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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Rhetorical Parlor Tricks
World-weariness is rhetorically and socially useful. You know how that goes. Assume an air of world-weariness – you’ve seen it all before and anyone who is all excited and enthusiastic, or are in a panic asking if the sky is really … Continue reading
Posted in Political Posturing
Tagged Assuming a Persona to Win an Argument, Calling Out Nonsense, Charles Krauthammer, Falsely Accusing Others of Bigotry, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Glenn Greenwald, Myth of Sisyphus, Political Posturing, Republican Bigotry, Republican Racism, Rhetorical Parlor Tricks, Sartre and Camus, Tea Party Bigotry, Tea Party Racism, Vaudeville Shtick, World-Weariness
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Hitting the August Wall
Sometimes there is just nothing to say. Sure, big things are afoot. As Sherlock Holmes used to say – Come, Watson, the game is afoot! And off they’d go. And Watson never said just stuff it, Sherlock. But what with … Continue reading
Posted in Nation of Know-Nothings
Tagged A Nation of Know-Nothings, American Credulity, Beck the New Martin Luther King, Beck's DC Rally, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Dog Days of Summer, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Michelle Obama in Spain, Misinformation, Misinforming America, Obama a Muslim, Obama Signed TARP, Rush Limbaugh, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750–52), Timothy Egan, Watson and Holmes
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