Words Mean Something

Catastrophe vs. Trivialization — More on Nuclear Meltdowns

March 15, 2011

I’m seeing this on Facebook a lot: this is too tragic to be trivialized.  Meanwhile, even the New York Times is busting out headlines that shout “Nuclear Catastrophe!” I have opinions, and I did once work in the nuclear power industry.  But I am not advocating anything (I don’t think).  I just wish there...

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A Nuclear Vocabulary: Japan, Meltdown, What it Means

March 13, 2011

On top of the reporting about one of the 5 most powerful earthquakes in recorded history, which has resulted in over 10,000 deaths and massive disruption in Japan, as well as Tsunamis that swept the pacific, we seem to be focusing on the nuclear power plants.  Obviously there is a concern, and in relation...

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Jessica Biel and those NYC Skanks

August 26, 2009

Not that they’re related in any way except for internet damage, but there you go. A few months ago, a probable Skank by the name of Rosemary Port created an anonymous blog, in which she gave another probably Skank, Liskula Cohen an award for being the Skankiest Ho in NYC.  Among the some 1,700...

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McDonald’s Versus Long John Silver

April 4, 2009

Once again I’ve got “Give me back my little fish” stuck in my head.  I’m not sure that’s the actual lyric, but it doesn’t matter.  You know it, the McDonald’s fish song.  Long John Silver tried to bust out with a new series of commercials that pretty much attack the McDonald’s Fillet O’ Fish...

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Why Rush Limbaugh Hates America

March 3, 2009

I Love America.  This includes many pieces of America that, taken individually, I don’t like so much.  Some, I loath.  But altogether, put it in a big pile, and I’ll keep it.  Fight for it.  Whatever.  Here are just a sampling of the many pieces of America: Giant balls of twine and three-story lava-lamps,...

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Marriage, Christianity, and Proposition 8

November 20, 2008

California voters have passed a proposition that defines a word, but has no other legal consequence.  Proposition 8 says: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.  However, even proponents of the law point out that, under California law, domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and...

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Signs of Patriotism

October 30, 2008

Sometimes I hear people describe criticism of Sarah Palin as “hate”.  “All you liberals are hating on Sarah Palin!” It’s not hate, it’s patriotism.  If you believe, as I do, that she is utterly unqualified, and that the country is in deep trouble, you have to believe that Palin is a threat to our...

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