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Althouse - Oct 10, 2008
Writes Peggy Noonan. I don't know about that. We like our warrior girl... some of us. Those that don't like Palin the Warrior aren't going to like Palin the "social conservative who is for diplomacy, for an …
Also tagged: sarah palin, peggy noonan
Althouse - Oct 8, 2008
McCain's words, processed into cloud form: (Enlarge.) Obama's cloud: (Enlarge.) Observations? I'll start with a few: 1. I wish I could exclude all the boring words like "going." 2. McCain is much more likely than …
Also tagged: debate, mccain, obama, word cloud
Althouse - Oct 5, 2008
But he left me naked shorts , the best metaphor known to gnomes of Zurich since the snake in the tunnel . Just a William Safire sentence I like. What do you look like in naked shorts? It's the koan of the day. blog …
Also tagged: zen, snakes, metaphor, safire, financial markets, men in shorts
Althouse - Oct 4, 2008
I want to assure you that you haven't yet noticed everything there is to observe about the way Sarah Palin talks. Language Log writes:: One of the things that marks Sarah Palin as a linguistic outsider is her use of …
Also tagged: sarah palin, language log
Althouse - Oct 3, 2008
And look, there's a Wikipedia entry on "Nucular": Usage by politicians U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, as well as Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale and Vice …
Also tagged: sarah palin
Althouse - Sep 25, 2008
LOL. And those dastardly puzzlers also betray an evil fondness for Arab cities, the Spanish language, Hindu royalty, Hawaiian fowl, and these dreadful things: blog advertising blog advertising
Also tagged: puzzles, royalty, birds, spain, partisanship
Althouse - Sep 23, 2008
I've been reading and listening to people talk for over a half century, so it's really weird to have to look up 2 word in 2 hours. First, MadisonMan, he of the bird's-eye view of the Michelle Obama rally-ette, said …
Also tagged: drugs, writing, movies, star wars, breasts, economics, gawker, grooming, mccain, michelle obama, aging, tarantino, elizabeth wurtzel, david foster wallace, madisonman
Althouse - Sep 21, 2008
A sentence that was just deleted from Barack Obama's website page about Social Security. Noted by Peter Bray, who asks: "Is he trying to stoke anxiety about his position on Social Security?" My thoughts: 1. Raising …
Also tagged: economics, social security, obama, aging, rhetoric
Althouse - Sep 20, 2008
What do you think is Sarah Palin's most famous quote? My attempt to answer gets me to a quote that I know is not the real quote: "I can see Russia from my house." I know that's how Tina Fey spoofed Palin on SNL. The …
Also tagged: comedy, russia, foreign affairs, snl, alaska, sarah palin
Althouse - Sep 19, 2008
Wow. Hysteria? I remember when feminists would rip into you for applying attributing "hysteria" to a woman. It was a per se sexist term. Now, a woman who fancies herself a feminist applies the word to every woman she …
Also tagged: sarah palin, psychology, feminism