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Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Can You Find The Labels?

Continuing our discussion started in Cognomen Label Sobriquet. Stimulus Slush Fund for Housing Entitlement Thugs… From GOPUSA Parroting GOP, Dittohead Limbaugh dutifully launches false ACORN attack……From Media Matters. Gotta go. It’s my day to work the cafeteria at school. Submit your favorite “labeled” headlines in comments.

Cognomen Label Sobriquet

They all mean the same thing: Label. (But aren’t those cool words? Cognomen. Sobriquet. I could be a real word snob. Why don’t we use more words like these?) There is a classic Saturday Night Live bit where Chevy Chase will mutter insults under his breath while talking with or about someone else. “I would like [...]

Becoming Audience

This past Sunday I was attending Sunday School and the teacher was discussing ethics and the issues we face today. He had filled a whiteboard with words and phrases like: reproduction, abortion, education, creation, animal rights, the environment, marriage, crime, punishment, immigration, the economy. He asked if there was anything else to add to the [...]

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