I don’t know if I am more aghast at the shrill idiocy within the text or the shameless copyright infringement of the Godfather design.
I don’t know if I am more aghast at the shrill idiocy within the text or the shameless copyright infringement of the Godfather design.
Tags: film · language · politics
Received an e-mail from Ann Romney this morning, addressed to “John.” My reply: “John has decided to vote for Mr. Obama. Again.”
Overheard: “Have you heard that he never says ‘My prayers are with you.’ It’s always ‘My thoughts are with you.”
I was told by a co-worker today that our current civilization won’t last three more years, and that I’d better have my guns ready. It was then I realized that an Obama bumper sticker on my truck might not be a good idea.
A customer (used loosely, nothing purchased) told me today he’d been “Obamasized,” meaning that he’d lost his job. Huh? This resource (http://tinyurl.com/8a6r64j ) did nothing to clear things up.
Was alarmed to hear that someone axed the President, then realized that it was merely a linguistic offense on “Politics Nation with Rev Al Sharpton.”
Tags: language · politics · TV
She picks it up, rifles through a couple pages, then tosses the AARP Bulletin across the table. I implore, with a quizzical brow furrow. “They used to be for older people, but now…” Her words dangle out there. “What?” She whispers: “Obama…” It trails from her, as a curse.
It may never have occurred to many of his critics that Ted Kennedy acted as a mirror, showing them not only the best, but also the worst, in themselves.
Tags: ideas · language · politics · self
On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.
Not since Klaatu landed in a flying saucer on the Ellipse has Washington been so mesmerized by an object whirring through the sky.
Tags: politics