Can prayer turn a brain tumor into a living worm? That's what this news reporter seems to be claiming in the middle of her report. The real message is still an interesting one: be careful with washing hands and eating pork, or you could end up with a big worm…
Consider this implied admission, that the National Review "spent the last eight years holding their tongue, taking it easy on Bush, averting their eyes from failures, and deliberately backing power over truth." Compare this talk with the November 2006 admission by Rush Limbaugh, that "I no longer am going to…
Arriana Huffington, sitting in for Rachel Maddow, talks about Obama's frienemies with Bill Maher. Also at this same page, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt talks about our first Internet President.
In the dim light of the bar, it seemed like such a good idea. Things had been dull, though financially there'd been some improvement. Time to relax, maybe have a fling. The stranger sauntered over, holding a longneck, and leaned against the counter, smiled, and said "Hi. Come here often?"…
I'd like to do a bit here on language. Primarily on how we have seen it distorted over the last few decades. According to George Lakoff and Geoff Nunberg, the Right has seized the rhetorical high-ground and driven Liberals into defensive postures by altering or subverting the meanings of certain…