I'm no fan of Maureen Dowd's but . . .
Oct. 8th, 2008 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthog. . . 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.
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Date: 2008-10-09 12:24 am (UTC)http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html
Among other things:
"In the 1800s, Samuel Augustus Maverick went to Texas and became known for not branding his cattle. He was more interested in keeping track of the land he owned than the livestock on it, Ms. Maverick said; unbranded cattle, then, were called “Maverick’s.” The name came to mean anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand."
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:26 am (UTC)Ah but Louie, you underestimate me. I did in fact know this.
Furthermore, the descendants of Samuel have put up a website in which they bitterly condemn the use of their family name by the McCain-Palin ticket. Apparently Samuel (or perhaps his son; it was a few weeks ago I exoplored the site) was a radical politician who'd have spat on right-wingers of any stripe.
*cocky omniscient swagger*
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 01:47 am (UTC)"I keep waiting for Palin to get a dose of unaccustomed honesty and say, "Maverick? Maverick? I can't even spell the word . . ."
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 02:04 am (UTC)I'll not mis-underestimate you again ;-)
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:24 am (UTC)"I'll not mis-underestimate you again ;-)"
You betcha!
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Date: 2008-10-09 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 01:11 pm (UTC)*bows*