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Staggering incomprehensibility
This is truly frightening. It seems she assumes her listener shares her own inability to grasp a complete thought. Perhaps she thinks us so stupid and hungry that she need only scatter crumbled fragments on the pool of dialogue and she'll be able to rip this election right from the waters before we recognize her chum for the fisherman's lure it ...
Posted to The Good Word by SplendidMarbles on October 15, 2008
Hitchens' "Vote for Obama"
Hitchens has hit the nail on the head again. As an Independent voter, I came into this election with the assumption that I could live with a victory on either side- were McCain to win, I wouldn't slit my wrists or flee to Canada, and were Obama to win I wouldn't commit sepuku or move to the Caribbean. While both candidates have their strengths ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Porkins on October 13, 2008
What they reveal
It is my belief that a person's sentences reveal her/his thought processes and sometimes reveal the lack of thought process, as well. As conscious individuals we have the power to choose, and therefore edit, what we speak and write. If one is put on the spot, however, like a deer in the headlights, that ability to edit is paralyzed. I liken it to ...
Posted to The Good Word by michele.lafferty on October 2, 2008