Every once in a while you come upon a phrase which makes understanding Super String Theory seem like a walk in the park. I came upon a sentence like that in a piece at the Atlantic Wire Website.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s January 25 column, “How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls,” established pretty convincingly that the erotic-services advertising website owned by Village Voice Media was used to promote prostitution, and often violent and usurious forms of the practice.
Let’s pick out one word: usurious… practicing usury.
OK. Usury then. Usury: the lending of money at exorbitant interest rates.
Well, I suppose we are talking about lending here. You have the use of certain of the prostitute’s body parts, usually until one or more of your body parts cries Hooray! or Uncle.
Nicholas Kristoff and The Atlantic have declared some of these prices usurious. What would we do without experts to school us in the proper price of poontang? What do you think?
To paraphrase Freud: How much does woman want?
UPDATE: Another county heard from: Secret Service Agents “stiff” hooker.
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Winston Churchill once declared that, while he would not be so boorish so as to accuse a political opponent of lying, he might say the fellow was guilty of a terminological inexactitude.
The phrase came frequently to mind when listening to the last few Obama speeches about the Supreme Court and the Ryan plan for a budget. Listening to him serially pick a topic, define it as something wildly unlike what it actually was, often defining it as its exact opposite, and doing it with such intense earnestness put me in mind of The Music Man, or one of his forbears, the colorful pitchmen of the late, great, wild west medicine shows.
Well, dear friends, I was wrong and I am here to admit it. Obama hasn’t been taking oratory lessons from such people as the proprieter of the folk remedy Hadacol whose inventor, when pressed about what, exactly, it was good for replied that it was good for several million dollars.
We know that it was Senator Harry Reid who first pressed Obama to run for president and here you can see the genesis of the President’s style of terminological inexactitude in this reply by Reid’s staff to a genealogist’s discovery that Harry’s ancestor had been hanged for hoss-stealing and train robbing.
As the old Right Guard commercial had it:
Never let ‘em see you sweat.
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Poor Barack. Reduced to parroting old lines over and over and over again.
This can result in something comedians call dying. It ain’t pretty.
Per Valerie Jarrett: always the smartest person in any room. Too smart, really, to be fully engaged in the business of governing. The question arises: if someone is that smart wouldn’t the fruits of that massive smartness make such superiority evident, obviating the necessity of having one’s menials proclaim it at every opportunity?
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