Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
On The Death of Bin Laden by John Tully Now I lay me down to sleep while people cheer in the streets like creeps Of course I love and respect our troops but wonder why they get treated like poop Having to buy body armor-on their fifth deployment, while people fetishize them- a video game […]
MoreLanguage Log January 31, 2007 Roger Shuy (“-ic“) is not the only one who’s been talking about the president’s missing morpheme. At the start of Maura Reynolds’ article “The ‘Democrat majority’ is still the talk of the capital” in the Los Angeles Times, 1/30/2007, she asks: Will President Bush put the “-ic” back in “Democratic”? […]
MoreIn this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and […]
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