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Your comments on the phrases used by pilots in announcements were welcome. Opportunities to point out phrases that include excess verbiage abound, but few take advantage of them. You skewered the unreason involved in the terminology of many airline in-flight announcements.
In this story, David Talbot writes "Bess is unnerved by the prospect of Palin -- a woman whose mind is given to dogmatic certitude -- standing one step away from the Oval Office." I find the phrase "dogmatic certitude" an eye-catching improvement over similar phrases such as "closed-mindedness" and "logic-tight compartments." Kudos, Mr. Talbot!
The party on the right in Canada began life as the Tory party. Then it was renamed the Conservative party. Then it was renamed the Progressive Conservative party. Then it merged with the Reform party and the result was the Alliance party. This then went back to being called the Conservative party. Go figure.
As a bipolar addict, I'm a bit miffed over seeing in Salon an article poking fun at another bipolar addict. Where are Salon's "funny" articles about child amputees, thalidomide children, MS sufferers, people with Alzheimer's, and people with Down syndrome? Surely Salon writers can come up with something mirth-provoking in these conditions? These conditions and people suffering from them can use the press!
