Worth a year of NYT’s phoned in Op-Ed treacle. Oops, I did it again, damning with faint praise. “Ermined” to be stolen and repeated, maybe I should license. Thanks for a truthful picture of the mechanics of an umbrage incident.
Ruddy ransacking it should be called. Or scandalous skulduggery... Coup? Like gloop? Troup? Poop! Zazie seems offended. Put it all in a bottle and throw it out to sea! Might as well
For what it's worth to anyone, I made a few changes to the original post so it said more of what I wanted to say with less stupid. There must be a syndrome called Blog-Remorse, no ? I grew up on the later Breslin 800 word gems so I'll try to keep it short....
One of the few interesting comments that I saw in the Guardian about this entry's second issue, Getting the Bastard Out, was that talk about election manipulation is, and I quote, "not getting traction because of the optics and the use of an unfamiliar word." In other words, too many people don't know what coup means. Maybe they hear that and they're waiting for their next glass of champagne. This seems to me entirely plausible, and in any case, it is isn't just the meaning but the whole historical resonance we're talking about. So let's propose an alternative.
Worth a year of NYT’s phoned in Op-Ed treacle. Oops, I did it again, damning with faint praise. “Ermined” to be stolen and repeated, maybe I should license. Thanks for a truthful picture of the mechanics of an umbrage incident.
Ruddy ransacking it should be called. Or scandalous skulduggery... Coup? Like gloop? Troup? Poop! Zazie seems offended. Put it all in a bottle and throw it out to sea! Might as well
For what it's worth to anyone, I made a few changes to the original post so it said more of what I wanted to say with less stupid. There must be a syndrome called Blog-Remorse, no ? I grew up on the later Breslin 800 word gems so I'll try to keep it short....
One of the few interesting comments that I saw in the Guardian about this entry's second issue, Getting the Bastard Out, was that talk about election manipulation is, and I quote, "not getting traction because of the optics and the use of an unfamiliar word." In other words, too many people don't know what coup means. Maybe they hear that and they're waiting for their next glass of champagne. This seems to me entirely plausible, and in any case, it is isn't just the meaning but the whole historical resonance we're talking about. So let's propose an alternative.