In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Word of the Day
An e-mail bud sent me the following:
I don't know if any of you use MyYahoo, a customizable homepage that
streams news, weather, comics, tv schedules, etc. In addition to all
that, at the bottom of my MyYahoo, I have chosen to receive a "word
of the day." Over the past few weeks, it is very clear that these
words and example sentences have not been published at random from a
dictionary's database.
today:
authoritarian
DEFINITION: (adjective) favoring or demanding blind obedience to
leaders
EXAMPLE: Despite Americans' belief in democracy, the American
government has supported authoritarian regimes in other countries.
SYNONYMS: absolute, domineering, dictatorial
yesterday:
obdurate
DEFINITION: (adjective) unwilling to change; stubborn, inflexible
EXAMPLE: Despite the many pleas he received, the governor was
obdurate in his refusal to grant clemency to the convicted murderer.
SYNONYMS: adamant, firm, relentless
Here's mine:
pretzel
DEFINITION: (noun) a brittle or chewy glazed usu. salted slender bread often
shaped like a loose knot
EXAMPLE: Despite Americans' belief in democracy, the American president
likes to choke on a pretzel from time to time, then appear the next day
covered with cuts and bruises on every part of his face.
SYNONYMS: alcoholic, aberration, brazen lie
Not only has Bush expanded modern English, he's turned old nouns into new verbs and worn-out adjectives into adverbs you never even knew existed:
EXAMPLE:
Last night I got totally pretzeled.
Did you see him pretzel that guy?
He failed the pretzelyzer.
The president appeared flushed and pretzelly, his face covered in bruises.
Pretzel this.
With pretzels, the bill comes to three hundred and forty dollars.
According to our best intelligence, Saddam was on the verge of developing biological pretzels.
Pretzel up people.
Shocking and disturbing photographs of naked prisoners forced to pretzel one another in front of guards.
The dogs were unpretzeled.
He pretzels more than any U.S. president in history.
It was simply a pretzel-hunting trip.
Just because we can't find any pretzels doesn't mean they don't exist. Remember that.
I am not a pretzel.
- Michael 3:28 PM - [PermaLink] -
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not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
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- Teddy Roosevelt
"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of
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for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering
hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
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- John F. Kennedy
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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