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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-10-08 06:53 pm

I'm no fan of Maureen Dowd's but . . .



. . . the concluding sentence of her NYT piece the other day about Sarah Palin's various homicidal attacks upon vocabulary, grammar and (in the larger sense) syntax deserves mention. It is a very simple observation that should be made more often:

True mavericks don’t brand themselves.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I had not thought any form of 'sport hunting' could be more disgusting than shooting roosting birds. Now I've learnt that there is.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 01:27 am (UTC)(link)

"I had not thought any form of 'sport hunting' could be more disgusting than shooting roosting birds. Now I've learnt that there is."

Reminds me of the "hunting" Prince Albert and his chums engaged induring the royal Scottish sojourns. Fish in a barrel had more chance.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Or the 'hunting' that the great sportsman Dick Cheney engages in.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 11:27 am (UTC)(link)

Attorneys in a barrel?

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well, now, there might be some sympathy for Cheney if he did that.