazy politicking to save themselves at any cost to actual victims, or the country.
Craig’s `wide Stance’ Enters Lexicon – New York Times
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Among the most famous excuses ever given for questionable
There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences of a bad metaphor have corrupted our public discourse and foreign relations, decimated our Constitution and military infrastructure, and made us all less safe from all kinds of threats, internal… Read the rest
Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the same mistake the left (including me) usually does in phrasing things to make other lefties nod their heads, and everyone else’s eyes glaze over.
The wingers’ language is simple
My Dad’s a pretty mainstream, “middle of the road” Democrat, but he has upon occasion gotten passionate about politics. He still talks about the amazing Keynote Address Mario Cuomo gave at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. I just found it on a site called American Rhetoric, where great oratory is archived, in text, audio and in some cases, video.… Read the rest
Daily Kos :: Galloway’s Testimony Before Senate: MUST READ!
Only Senators Coleman and Levin were in attendance for the hearing of testimony by George Galloway, MP, on what part he may have played in the Iraq oil for food debacle. But Galloway knew he had a much larger audience and he used the opportunity well.
“Senator, this is… Read the rest
Open Letter to Anyone Who Gives a Shit About Justice by Ajai Raj.
Ajai Raj — great name by the way — is the kid who had the balls (and the bad taste) to ask Ann Coulter about ass-fucking at her recent intentionally incidiary stage show at UT Austin. As Steve Guillard said in the the comments… Read the rest
