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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] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe she's been getting poked in the eye too much . . . by accident . . .

I heard that one's aim doesn't get better with age.

(I can't help myself sometimes. Just gotta say what comes to mind!)

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 02:28 am (UTC)(link)

"I heard that one's aim doesn't get better with age."

Sort of Night of the Living McCain, you mean?

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 02:44 am (UTC)(link)

Well, doggone!

(Fortunately, or you two'd be hurling it into the hot tub along with the others . . .)