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The experts speak
Science writer Carl Zimmer in the NYT yesterday, in the middle of “As Ebola Spreads, So Have Several Fallacies”: Recently on “Fox News Sunday,” the political commentator George F. Will said, “There are...
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Verbing the bumpkin
From the NYT Magazine on Sunday the 2nd, a piece, “The Bumpkinification of the Midterm Election” by Mark Leibovich, in which bumpkin ‘an awkward fellow, a clown’ is verbed, by -ify in the title, by...
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Political cartoons
Three more cartoons from the May issue of Funny Times, cartoons that are in some way “political”: from Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, and Ruben Bolling: (#1) (#2) (#3) Ted Rall. New on this blog. From...
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Trump’s incoherence?
Over on Language Log, Geoff Pullum has posted, under the heading “Trump’s aphasia”, about a Donald Trump speech: The following word-stream (it cannot be called a sentence) was uttered by Republican...
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A Ben Carson note
As the presidential primary season rolls on, we discover that Ben Carson’s accounts of his life history seem to have a certain amount of embroidery in them. Meanwhile, Carson continues to espouse some...
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Flagging Marcomentum
This was just a week ago, which can be a long time in political life. In the NYT Magazine on March 6th, on p. 15, in the piece “Inside Out” by Mark Leibovich: I was traveling with [Marco] Rubio in...
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Zippy goes out to catch a bite
… in two recent strips, first at Dippin’ Donuts and then at the Sugar Shack. Looks like sweet tooth days for our Pinhead. Both strips are strewed with allusions of all kinds, of course. (#1) (#2)...
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… And the American Way
A recent pointed superhero cartoon by Mike McCain (hat tip to Tim Evanson): (#1) The story of the cartoon, from the Comics Alliance site: So many of the best Superman moments are truly moments, brief...
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stans
One more item from my blog backlog, this one starting with a January 2nd op-ed column in the NYT by Paul Krugman, “America Becomes a Stan”, which began: In 2015 the city of Ashgabat, the capital of...
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In the West Wing
Having fallen into the world of American politics in viewing the documentary I Am the Ambassador (about Rufus Gifford, until recently the US ambassador to Denmark), I went on to doing the whole 7-year...
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Special counsel appointed
Informed opinion has been very positive about the appointment of Mueller as special counsel to investigate allegations in the semolina affair. Commenters are generally agreed that Mueller is a...
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This is not a President
Passed on by Adam Schembri on Facebook, this topical parody of Magritte’s The Betrayal of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe): A clever reversal of Magritte’s image by Annette Müllender. A number of...
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Make America grate again
Protests against pre-shredded cheese in today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) A punning play on the...
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Mud, shit, and chocolate
Caught on re-run tv yesterday, in the Law & Order S19 E10 episode “Pledge” (from 1/21/09): Your entire case rests on this girl’s testimony. If her only impetus to cooperate is greed, you’re in...
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Quid pro Joe
From the Washington Examiner, “[REDACTED] campaign calls Biden ‘Quid Pro Joe’ and says whistleblower is ‘in favor of one of the corrupt 2020 Democrats’” by Mike Brest on 9/29/19: The [Helmet Grabpussy]...
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Briefly noted: the terror face emoji
Lauren Hall-Lew writes on Facebook: 2020 is here and #WWIII is the new Twitter hashtag. Crystal Patterson Muneau follows up: I need an emoji reaction button to indicate how terrified I am. You could,...
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wingman, winger
In a NYT Magazine piece on Grabpussy Jr., an arresting mid-page teaser quote: I searched my mental banks for relevant senses of winger, working my way through wingman first, eventually discovering that...
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Octopi Wall Street
(I’m trying to catch up on postings from before my hospital time, just the few for which materials were already on my desktop. This is the first.) From, I think, Ann Burlingham, this Octopi Wall Street...
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Briefly: exocentric V + N
(Warning: a vulgar term for the primary female sexual anatomy will end up playing a big role in this posting.) Where this is going: to an alternative name for an American President (#45, aka TFG); and...
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Denis Sarazhin
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate March, a month that seems to have lasted forever, through meteorological disasters, the daily devastation of mass shootings, and the profoundly dangerous paranoid...
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