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Posts Tagged ‘very very very very poorly thought-out metaphors’

But Is There A Subset of The Note That Can, Uhm…Write?

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

thenote_branding_t.jpgOn any other day, we’d be applauding The Note for contributing something strained and unintelligible to our discourse. Something like this superlative disaster: MORE »


NYT Gives Mark Warner the Dorian Gray Treatment

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

20060315nytwarner.jpgOur gossip-obsessed sister reports today that the Times Magazine is copping to inadvertently altering a picture of former Virginia governor Mark Warner: “The jacket was charcoal, not maroon; the shirt was light blue, not pink; the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon.” In other words, Warner was clad in his inside-the-beltway dullest. We get it. MORE »


Federal Appeals Court Rules Against the Invasive Probing of American Citizens

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

ridethatpony.jpgIt’s a good thing that we get to enjoy the pony that’s been hidden in slavery, because for the people of Mississippi, it could be a long time before they get to enjoy anything hidden in their vaginas. MORE »


Folks, Meet Your New Catchphrase

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

My-Little-pony.jpgYou know, generally, it’s not worth our time to go after all the insane, barely literate halfwits who write editorials and columns for our nation’s less prestigious papers. ‘Cause, really, it’s shooting fish in a barrel. It’s like sending Robert Christgau to review karaoke night at the Reef. Sure, it’s bad, but who cares — these people are amateurs. But every now and then, one of these lunatics comes up with a column so brilliant, so perfect, so unbalanced, that we must emerge from our decadent coastal enclave and enter the great uncharted middle of the country to bring back to our godless readers the Word. This is one of those columns: MORE »