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Sep.04.2010
Recently, Sarah Palin mixed the words "repudiate" and "refute" to create the neologism "refudiate." While I am impressed by people who use polysyllabic words correctly, I doubt that anyone is impressed by individuals who try to sound educated by using long Latinate-...
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Aug.31.2010
It would be easy to write an Obama-backlash book using buzzwords with cliché-ridden accounts of the Right Wing talk show blather-babblers.
Fortunately, Will Bunch does not resort to such pedestrian style bloggisms. As an experienced and award winning journalist, Bunch does his homework and reports...
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Aug.11.2010
How did it come to pass that Fox News and its screaming pals on the talk-radio circuit have convinced so many Americans to forsake their own interests so they can combat a nonexistent Zulu hippie atheist conspiracy to cripple America?
It's because our population is more ignorant and poorly...
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Aug.07.2010
Someone who comments publicly on the private lives of others is usually called a gossip, or, when I was growing up, a "buttinsky". Is it different when I am invited to do the commenting? I hope so. The thing is, in my Ask Isadora advice column I receive requests from the individuals...
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Aug.05.2010
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Stop picking on Sarah, gosh darnit!
Those Lefty mad men of Slate busted the former beauty queen and vice presidential candidate for having negative comments systematically removed from her Facebook page.
Whoa. A public figure trying to stage manage their image? I mean, even Bill...
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Jul.20.2010
My friend and grad school adviser Stanley Fish sent shock waves through the blogosphere when he praised Sarah Palin's book. "I wouldn't count myself a fan in the sense of being a supporter," he wrote in a review, still "I found it compelling and very well done." Given the...
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Jul.20.2010
There is so much, really, to enjoy about Sarah Palin. Yes, she is also terribly frightening, but never mind that right now. Let's think about her hair, her wacky mannerisms, her unintelligible language. She's a delight to make fun of. Recently at my alma mater California State University,...
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May.01.2010
You may have heard the news in the last week about the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found.
The rig belongs to Transocean, the world’s...
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Mar.28.2010
Those who dismiss Sarah Palin as historically ignorant are wrong. . In the coming weeks, as the former Alaska governor on her national roadshow exhorts members if her Tea Party fan club to "reload," the reference to a gun will have peculiar resonance in light of another time in our...
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